overheard today in north carolina

[Minimus]

I went to the local kmart to pick up prescriptions and I heard 3 guys, one older(60's) kmart employee, one younger kmart employee (20's), and one younger (20's) citizen all talking about Kerry and how they can't wait to cast their vote for him. They were discussing his speech about Cheney's 5 deferments. They really lambasted Dick!

Living in a small town in NC I am surrounded by Southern Baptist Repubs. and I usually get stares (glares) and scoffs at my K/E lapel pin and bumper sticker.

So hearing some fellow Kerry supporters was great!!

[Tangledog]

1. That's good news

It's interesting how they picked up on Slick Dick's 5 deferments.

I'm wondering... Do other DUers like Cliberty who live in conservative regions remember public sniping of this order at other Republican candidates, like B* 41, or Bob Dole? Or is the B/C team unique in the amount of abuse it gets from its supposed ideological soulmates?

[AmerDem]

2. These very well could have been the 'unlikely voters" that..

most polls fail to figure into their results.

[StClone]

3. When I am at work

One of my co-workers and I often carry on a loud anti-Bush, pro-Kerry/Edwards conversation well within earshot of people going by. The company has no policy against it and we haven't been hassled yet!

[Katherine2]

4. I live in Orange County, CA

which is very Republican. Once I was in the mall and I overheard two women speaking quietly to each other about what a mess this country is in with Bush, etc. I was looking at them, and they got this deer in the headlights look. I said "No, I agree with you. I just never hear talk like that around here." They ended up hugging me.

[Piperay]

6. A few weeks ago I went to the Orange Co Fair

and after passing the repuke booth with my nose in the air I heard some woman saying as she passed, "I am so sick of this republican shit that I could just puke". LOL :bounce:

Also I went to the Sawdust Festival in Laguna Beach and saw many many Kerry bumperstickers. I know that Laguna Beach is an artist community but I saw the stickers along the way as I went from Los Angeles Co (where I live) to LB. :-)

[Katherine2]

8. Cool.

I have a Kerry sticker on my truck, and I haven't had any trouble. Last time I was getting flipped off and called nasty names so often with my Gore Lieberman sticker I finally wimped out and just took it off. Although when I had Anyone But Bush on my last car I did get keyed. But I see about half and half Bush and Kerry stickers around here, and I know so many Republicans voting for Kerry.

[henslee]

7. OC... home of the electric guitar, punk rock and Phillip Dick!!!

[Katherine2]

9. Who's Philip Dick?

But Rage Against the Machine is from Irvine, where I live. And Stone Temple Pilots are from Huntington Beach, where I used to live. But my son's high school is full of geeks who wear George Bush t-shirts.

[henslee]

10. The father of cybepunk. Many of his books have been turned into movies.

Bladerunner/Total Recall. He had a distinct paranoid vision of the future, much of it proven true. Very appropriate for the times we live in. Maybe its more of a guy thing. Either way, your son probably knows him. Poor Phillip died in the eighties.

[against all enemies]

5. When ever I am out shopping and people talk about why their jobs

suck, I always tell them that there are plenty of other jobs available, and I know it because it was on TV. ALL of them laugh because they know there are no jobs and the crap on TV is just lies.

I doubt they will vote for W.