Good story about friendly democrat

[Minimus]

I live in NC - heavy repub area and I am proudly displaying 2 K/E signs in my yard - one at front of house, one at end of property line by the road. My husband is out working in the yard and about 30 minutes ago a gentleman pulled into our driveway and said he just had to stop and tell us that we are not the only Democrats in the area.

He is a Korean War Vet and he gave my husband a bumpersticker: "Another Vet Against Bush" (my father is a Vet so we will pass it along). He has voted Democrat all his life, even by absentee ballot while abroad.

He has lived in this area a long time, and knows alot of republicans. He said there are alot of "quiet republicans" that are voting for Kerry and he is sure we will win.

He also told a story of a recent conversation he had with a repub acquaintance: he told this person to write down everything Republicans have done for this country and everything Democrats have done for this country. He said the person actually did it and told him he would never vote Republican again!

What a great way to start our Sunday morning. We are canvassing today at 1:30 for Erskine Bowles so we will set off with an even better attitude!

[Infomaniac]

1. Good story.

I like the idea of writing things down. Is there anything the repugs have done for this country? I mean, anything positive?

[mairceridwen]

2. the republican party

was formed in opposition to slavery

Lincoln was a republican.

[HFishbine]

5. Anything

in the last century?

[mairceridwen]

8. prolly not

anything that a democrat or other liberal organization wouldn't have done better

nixon created the EPA, but not out of any great love for the environment

[hyphenate]

6. Lincoln's Republican Party

wasn't ANYTHING like the current repuke party. A great many differences in the hundred years that have come in between. Lincoln's party is a lot closer to the Democratic Party of today than it is to the current, extreme right-wingnut catastrophe that it is today.

[mairceridwen]

9. no shit sherlock

I was just answering the question

[Minimus]

7. And around the time of the civil rights movement

many Southern Democrats became Republicans (Lott, Thurman, etc.) the irony of the racists switching to the party responsible for opposing slavery.

Democrats are responsible for the following moments in history:

Established Federal Reserve Board
Passed the first labor and child welfare laws
Established Social Security
Creation of Medicare
Created the Peace Corps
Passage of the Civil Rights Acts
Passed the Americans with Disabilities Act
Passed the Family & Medical Leave Act

[mairceridwen]

10. dixiecrats

the sad fact is that even Nixon's republican party is nothing (well, maybe a little...but not too much) like Bush's Republican party

I know freepers now who look at those moments as the roots of today's democrat's socialist agenda

Never mind that the Peace Corps is totally implicated in the Westernization of the rest of the world

[Minimus]

12. how many freepers benefit from these "socialist" acts?

I'd say all.

[HFishbine]

3. Whoo Hoo! Another tarheel working hard!

Keep it up. We're making an all-out effort in Guilford County too!

[hyphenate]

4. Excellent!

I only wish that more people had that attitude. I think the part about writing down everything each party has done for the country is a great idea. The only problem is that some people are so ill-informed, they might not be able to fill a list!

[Cha]

11. You've made a great Sunday morning

for me with your story about the "friendly Democrat"!:D

Thanks for all your hard work in North Carolina!

[mairceridwen]

13. anyway,

these are the stories i love to hear

I have a feeling there are quite a few republicans who are really upset at the Bush's LACK of reasonable conservatvism (fiscal responsibililty and restraining goverment power)

I also think that among republican couples/families, at least one or two are voting for Kerry, secretly


I'm craving red meat

[skygazer]

14. Great story

I too like the idea of writing things down. My daughter, I am ashamed to admit, is a big Bush backer. One of the things she keeps yelling about is welfare - she seems to think that the Democrats want to keep people "dependent" and welfare is this great handout for lazy people - you know the drill.

I've tried to point out the fallacy of this and the fact that under Clinton there were fewer people unemployed and so needing welfare but it falls on deaf ears. So finally I wrote to her and asked her one question -

What have the Republican done in the past and in this administration to
get people off welfare
and keep them off welfare

I've heard nothing back.

When you start asking them to put facts in writing, the facts really do become clear.

[CrispyQ]

15. I've found the same with my repub mother . . .

I've asked her to articulate why she dislikes Kerry/dems & she has no reason other than, "I just don't like him/them." I told her that wasn't good enough & until she could answer that question, politics were off limits. Just makes my blood pressure go up to talk to people like that. They hear the media spin & spew it out without investigating it. I can't believe my mother is a sheeple.