He's honest...he has morals...he's for the people...

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And Republican candidates will walk on water if the right wing says so. What staggers me is how some plain-wrap voters (some of whom, by their own admission, should be voting Democratic) are enthralled by right-wing candidates.

The California recall election, that wingnut money-fueled travesty, is only the latest sideshow to draw out these newly-minted conservatives. The article-clip below is from the good grey New York Times, historically not a Republican rag -- but it gives two stellar examples of average-joe Americans who are perfectly willing to embrace Republican candidates.

How has the Democratic Party abandoned the mailman and the truck driver? What can the Republican Party actually offer middle America, other than illusion?


http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/28/national/28CALI.html

July 28, 2003
The New York Times
California Recall Is Part Vote, Part Spectacle
By CHARLIE LeDUFF
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Among voters, the recall push is a combination of blood sport and entertainment with many lining up behind candidates who have not even announced their intentions.

Alfredo Adkins is a 37-year-old mailman in East Los Angeles who considers himself an average Californian.

"I'm Hispanic, a government employee and a Catholic, the kind who should vote Democrat," he said the other afternoon while working his route. Inside the truck, his lunchbox was visible, decorated with a Bill Simon sticker.

"I'm going for Simon because basically he has morals and faith and he won't follow the crowd," Mr. Adkins said.

Mr. Adkins, a registered Republican, said he backed the recall because he believed the governor mishandled the budget, caved in to the energy companies during the power crisis two years ago and gave sweetheart contracts to municipal employees.

When it was pointed out to Mr. Adkins that he, too, was a government employee, his explanation was at the ready.

"Yes, but everybody needs their mail," he replied.

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"The state's run like a zoo," said Rob Fleming, 43, a truck driver and registered Democrat, as he stood outside the Department of Motor Vehicles in Hollywood on a recent afternoon. He called the fee increases taxation without representation.

"That's why I'm going to go with the Terminator on this one," he said, referring to Mr. Schwarzenegger by one of his movie roles. "He's already got the money. He's not looking to line his pockets. Maybe he's honest. Maybe he's for the people."

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1. Morons

Sorry, but they are. COMPLETE lack of critical thinking skills at play here. Yes, I realize that not EVERYONE is a "sheeple" but it's kind of hard to criticize people using the term when there are people like this out there spouting off this nonsense.

[Trad Bass]

2. So who is in the running?

I know that POS Issa is and am pretty sure that POS Simon is in. Any other notables? The Term? McClintock? Camejo?

[whoYaCallinAlib]

4. Hey Trad Bass

Welcome to DU!

:toast: :bounce: :party: :bounce: :toast:

[Trad Bass]

6. Thanks! Wow!

What a friendly site. Have a good rest of the week, friend!

Trad

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3. It's that moral thing -

repugs seem to have the market cornered when it comes to honesty and morality - "family values" - whatever you want to call it. The religious right have done their job convincing common folk of this - why would any decent, churchgoing man or woman vote for an amoral liberal when the repugs are acting in their best interest?

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5. Yeah, but Simon's moral reputation was laid to waste last November

I mean, I know people have short memories, but my God, that was less than a year ago!

AS for Arnie he's a (former, anyway) pot-smoking furriner!