Voter Switches To GOP Cause $800 Pay Cut Left Her Family Better Off....

[KittyWampus]

A fellow DU'er posted this in another thread and it is so dumbfounding I had to give it it's own thread.

Apparently there may be voters who go Republican because their dwindling paychecks and assets force them to "downsize" their own lives.

This leaves me speechless:


Voters such as Gloria Smith explain this political dynamic. While Smith's husband, who works for American Airlines,
recently took an $800 monthly pay cut, the homemaker from Sand Springs, Okla., just changed her voter
registration from Democrat to Republican.

Smith said her family was "better off" than it was four years ago, "because we've learned to live within our means."

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/2004/la-na-oklahom...

[Guaranteed]

1. That's....stupid.

LOL

[Momgonepostal]

9. there's not much to add here

Saying it's stupid says it all...

[okieinpain]

31. oh no, that's oklahoma. I hear it every day folks, every day.

[Worst Username Ever]

2. ...ah..um...wha?

Shows that intelligence is indeed related to political parties.

[Christof]

3. How in the hell are they better off?????

GEEZ! :mad:

[Langis]

4. Those damn democrats!

They make it so those middle class folks have extra money!!

[Vincardog]

32. Those damn democrats!"

They make it so those middle class folks have extra money!!
If that keeps up they will actually be able to buy prescription drugs and feed themselves. What is next Cloths for their kids?

[Rabrrrrrr]

5. "No, my captors are great - they bring me food and water,

let me watch TV, and they even protect me by limiting the shows I watch so I don't see anything dangerous and making sure I don't wander outside where all the scary stuff is."

[MUAD_DIB]

6. Two words describe this phenomenon.....

catastrophic success...

[Maple]

7. There is just

no helping some people.

[Liberal Veteran]

8. Well shit! Let's just reduce her income by 1600 more a month....

...then she'll be three times better off!

[PROGRESSIVE1]

10. WTF???

[calico1]

11. Wow, maybe if they are really lucky

hubby will get another pay cut. Or better yet, get laid off. What morons. Can anyone understand this mentality? Anyone can save money and be frugal, etc. You don't have to have the gov. force you to be that way. What a stupid woman.

[Sandpiper]

12. If less money is better

Then wouldn't that lead to no money being the best of all???

If having less money helps her family "live within their means," then no money at all would help them learn to "live off the land."

Wouldn't it? :crazy:

[aden_nak]

13. That's so stupid I think I may have to injur myself now.

Maybe this woman could send me $800 as well. Think of how much better of she'd be then!

[demwing]

23. Dont Do It!

Some Republican group will claim you've shifted you're health care responsibility into your own hands.

[Cocoa]

14. makes me think of the Will Ferrell ad

Bush's inane reasoning why the lost jobs are a good thing.

www.whitehousewest.com

[displacedtexan]

15. Your link doesn't work.

Can you please fix it?

[liveoaktx]

16. That's totally screwed up! Maybe part of Bush's master plan

make everyone so poor (except, of course, the 2 percent) that they're DAMN HAPPY for the beans and rice they get daily. But, ya know, who can afford to go to Disney World then?

[Rambis]

17. one day I woke up

and I realized I was a dumbass! Cut me a large break.

[Tempest]

18. Link doesn't work

n/t

[Nite Owl]

19. That's like an abused

person saying that they needed that beating.

[eurolefty]

20. another gem

Donna Brazile, who was Al Gore’s campaign manager, recalls going to a focus group with 12 undecided women in the fall of 2000.
...
At the focus group with white women, one woman said that deciding who to vote for was like going to the prom. “Wow,” Brazile thought. That was a new one. The woman continued: Al Gore would bring a corsage, and he would ask her parents’ permission, and he would arrive right on time. George Bush, on the other hand, would show up in a convertible with the top down, and he wouldn’t have checked with her parents. “And I would run right out,” the woman concluded on a note of triumph. Brazile figured Gore wasn’t going to get that vote.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5698295/site/newsweek/

[Bozita]

21. just another failure of NCLB

unbelievable logic

[Skidmore]

22. My husband works with some gonzo who got

$300 back last year and thinks that he's better off cause he got some pocket change to go gamble on a riverboat. He thinks the war stinks but he got $300. Enough for him to vote for Little Boots.

