Survey: #1 Reason Rep's you know wouldn't vote for Kerry

[Laura PourMeADrink]

One I heard the most -- Swift Boat Mess

[Pirate Smile]

1. War protesting after Vietnam. My Dad wouldn't vote for him because of

that. He didn't vote for Bush because "he is dumber than a rock".

I noticed you wrote "Reps". My Dad isn't a Repub, he is an Independent although my Mom says the last Dem he voted for was Johnson. He voted for Perot in 92 and 96, Bush in 2000.

[Karenca]

2. From a Hindi ----Hindu?

Gay marriage and abortion.

Otherwise he hated everything thing else B*sh does, but he said..."I am Hindu"
Wonder why all the killing in Iraq didn't penetrate his turban??

[chappaquadem]

10. It is Hindi

Hindi is a language; Hindu is a religion. When saying "a Hindi," you're saying from "a person who speaks Hindi" (which is only NORTHERN INDIA).

[buckettgirl]

3. A friend of mine said

"There was just something about him (Kerry) that I just didn't like. His policies are alright, but there's something funny about that guy"
I was like WTF!?!?!?! What kinda reason is that for voting for *.

[APizzedOffDem]

4. Nearly everyone I talked to said

I don't trust him.

[nashville_brook]

17. same here

not that they had any reason to back that up

[Stop Shrub]

35. same here

some reasonable people that i respect and love thought of Kerry as a lier and untrustworthy guy for no particular reason. Ironic in that is what i feel most about shrub. I think the problem might not have been that Kerry didn't distinguish himself from bush enough but rather didn't distinguish himself from gore enough...

[prairie populist]

58. swifties, abortion, $87 billion vote n/t

[Dancing_Dave]

5. Some silly misinformed people still love Bush

I still see that around in the Midwest, though it is slowly fading away.

[LisaM]

6. Because they got all their info about him SECOND HAND

When he actually got some air time (i.e., convention, debates) his numbers rose. Looking back, I see he got very little air time at all.

[MelissaB]

7. Abortion

Yeah, I'm in the deeep south. This is the one I hear from my students all the time, and they have to be getting it from their parents.

[LisaM]

9. Do you tell them that abortions have risen under Bush?

I don't know if it would make a difference to them, but it's true.

[Kansas Wyatt]

37. I watched a Catholic Priest on Larry King Before The Election

The Priest tried to point out that abortions declined under Bill Clinton, but they were rising again under George W. Bush. Nobody wanted to know anything about that, and nobody cared at all to mention it again.

[never_get_over_it]

11. So how do these freaks that voted for Bush

because of abortion - feel about killing Iraqi babies both born and unborn....OH MY GOD THIS PISSES ME OFF SO MUCH - pro-life my ass

[bunkerbuster1]

48. C'mon, it's "pro-life" until the baby's born

after that you're on your own. It's the ownership society, stupid.

[never_get_over_it]

62. That's why I call them

pro-birth not pro-life

[lostnfound]

53. Me too -- I know 3 that voted for * based on this alone.

Including one that actively campaigned for Gore but has changed her views since having a child.

[quiet.american]

8. A Vietnam Vet I Know....

... didn't like what he HEARD Kerry said about Vietnam vets after the war... but DIDN'T have a problem voting for AWOL Bush.

[_testify_]

12. Lemme tell ya what I heard at the office on Nov. 1

This is what someone actually told me was his reason to vote for Bush:

Under Kerry, he was afraid that he wouldn't be able to cheat on his taxes. I told him lying and cheating weren't family values but he countered with, "But it IS the American way."

Touche!

[musette_sf]

13. #1, "TERRRRRRR"

#2, "Tax relief"
#3, "USA! USA! USA!"
#4, "Saddam did 9/11"
#5, "TeRAYza's a crazy bitch"
#6, (insert welfare rant here)

[Viva_La_Revolution]

44. ROFLMAO!!

:thumbsup:

[shakerbaker]

14. Lower Taxes, Pro life, Pro gun

And he looks like a Giraffe..:wtf:

[eowyn_of_rohan]

15. Because he is an ungodly, anti-Christ individual !!!!

I ACTUALLY received this email before the election...EXCERPTS only. THis is enough torture for one sitting:
"... the Democrat party stands diametrically opposed to the word of God on every moral issue that is on the table in every election. A vote for Kerry Tuesday is a vote for the ungodly practice of homosexuality, of same-sex marriages, of infanticide, of fetal stem cell research, of keeping God out of our schools and so on.... Kerry is so adamantly in favor of these terrible sins that he passionately, and publicly shakes his puny little fist in the face of almighty God in promoting them. God help this nation if such an ungodly, anti-Christ individual should become our leader!

"... I have always supported for many reasons, but after being there in person and witnessing in person just how passionate, how down-to-earth, how sincere he truly is, I could not help but write this e-mail. President Bush, contrary to all the lies, smut, slander that has been thrown at him, in my opinion, possesses the greatest amount of integrity and character of any president in my time. "

[shakerbaker]

18. grrrrrrrr...

