Another Turning Point for my RW father

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So you may recall, a few weeks ago I posted about my dad saying he would give Al Gore a chance and vote for him if he runs in '08. My dad has voted Republican in every presidential election since he's been eligible - starting with Nixon '68. Though not a wacko or a religious nut, he is predictably RW, especially on national security and social welfare types of programs. He cries when he hears the national anthem. He taught me the names of the entire Reagan administration when I was four, and how to properly burn a flag that has touched the ground. He was in the Army Reserves for 25 years, and state law enforcement for 22. He's a non-churchgoing Baptist and member of the NRA. He has a Confederate flag tattooed on his arm (though, in his defense, he is not a bigot - he got it when he was like 21 and now regrets it). And, he's a fifth generation Texan.

And today, talking to him on the phone, after he watched the Sunday morning political shows, as he has every day of my entire life, he says to me, "I've decided something, and I want to tell you about it. I'm tired of all this crap, and though I agree with some of the Republican foreign policy more, I don't want to vote for this crew who do nothing expect enrich themselves and their cronies, while ignoring the rest of us. I'm voting straight ticket Democrat."



:wow:

:headbang:

:kick:

Then he told me, even though I am a nonpracticing Catholic atheist Taoist, to be sure and go to church today. So I promised I would go and pray for him to continue with his epiphany and keep voting Democrat.