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I live in a hardcore, heavy-duty, defense-industry-driven republican stronghold. My local paper is filled daily with letters to the editor. Praising Bush, blasting everybody else. If you want to hear the worst neocon excess, don't bother with free republic. Just pick up my local paper.
Today, I was graced with this letter; it was long, so I'm snipping to the big point. I'd include a link, but my local paper doesn't include letters to the editor on its website.
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I have never voted for a Democrat for president in my life, but this time any opponent of the president will get my vote, even an Al Sharpton. This is only due to our president's thoughtless and needless risking of the lives and families of our military and countless other innocent lives that created even more enemies for us in the future.
It is the conservatives who vote for restrictions of individual freedom like same-sex marriages, abortions, euthanasia, drug use or obscene language, but they do not vote to ban glorification of violence in print or movies, and, in this case, we're first in war.
I think this irrational war is going to be the defining issue of the coming protest election. George W. created his own enemies. May they overcome him, albeit too late.
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