BluePhantom
Educator (of liberals)
- Nov 11, 2011
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I will never understand why a fair minded american would vote for a candidate with such a vegetable personality,no charisma and can't speak to an audience without cue cards? (I just like using the cue card example)..look at Newt, he never stumbles,pauses,stammers,,,he just answers the questions and the answers are short and right to the point,,,,why does Obama take 3 to 5 minutes to answer a simple question?
Well some people are just completely entrenched in their partisanship. I see this a lot in my classroom. Students (from both sides of the aisle) will just screech about the other party and then argue the positions of that party with incredible passion. I recall one student specifically whose favorite phrase was "Republicans are evil". She said it daily. Yet when we discussed policy she always argued in favor of the Republican position. I finally asked her why she hated Republicans so much and she said that she was raised to be a Democrat and taught as a child that Republicans are akin to Satan. Then when we sat down and I showed her that her opinions were in fact Republican positions she almost had a coronary. When she admitted that her parents had taught her to hold those positions I made the point: "guess what. They are Republicans too". Despite that she claims to have voted for Obama despite being against his positions because as she said "Republicans are evil".
Well shit.....what are you going to do about that? This woman is probably going to go her whole life voting for people that hold contrary positions to her beliefs and then she will be furious when things don't go the way she believes they should.
Well all you can do with someone like that is shrug your shoulders. BTW..it's precisely that type of person that politicians love because they can do whatever they want and still get their vote.