[Walt Starr]

24. If the Stupid people didn't vote, the Republicans would never be in office

The Republicans are dependent upon stupidity and ignorance, why do you think they're anti-school?

[Atman]

25. It is not real...it is the product of a GOP PR guy

No way in hell is this story real. The people might be...but I cannot believe for a minute that this is a real couple who really came forward to tell their story. Using tried and true Limbaughvian tactics (ie: suggestive selling), allow me to tell you how I imagine they came about this quote...

Podunk Intelligencerizer"Mrs. Dumbfuck, we notice you recently changed your voter affiliation to Republican from Democrat. Did the President's sound economic policy and get-tough world leadership win you over?"

Mrs. Dumbfuck "Hell no. The fridge was done broke and like a miracle straight from Jesus Son O' God, we gots us a check in the mailbox fer $300 tax refund...another day without it and Clem's Guinesee woulda got warmed."

PI "That was the President's tax cut, that $300. So you're saying it helped you?"

MRS. D "Clinton done that?"

PI "No Ma'am, the current President is George W. Bush...a strong, decisi..."

MRS. D "Oh...you mean that shitheal in Warshington who sended off all of the yunguns to die in Irak? He done gimme a tax cut of $300, then shipped Clems factory job of to China. Then he took both my boys offen to fight Saddam, who ain't never done a damn thing 'gin me or mine. And the widow Crawley's boy done got both his arms blowed off when his Hummvee ran over a Improvised Shaken Beer Can at his base in Irak...so, I guess, he won't be pawin' at Sweet Loretta anymore. Child's barely old enough for breedin' but thet Crawley boy was gropin' her like he was his own kin or somethin! It was disgraceful!"

PI "And he got his arms blowed...er, blown of in Irak? So he can't bother your daughter anymore, right?"

MRS. D"Hell, arms was just the beginning...he got a schrapnel in his Wee Willie Winkie that makes him look like a lawn sprinkler when's he a peein! I doubt he'll be thinking 'bout the fairer sex anymore, 'ceptin in his dreams."

PI"AH HA! So you'd say you're better off since Bush took office?"

MRS. D "Well sure, we's better off under Bush, but not because..."

PI "That's fine, Mrs. Dumbfuck...we've got our quote..."

[Catherine Vincent]

26. If that's true, how stupid can you get?

[CBHagman]

27. Did you hear that report on NPR's Morning Edition...

...about the CEO who got a $300 million tax cut when his company issued a dividend? Yes, he would have paid $300 million more in taxes had the old laws been in effect when the dividend was paid.

Yet we're supposed to dance around the room for joy because we get a check for $300, or because we pay $50 less a year in taxes, etc.

[Thrill]

28. Can people really be this dumb

OUCH

[RamboLiberal]

29. One of the stupid bible-thumpers - the Lord will provide

Guess they can't figure out "The Lord will help those who help themselves" - by not voting for Bush you morans!

Here's a good link to story.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-oklahoma29aug29,1,6716044.story

[Bad Thoughts]

30. My wife works for American Airlines, took a big pay cut ...

... and we are struggling this year like never before. However, to thank Chimp for fixing the economy (and all the other wonderful things he has done), we will both VOTE FOR JOHN KERRY. AND SHOUT HIS NAME FROM THE ROOFTOPS (too poor to give money).

[Blue_Roses]

33. what has the latimes been smoking lately?

they have been putting out some wing-dingers lately:eyes:

[SemperEadem]

34. what does living within one's means have to do with being a rethug?

it's something they should have been doing all along.

[Jackpine Radical]

35. Anybody wanna move to Oklahoma with me

& start a used car lot that specializes in improving the lives of the citizenry by selling them lemons at inflated prices?