I don’t believe anyone that mines coal would vote for Obama. I would be surprised.
What an idiot....the folks in VA and NC who aren’t melanin enriched and don’t support Romney are not native
They are the usual scourge ...northern libtards or Kali libturds
That is what killed Florida
While Australia may have a number of rough outbackers, I doubt that they have any clue about US southern and mountain folk, or that the south was traditional Democrat back in the OLD KKK Byrd days, but no longer.
The yellow dog democrats have died off, leaving the party to the blacks.
Kee Ran?
Seriously?
Not buying it.
Australia is in the thrall of the unions, to a degree that would be unfamiliar to most of us in the the US. That said. we’re the ones who elected Obama.
This article is just a slur piece against Romney, entirely concocted. It could just as well have been titled “Obama Struggles to get Hillbilly Vote”. But the author want to portray “hillbillys”, i.e. ignorant yahoos, as the natural electorate of Republicans.
Since when?
Hillbillys have traditionally been Democrats, to the best of my memory. I can recall when the West Virginia primary was a must-place-well for any Democrat aspirant to the presidency.
I live in a very rural county in southeastern TN, right along the edge of the mountains. Though most folks around here may not be all that excited about Romney, he’ll win this county hands-down. Too many are more concerned about what will happen to this country if we have 4 more years of The Occupier in the WH. Almost everyone who has walked into our Republican Women’s headquarters for signs, buttons, etc. has said they are scared to death by the thought of Obama being re-elected.
We’ve also given out a lot of voter registration forms. Some to folks who have recently moved to the area and some to folks who just haven’t bothered to vote in the past but are determined to do their part to boot Obama out this year.
One old feller in bib overalls showed up last weekend and said he’d always voted demoncrat but not this time. He walked out with an armload of Romney/Ryan signs, t-shirts, and buttons and a big smile on his face.
No struggle for Romney to get the hillbilly vote in my neck o’ the woods. :-)
So the hillbillies are clinging to their guns and their God and...Obama? If true we’re totally screwed.
What a crock! Why do people that don’t live here continue to spread this kind of trash? I don’t know anybody personally that eats possum or lives in a home with no utilities and a dirt floor. I know there are poor people here that live on Welfare but there are people like that all over. People that don’t live here don’t know what they are talking about. We HAVE moved into the 21st century. Southerners are the friendliest people you will ever meet. The Southern culture is the best anywhere. Tennessee does have the road kill law but that means that if you hit a deer on the road out of season that it is legal for you to pick it up and have it processed without fear of being fined rather than leave it to rot. It’s a good law but of course people that don’t live here intentionally take it out of context.
About the only thing I can say is that this reporter must have talked to the “hillbillys” that are on TANF, EITC, Section 8, WICs, EBT, etc. In my little north Georgia county, we have a lot of them, but they are still outnumbered 2 to 1.
I worked as a poll clerk for several years and the elections always went conservative here, even in 2008. We have “hills”, and we have “billys, billybobs, and billyjoes” but not all that many “billyBaracks.”
They're all over the damn roads....in pieces....with nuts rolling around nearby.
I guess they get all excited and just run into the road.
I hate the sound of thump, thump in the morning. Evening...not so much...
Mr. Hines
I don’t have an “Obama Phone” so I can’t call ya.. But, if I did, I’d tell ya that the hillbilly vote will go overwhelmingly for Romney. How do I know? Unlike you, I am a hillbilly from the South and I know just how much Obama is despised and is held in deep disdain down here.
Most Southern hillibilies like myself have nothing but contemp for Barry. We are smart enough to see the charlatan for what he is....A FRAUD!
But, being that we aren’t as “ENLIGHTENED” in the ways of ignorance, stupidity, liberalism, and communism as you nitwits in the press, we don’t expect you to understand.
Anything else I can “DO FER YE”?
Ya’ll come back now...ya hear....!
I was born and raised in Kentucky and never heard of anyone eating roadkill in my life. Why eat roadkill when you can open your back door and shoot dinner? My sister’s Thanksgiving invitations always conclude with the statement “Bring a gun, we’ll kill something and eat it”.
Oh for God’s sake!
You don’t eat road kill. And yes, us country folks, hillbillies, piney woods folk, rednecks, crackers, whatever you want to call us, know this.
You hunt and kill critters yourself, or a trusted friend does and gives you the meat.
Anything found dead stays out of the pot unless you want to die.
I doubt sqaushed possums: bones broke and splintered, guts and brains mashed in with the meat and hair, would make an appealing meal to anyone except the near-to-death starving.
We’re in a small town in eastern Tennessee. The guy who does our pest control is someone people might consider to be a hillbilly due to his walk, talk, mannerisms, etc. Last month when he was here I was watching a clip on Fox News and he stopped for a minute to watch.
The interviewer asked Hussein something about his biggest mistake. Like a switch was flipped, the guy began a barrage of “his biggest mistake was being elected!”, and so on. He said he figured Obama lit the fire under the demonstrations in Egypt and elsewhere in the middle east. He said he’s tired of working his butt off to get by so the losers can get their food stamps, free phones, etc. (And he does work hard and long). He went on and on. Very informed and very angry. A “hillbilly” ... and Romney will not have to struggle to get his vote.
He is no dummy....his article is a carefully-crafted piece of socialist-based, pro-Obama propaganda designed to leave the impression that the average southern voter is a neanderthal, racist, white, Christian hick that will go to the polls to vote for Romney while tasty road kill is simmering on his wood stove back in his cabin.
"Buzz" words and phrases are regularly employed by writers. Buzz words by definition are designed to evoke emotional responses, good or bad, in the reader. Here's some of the buzzes carefully and craftily placed in the above article:
".....dead possums litter the road"
".....Bernie Smith hurls the corpse into the back of his truck"
".....One man's detritus (organic, decaying waste) is another man's feast"
".....barbeque squirrel, bear meatloaf and grilled porcupine skewers"
".....rural, white Christians
".....Mr. Smith, who pronounces the Islamic holy (holy?) book 'key-ran' "
".....with his wife and a small pig on a leash"
".....as she sauteed wild deer for her deep-fried venison balls"
".....the winner of the Miss Road-Kill Contest"
Well, now, if you don't have a definitive mental image of the average white southern Romney voter after reading the above article, you never will.
If you do, the writer has accomplished his mission.
You are only normal if you're a northern white wine and quiche consumer....and if you're a sophisticated, cool Obama voter.
Leni
Is the dead possum vote related to the dead cat bounce?
(I'm not so sure this would be the case if Hildebeast were running, though)
Trying to get the hillbilly vote...is that a leftist racial slur by any chance - like Obama trying to get the n!@@er vote and the wetback vote? Socialists are so predictable.
The fact that they start out with a lie is a reliable indicator that the rest of what they write is crap also.
First, people don’t eat road kill. Few eat possums and those that do simply shoot them or trap them. They’re not hard to find.
Second, drive through West Virginia, Romney is a lock and INEC.