:puke:

[eowyn_of_rohan]

25. LOL!! My sentiments exactly

Freaking GOONS

[Straight Shooter]

33. Oh? I thought Republicans were in favor of infanticide

Seeing as how it's still practiced in China, and Repubs love Wal-Mart, and Wal-Mart gets most of its goods from, well, China.

Ignorance. It's not just for inbreds anymore.

edit: :eyes:

[BR_Parkway]

56. Girl who cut my hair on Monday b4 election was told by her

preacher that she had to vote for *, Kerry was the anti-christ. She knew nothing about the state and local races, wasn't going to vote in any of those, simply the Presidential. Being under the scissors, I was hardly in a position to argue with such sound reasoning as she was using, so I simply smiled and told her the best way to make sure that she got ALL the right ones picked was to just pull the Republican lever, not any of the individual ones - cause the devil had worked on the hearts of those election officials and they had scared good people in with the devil worshipers to confuse god-fearing folks into voting for the devils choices - of course, in NC the only office NOT on the str8 party ticket is President by state law

[TomClash]

16. "I don't like him."

That's what I heard most often.

[Hobbes199]

19. Most of the reps I know...

Voted for Kerry.

[Hobbes199]

29. Mother-in-Law said...

That all Kerry did was bad mouth Bush, and that Teresa just had a bad mouth.

Do the people just not know about the hundreds or globally wrong things he did during his four years? Or do they just not care?

I understand people have different view points on marriage and abortion and crap, but those are moral issues, not political issues. At worst those decisions should be kept for the state, at best they should be kept for the church.

[Digit]

20. Iraq, no WMD,s and then kept lying about it,

At least this is what my big boss said to me.
Felt he could not be trusted so voted straight DEM
for first time in his life.
I let him know it warmed my heart to hear him say that.
He did not share this with hardly anyone but me.
I have a new respect for him now.

[bowens43]

21. because they're dumb asses.

[sunnybrook]

42. most honest answer on here!

I was having breakfast in a diner in the redneck area of town that I live in about a week before the election. There was a table of 3 women nearby. They started talking about the election. They were complaining that so many Democrats were knocking on the door and calling, etc... this one hateful woman started talking about Kerry and his Vietnam Era association w/ Jane Fonda, etc... she turned super hateful and was saying things like Kerry should rot in Hell, etc... (real friendly folks!).. but the most outrageous statement was made by another woman at the table. She said that the country is really in a mess right now and that George Bush made the mess. She reasoned that since it was his mess, he should be given the chance to clean it up! He was in her logic, DESERVING of a chance simply because it was "his mess!" Deep thinkers at the diner that day....

[Turn CO Blue]

22. I heard all the cliches about why to not vote for Kerry

He is a flip-flopper.
He's too rich.
He's a member of Skull & Bones, just like Bush.
He's too liberal.
His wife is a b**ch
A vote for Kerry is a vote for that Michael Moore (that one really gets me going!! Arrrgggh!)


This one was different...He looks too French. (How asinine.)

Anyway, the people really have become sheeple. I can't believe that I can still get this ANGRY over this election.

[Dilligent]

23. Teresa as first lady

I overheard two very senior ladies visiting my Mother actually say this. They said couldn't imagine "someone like that,with no class, representing our country. Laura Bush has so much class".

[sabra]

26. Because he has not guts...

That's what I heard from some. And that B* fights the terrorist that attacked us, like Sadam. hmm....

[genieroze]

36. Oh sure

Mrs Stepford Roboto has SOOoooooo much class. She married a classic ass but that's about it.

[AmyCrat]

24. wishy washy, or a "flip-flopper" n/t

[kerouac]

27. "they're all crooked" n/t

[lizzieforkerry]

28. Zell Miller's speech at the RNC

After he spoke I had two friends call me and ask me how I could vote for someone that wanted to defend us with spitballs. Seriously!!! Another claimed she didn't like Theresa, and another said she only voted for Bush because she thought there was no way he could win and her dead republican father would see who she voted for. These people are f*ing wacko. I don't know why I am friends with them.

[Verve]

30. A Mc 'Donald's employee sweeping the floors in a playland

called him a "baby killer", when his image appeared on the overhead T.V. Boy, did I get into it with her. But, that's another story.

[captain disgruntled]

31. Phone-banking, I heard

"Kerry scares me"

I was like, and * DOESN'T?????

[Pirate Smile]

34. A day or two before the election, there was all this "baby killer" crap.

Where did that all come from? Who was telling people this? I assume some lovely "Christian" churches.

Didn't some teacher tell some little kids he was a baby killer?

In the Newsweek article it said Alexandra Kerry saw some protesters and they called her a baby killer. Was this just the standard Repub crap? How nasty.

