Pollsters asked the public questions regarding the presidential candidates to determine who’s more of a regular guy — the rich Republican guy who went to Yale or the rich Democratic guy who went to Yale. Some of the poll results:
- Who would you like to flip burgers and have a beer with? 50% Bush, 39% Kerry, 11% undecided
- More voters would choose Bush to run their family business
- Evenly split on who should teach their kids
- Evenly split on who to vote for.
So I just have to know: did the pollsters tell them we were talking about George W. Bush?
Who to flip burgers and have beer with? Well, a guy who nearly chokes to death on a pretzel and face-plants his mountain bike is not necessarily someone I want in charge of the flaming hot grill wielding sharp implements.
But I’m more interested in the undecided votes. More than 1 out of 10 people are going to waffle on a hypothetical BBQ date question? What are they waiting for, more evidence, better research, Faux News to tell them John Kerry threw away the spatula he had used in Vietnam, or maybe a smear campaign from Rush Limbaugh claiming that Kerry used Del Monte ketchup instead of Heinz.
Bush running your family business? This is a guy who has bankrupted every sweetheart business opportunity that’s come his way thanks to his daddy’s last name. He couldn’t find oil in Texas, then gets bailed out only to discover that he can’t find oil in Bahrain either. He fleeced the taxpayers of Arlington to get a publicly-funded stadium for the Texas Rangers. And in his current post, he took a record surplus and made it a record deficit.
Evenly split on who should teach your kids? Is this a misprint? How is this question even close? You’d let the guy who got a gentlemen’s “C”, the guy who regularly mangles the English language (“nu-ku-lar”), you want this guy teaching your kids?
But then again, there’s probably a large voting bloc that is afraid Kerry might teach the kids controversial opinions regarding evolution, global warming, sexual health, tolerance of diversity, respect for human rights, separation of church and state. “Better let Dubya teach the kids so they can say ‘Under God’ in the Pledge of Allegiance!”
Evenly split on whom to vote for? Only because religious fanaticism, economic elitism, thinly-veiled racism, militaristic patriotism, shallow-minded thinking, and rampant homophobia dominate the Flyover States.
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