Posted on 09/21/2004 2:08:14 PM PDT by churchillbuff
Hmmm. RVs --- rolling thunder for the GOP? The Dems have the Hells Angels, the Republicans have the Righteous Retiree Road-Warriors?
My wife's folks sold theie California home and became RVers 18 months ago. Guess where they are right now? South Dakota. This is real. And of course they vote Republican.
Two more for Thune!
Maybe we can ship enough retirees to South Dakota part-time, to overcome the Dems' ghost voting on Indian reservations?
All of us have to live with Tiny Tom.
Strange they don't sound worried about the snowbirds that flock to Florida each winter. Many are registered to vote in Florida and their home state.
KERRY'S FINGER
June 02, 2004
www.washingtontimes.com
"Democratic senator — and certain presidential nominee — John F. Kerry, gave the middle finger to a Vietnam veteran at the Vietnam Memorial Wall on Memorial Day morning," NewsMax.com reported yesterday.
"Ted Sampley, a former Green Beret who served two full tours in Vietnam, spotted Kerry and his Secret Service detail at about 9 a.m. Monday morning at the Wall. Sampley walked up to Kerry, extended his hand and said, 'Senator, I am Ted Sampley, the head of Vietnam Veterans Against John Kerry, and I am here to escort you away from the Wall because you do not belong here.'
"At that point, a Secret Service officer told Sampley to back away from Kerry. Sampley moved about 6 feet away and opened his jacket to reveal a HANOI JOHN T-shirt," NewsMax reported.
"Kerry then began talking to a group of schoolchildren. Sampley then showed the T-shirt to the children and said, 'Kerry does not belong at the Wall because he betrayed the brave soldiers who fought in Vietnam.'
"Just then, Kerry — in front of the schoolchildren, other visitors and Secret Service agents — brazenly 'flashed the bird' at Sampley and then yelled out to everyone, 'Sampley is a felon!'
"Kerry was referring to an incident 12 years ago when Sampley confronted Sen. John McCain's chief aide, Mark Salter, in a Senate stairwell after McCain repeatedly offended POW families at a Senate POW hearing. Sampley, whose father-in-law at that time was MIA in Laos, followed Salter into the stairwell and, when they emerged, Salter had a bloody lip and a broken nose."
Bad news for Daschle, I'd say.
What do they mean "they vote but they don't have to live with it".
We are talking about a Senator. What the voters of one state do we all have to live with!!!!
Unfortunately, currently my state has two DemonRat Senators, but hopefully Mel Martinez will start the correction process....
Check out the website www.swingvoter.com
They represent the other side, and advocate students, retirees, etc. registering in the swing state, where their vote will help Kerry the most, not necessarily in their home state.
Are we faring better among RVs or LVs?
that's interesting.
What is it with midwesterners and RVs? I've spent most of my life in the NYC area and don't know ANYONE who has owned an RV, even in suburbia.
Not just the midwest. I read that Justice Clarence Thomas owns one and spends much of the summer driving the country, staying in RV parks - and generally getting out among common-sense salt-of-earth Americans, and away from the arrogant eggheads of D.C. and Northern Virginia.
We like driving around in our living room.
5 years ago, a pair of our customers set out to be road warriors. South Dakota registration, driver's licenses -- they maybe spend two weeks a year in that state. They'll likely be voting, and they're both rabid Daschle fans.
Wonder if their absentee ballots have arrived yet.
Tom Daschle is certainly someone I would relocate to SD for - just for the mere pleasure of voting against.
We used to own one. We live in Florida, and we're far from being retired. It was an easy way to take Civil war battlefield trips with a very young child.
But I can't imagine living in one.
People out here in Washington are shocked that I have never gone "camping," unless you count the time I slept in Central Park.
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