Weird but Good Reep Trend? Anecdotal evidence:

[elehhhhna]

Hubby has lots of loud reeps in his workplace. They've put up signs, speak openly (and belligerently) about Bush being fabulous, etc. They are obviously not attuned to the fact that Hubs and a vast majority of the other top execs (including the very tippy-top ones) are disgusted with Bush & the neofascists--the execs don't talk politics at work--so it's pretty funny and often entertaining.


Five of these "security moms" (ick--the term remids me of "comfort women" but that's another post...) were blabbering in the coffee room yesterday--very loud, very pro-bush, parrotting Rush the oxymoron-- when hubs asked the most obnoxious one if she planned to watch the debates. Of course, all the hens chimed in to emphatically state that their minds were made up so, no. "We know who we're voting for!"

The sheepladies then basically confessed to each other that, lo & behold, NONE of them are registered to VOTE! A couple have moved in the last 4 years (homeownership boom, donthca know?) and never changed their reg.'s. The others had NEVER registered !

The dumb ones are apparently also rather lazy, huh?

Proof that there IS a silver-lining in the black cloud of Reepness.

[fudge stripe cookays]

1. "Voting" is a relative term to them.

They SUPPORT Chimpy. But putting that plan into action may be a little more problematic.

Twits.

This gives me hope.
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[calico1]

3. Its good that they are so confident

they probably think they don't have to vote because Chimpy will win in a landslide.

[Riptide]

2. I remember when I lived in NW Arkansas...

Everyone was a republican, and would tell you about it very loudly. However, very few of them actually bothered to vote.

Let's hope they get a little too confident from all the "polls" showing Bush ahead and stay home on Nov. 2nd.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. YES!

All this polling BS that we are so upset about may have an upside -- the ranting freepers who spend all their spare time praising the Chimpinator to the skies will be so smug and overconfident that they won't think they need to get off their fat asses and actually vote.

Bwahahahaha!

[Ellen Forradalom]

5. From your lips to God's ear

Let it be so.

[NanBo]

6. The sheepladies

probably think they can leave the voting to their husbands :)

[Jackpine Radical]

7. So, by way of comparison...

How many overconfident Democrats do you know?

I've been working with a bunch of (mostly Vietnam) Vets for Kerry who are very active & very fired up, & most of them are working their first Presidential campaign ever. (Not so for me, BTW. I was out there in a big way for McGovern in '72, but haven't done a lot since until this year.)

[fudge stripe cookays]

8. Not many!

But we're in Texas.

Most of my friends are guardedly, cautiously optimistic. Down here, we take anything positive we can get. But we've seen the changes ourselves. And most of them have been good. The membership in Democratic clubs, grass roots organizations etc have jumped off the charts.

Moods vary from day to day. Last week the bumper sticker count was 4:1 Kerry one day; yesterday it was 7:2 Bush. That was depressing.