Reply #3: I know Richard pretty well, as it happens [View All]

[DFW]

I know, I know, how could I etc etc etc? Just one of those chances Fate tosses
in your path. Richard is totally 180° from me on just about every issue we could
ever discuss, but he really does believe all this stuff, and he is VERY quick on
his feet. I can't get anywhere talking politics with him, and his religion is what
it is.

But one thing he has come to believe of late is that the Republican party no longer
represents conservatism, and he even wrote a book about the Bushies called "Conservatives
Betrayed." If he wants to support a movement that will siphon off votes from the
Republicans this fall, let him. He's no fool. He knows perfectly well what he is doing,
and that he could well contribute to the election of Obama as much as Nader did to Bush.
He just figures that it might be worth it to give the government to the Demcorats for
four years in order to let the right get its house in order--his order, I might add.
He knows (or hopes) that a Democratic administration will be more honest with its fiscal
policy, and that it won't have the time to enact too many progressive social programs
due to current budgetary constraints. The Republicans could then "regain the path," so
to speak, and then get back in to power having discovered their old-time religion.

Much as it might be very un-PC, I will also tell you that he happens to be a hell of
a nice guy, as well as sharp as a whip, which drives me nuts every time I listen to him.
But that's the way it is. I know I'd probably prefer his company to that of some of the
nut-cases I see in GDP. Richard has been around, and "knows when to leave his guns at
the door." In politics, that is an acquired skill, let me tell you.