Two bumper stickers in Dallas and a long phone conversation ...

[DemoTex]

First, the bumper stickers, sighted in Highland Park a few minutes ago near Highland Park Village and the Dallas Country Club:

On a white Lexus SUV (the smaller one):
THIS COUNTRY NEEDS WESLEY CLARK

On a Mazda hatch back with a SMU student parking sticker:
McCAIN, NOT BUSH!

When I got back home the phone was ringing. It was an old friend and neighbor in Houston. He has a PhD in Economics and is a very successful venture capitalist. He was a Ray-gun man, a Poppy-Bu$h man, supported the Chimp for GovTex, and voted for the Chimp for president. My friend raved and ranted for over 30 minutes about how fed-up he and all his friends are with Junior Bu$h, the PNAC cabal, and the GOP for letting it happen. My friend says we are totally fucked if Bu$h gets a second term. He is pissed about the deficit spending, the idiocy of the tax cuts, the blatant illegality and immorality of the war, and the level of propaganda from Karl Rove. My friend is an ABB man now.

Then my friend, who still lives in Houston, got started on Toxic-Tom Delay. The reason no one runs against Tom - and a good Democrat could beat him, according to my friend - is that people are afraid of him. Good people are afraid to run against such a pathological thug.

I asked,"Do you mean they are afraid of getting Baxtered?," in a reference to Enron's Cliff Baxter; a reference I didn't need to explain.

"Exactly," said my friend.

[wryter2000]

1. Wow

Lately, everyone has at least one story like this. I personally know three people who voted for him and will never, ever, ever do it again. One staunch conservative who says, "Shame on him if he even runs."

[soup]

2. Can you imagine seeing those stickers

a year ago today?

[Bronco69]

3. That being said...

Do you think there might be a chance that bush* can lose Texas in the general election? I'm in Dallas too and I hear a lot of people talking about not voting for him again. Maybe we have a chance?

[DemoTex]

6. Naw, he'll take Texas if he is still on the ticket.

And he will be on the ticket.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

8. I'm new to TX

I was wondering what the % breakdown for the Shrub vote last election was? I don't expect TX to go Dem, but if we "stole one" here, like if Repubs stole CA or NY, it would be a lock...

[kentuck]

4. I don't know who else he can blame for letting Bush in ????

Is he going to blame Democrats for not getting enough people out to beat him? We tried but the Supreme Court intervened. I don't recall hearing a lot of Repubs speak up at that time. If they voted for him, they have no one to blame but themselves.

[DemoTex]

5. He blames himself.

He was quite straight forward with that. "What the fuck was I thinking," were his exact words when talking about his votes for Bu$h.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

7. In Highland Park! Wow

This is good news...

Sure haven't seen this in Plano yet.

Going to the Clark meetup in Plano tomorrow. Keep up the good fight all.

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