Republican encounters of the ironic kind

[bleedingheart]

Today I found out that one of my neighbors is a rabid republican.

I was talking with another neighbor (a democrat) when this woman started blathering about how she didn't like to be paying taxes for welfare mothers...blah blah blah...

So I said, "I don't mind paying taxes to help people, but I don't like paying Halliburton and KBR"...
She then blathered back about Kerry and that idiotic SUV story...well then I asked her about Bandar Bush and she started to walk away....

As always I have found that republicans will blather nonsense but they won't answer real questions... so she will be outraged by Kerry and the SUV story but run away from the fact that Bush is so friendly with Bandar....ah the irony...

To top it off she holds a minimum wage job, she lives with her parents and while there is nothing wrong with that...she somehow thinks that the republican party is going to help her. She told me that the people who don't take "charity" are good people...but then bitches that their lives are harder as a result....(People who use the CHIP program, and subsidized day care are worthless slobs in her book)
I marvel at the stupidity of this argument...everyone pays taxes...even the poor...and why not take advantage of programs to help themselves????? Where is the honor in letting your kids starve? Where is the honor in suffering for no reason??? If the state offers a program why not use it...your paying for it...

As an aside this rabid republican family has the honor of having the most neglected home in the neighborhood. Their shutters are in varying states of falling off (some are just lying on the ground)..a broken down car in the driveway... 3 foot high weeds everywhere...and all kinds of debris and garbage...ah I bet the Bushes would love for them to move in next door up in Kennebunkport...they would just fit in just fine...in fact I would love for them to move...perhaps someone who would take care of the property would move in...

[bossfish]

1. She probably won't vote...

would probably interfere with her appearance on Jerry Springer.

[bleedingheart]

3. actually I have worked the polls for the past four years and I have

never seen here there...so to some degree I doubt she votes.

[DAGDA56]

2. Since I've never understood why anybody making less than...

...six figures a year would be a Republican, I don't understand your neighbor. I sometimes think it's some "wildcard" factor...religion, a misplaced sense of morality or thinking that if they identify with the very wealthy, they will become wealthy too. Or, at least not as pitiful as they are.

[bleedingheart]

4. one funny thing is that she is pro-choice...which is why

she was blathering on about not paying for other people's kids...


on edit: I agree with you...not sure why people in the low income brackets vote against themselves...

[Reverend_Smitty]

5. My dad is the same way

He is a single father with a kid in college (me) making around 30,000 a year, somehow he thinks that the Republicans are better for him then the Dems. I guess somewhere deep inside he still believes the bull-shit of trickle down economics. I just can't talk politics with him anymore. He just keeps on talking about the welfare queens taking all the money if the dems are in control, but what he doesn't realize is that hes much closer to the welfare queens (in tax bracket) than the Ken Lay types!!! I just want to scream sometime!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[bleedingheart]

8. I call that affluence by association

people think that voting republican somehow elevates their status in life...

[Reverend_Smitty]

9. Sad thing is...

as soon as I graduate from college (even as an undergrad, but I'm going to grad school) I could very easily be making at least 10,000 more than him. And I'm a true blue liberal. I think there is just no reasoning with some people

[bleedingheart]

10. I agree...I would rather register new voters than try and convert

the unconvertable....it is just a waste of time.

Also I think that no one likes to think that they have been wrong

[JayS]

6. Is that rabid...

...as in like...foam? :)

[bleedingheart]

7. almost...

although it might be the foam from the beer she was drinking ..she even crushed the can in front of me as some sort of vapid intimidation technique when I mentioned Bush's connections to Saudi Arabia....

[nonconformist]

12. She sounds classy! nt

[Wapsie B]

11. I think part of this mentality

is sometimes called modeling by the self-help gurus. To them, if someone wants to become wealthy they need to find a person that is already wealthy and "model" or imitate what this person does. Some of these poor working stiffs believe that if they model well enough and long enough riches will be bestowed on them also.