[baba]

47. Interesting story

My husband and I were visiting my sister's family in Texas a few years ago. One of my nieces came up to us when we were getting ready for bed. She seemed really upset. She asked us "Why do you like Clinton? He kills babies!" This girl was like, eight years old! My sister vigorously denied that she had ever put that idea into her kid's head, saying she must have heard it from a classmate at school. Scary!

[bunkerbuster1]

50. I believe it was Monday before the election

here in Rednecklandia, the local hate-radio outlet (ok, it's WSB 750 AM) ran an advert informing me that John Kerry "voted for partial-birth abortion six times."

So maybe that's where the "baby-killer" stuff came from.

No, alas, I do not recall for certain who sponsored this ad. Could've been Georgia Right-to -Life.

[Straight Shooter]

32. Hearsay, but a friend of mine said a local church told its congregation

that Kerry is the devil.

Yes, you heard that right. Kerry is the effin' devil. And I guess my response is, of course he is, and he has cursed you and your family with stupidity for the next seven generations.

Still shaking my head at how f*cking IGNORANT some people are.

[Verve]

41. You should tell you're friend that * is the Antichrist.

I wonder if a religious message is the only way to get through their thick evangelical skulls and into their little brains?
Fight fire with fire!

[Straight Shooter]

46. I did, and my friend agrees

But the church to which she was referring will never connect the dots.

[sunnybrook]

43. the "stupidity curse" has become like a plague

so many of our citizens are afflicted with it

[wiggs]

38. My Dad: #1 liberal in senate. n/t

[MarkusQ]

39. Because he wasn't anti-war enough

He was "in the middle" on too many issues for too long, but the worst was the war. There are quite a few Republicans that are not happy about the war -- it's enormously expensive (which irks the fiscal conservatives), it was based on an outrageous set of lies (which still offends the some people's moral sensibilities) and it involves killing a lot of people (I know the media doesn't convey this point well, but there are quite a few people who take "thou shalt not kill" seriously).

Kerry didn't connect with these people until they'd mostly made up their minds.

-- MarkusQ

[RealityCheck04]

40. Liberal Liberal Liberal

If Lieberman and his "Joe-mentum!" had won the nod, some Republicans probably would have crossed over because Joe is a centrist. But Republicans won't vote for a liberal any more than Democrats will vote for a conservative. Clinton got a lot of crossover votes, as would someone similar in the future (Bayh, Richardson, Warner, etc).

[musette_sf]

45. Somehow I just don't see

rallies with 1000s of ppl as far as the eye can see... turning out for Elmer Fudd Lieberman.

IMO he was a drag on the Gore ticket, and will probably get to be the new Norm Mineta for this administration.

Roll over, Joe. Play dead. Good boy!

:spank:

[Pooka Fey]

49. Bush bribed them with a tax cut right out of the gate

[NewYorkerfromMass]

51. Didn't trust him

the 87 billion dollar gaffe didn't help.

[Zookeeper]

52. During my debate with a Repub neighbor....

he admitted that Bush is an idiot, Cheney is a crook and couldn't name ONE GOOD THING that either of them had done...and yet he was still going to vote for them. He made fun of Kerry in rather childish ways (his children made fun of Kerry because he has a long face) and never came up with a serious criticism. As far as I can tell, this guy has a normal I.Q., so I'm still mystified by the whole conversation.

[blranger]

54. A friend from childhood honestly believes that *

is fighting for our freedom. I think she is brainwashed, she never was very smart, great heart though. She grew up trusting everything that was taught to her in church and believes it would be a sin to question God's word, and Bush has God's support.:puke:

[MARALE]

55. Lying emails

Did you notice the amount of emails from the repubs that were spreading lies about Kerry and Bush and the war? Most of the people spreading these believe that forwarding these emails to 10 people in the 5 minutes will earn you entrance to heaven. If not they will go to HELL!!!!

[Laura PourMeADrink]

63. And the dumber people believe EVERY last word

I have seen these hateful things too. A big one was the Heinz wealth one.

[cyn2]

57. It was simple

They always vote to protect their money!

They're related to me, they're not friends!

[Robert Oak]

59. not logical reasons

My parents would say "image" things that had nothing to do with
policy or reality.

I would over and over point out policies of the chimp and the disasters
being caused and it wouldn't matter...

it was like concrete brain of denial all over some "image" perception.

I personally think the Karl Rove propaganda machine successfully
manipulated the Reptilian brain of the American public and hooked
into "something" that caused people to shut down their brains and vote
on whatever this "something" hook was.

My parents are not anti-choice, but do identify themselves constantly
with Republicans...which is amazing because to me, the Republicans
of their generation are now democrats and these Republicans are
radicals out to destroy the country. Nixon looks more like a democrat today.

[selmo7]

60. list of reasons:

"I'm prolife." (meanwhile refusing to engage in a conversation over ANY issue)
and "Kerry flip flops."
and "Kerry is going to ruin small businesses."

another blamed his vote on Clinton's "lying under oath." (to which I think knock knock anybody home in 2004?)

[Royalfred]

61. You don't change Generals

You don't change Generals in the middle of a war.