Another account of Romney driving away a GOP voter!

[Pab Sungenis]

I was at rehearsal last night for "The Importance of Being Earnest" at Cumberland Players. I'm directing the show and my Production Manager is a woman I've known for 20 years. She was my partner Bryan's best friend in college.

We tend not to discuss politics past the local level because she's a lifelong Republican from a Republican family and I've been a confirmed Democrat since working the Mondale campaign in 1984 at the age of 15. We discuss local politics because she and I are the designated shit-stirrers in our respective parties, trying to keep the others honest and true.

During a break in the action last night, I was shocked when she brought up the Presidential race. I tried to steer the conversation back onto safer ground when she said something I never would have expected....

"How can Romney be so stupid?!"

I gaped for a moment and she continued. "How the hell do you expect to win when you go telling 47% of voters that you don't give a shit about them? What kind of an idiot does something like that?"

I made a gentle joke that touched very tangentially on the subject, again trying to steer away from politics but she pressed on.

"That's when I realized that Romney doesn't stand for anything, doesn't mean anything, and is only in this for himself. He's nothing but a self-serving empty suit."

So I guess Gary Johnson won over another vote in New Jersey this week. (I doubt she'd ever vote for Obama.) One more lifelong Republican abandoning the nominee.

It isn't often that you get to see the turning point of an election happen right before your eyes.

[Indpndnt]

1. Nice!

I know someone a bit like this, except that person is also a Log Cabin repub. Absolutely disgusted with Willard and refuses to vote for him. Will write in a candidate, instead.

I'm happy about that, but I still have trouble understanding how a Log Cabin repub can ally himself with the party that wants to literally destroy him. It just boggles my mind, but $$$ and perceived 'freedoms' are more important to him. (As if the TeaNutters want him to have ANY freedoms!) The funny thing is, he took one of those Which Party? quizzes and fell firmly on the Democratic side. He immediately went on a rant claiming the quiz was biased. No, no it wasn't. Drop all of your biases against so many people and issues. Grow. Up.