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vote for Kerry!
It has taken months of giving him bits, showing facts ect, to a guy who gets all his news from NRA magazines and freeper co-workers.
The only reason he's a repub is because he belive(d) the Democrats are only out to destroy the military, take more taxes, ect, you know all the Rush talking points.
My dad's never been a social conservative (he's pro-choice) on gay marriage he says "hell yea it should be legal! why should only straight people suffer?" so at least he supports that albeit in a strange humorous way :)
But after showing him basically that if he truly wants to support the military, if he wants to see the REAL terrorists dead, he better not be bothering with the repugs cause they're essentially too busy protecting them.
Only a week ago he was callimg Micheal Moore "an asshole who should be shot" because of some freeper at his office telling everyone that Moore hates America cause of this movie ect.
Having seen the movie, I gave him a quick summary of it, and he said "oh...well that's not so bad" basically I hammered the point home that the real reason repugs don't want you to see this movie is because it decimates their reputation as being the pro-military, pro-American party. It shows their goldenboy cozying up with the enemy.
Now he tells me he just stays quiet while his freeper co-workers goes on about Moore, and when it comes out on DVD he wants to see it.
So it's been a rollercoaster, but after showing many snippets of Kerry's platform and record and refuting all the "flip flops" my father has now said:
"Well I hope he wins now"
So now when my stepmother (whom I strongly suspect is going to vote for Kerry, she told me so in so many words) my real mother (who told me if I drive her she'll vote heh) my cousin who has never voted before, and of course my converted father..
That's 4 votes towards Kerry in Arizona (swingstate alert) 3 of which would've normally gone Republican.
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