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Meet the persuadables
St. Petersburg Times ^ | October 10, 2004 | BILL ADAIR

Posted on 10/10/2004 1:11:23 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

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1 posted on 10/10/2004 1:11:23 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Call me reactionary, but if you are undecided at this point, can we sterilize you so that you don't spread your gene pool any further?


2 posted on 10/10/2004 1:16:03 AM PDT by Clemenza (Still waiting in vain for a savior to rise from E Street)
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To: Clemenza

I would go with that.... rather than undecided, could we just go with the term morons?


3 posted on 10/10/2004 1:34:30 AM PDT by billphx
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
If you don't stand for anything... you'll fall for anything.

I much prefer someone who is openly partisan, even if they are on the opposite side of me- at least I know where they stand.

These mushy-middle characters will stab you in the back, every single time- you can't depend on them.

4 posted on 10/10/2004 1:35:44 AM PDT by backhoe (Just a Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the Trackball into the Dawn of Information...)
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To: Clemenza
Having everyone chomping at the bit for your vote must give them grand feelings of being the arbiter of this election and so they must be oh so very, very studious about their decisions.
5 posted on 10/10/2004 1:35:59 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: backhoe
.....These mushy-middle characters will stab you in the back, every single time- you can't depend on them.

Absolutely!

It's galling.

6 posted on 10/10/2004 1:37:13 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

People like this are good arguments against univseral suffrage. I don't mind people who have conviction, misguided as they may be, but I can't stand people who have "too much else to do" voting on election day. Let those of us who pay attention decide.


7 posted on 10/10/2004 1:52:25 AM PDT by HarryCaul
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
They must be in the sKerry camp.

He can't make a decision either!

8 posted on 10/10/2004 1:52:50 AM PDT by LADY J
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I was going to say they are a perfect match for sKerry; the both "waffle" alot.


9 posted on 10/10/2004 2:03:21 AM PDT by clee1 (Islam is a deadly plague; liberalism is the AIDS virus that prevents us from defending ourselves.)
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To: HarryCaul

If the race wasn't so close, these people wouldn't be given the time of day.


10 posted on 10/10/2004 2:06:12 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: clee1

LOL,"the wafflers"


11 posted on 10/10/2004 2:09:00 AM PDT by MEG33 (John Kerry has been AWOL on issues of national security for two decades)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
One day we're voting for Bush and the next day we're voting for Kerry

These people are worse than just mushy undecideds. They are holding this election and our future hostage. Do they realize this? Do they understand that this country's future is on hold, awaiting the decisions of 10% of the electorate? Maybe they are just ignorant dupes. Maybe they are limelight lovers. Whichever, they need to be slapped into reality. We do not have the luxury of entertaining fools in this present dangerous world.

12 posted on 10/10/2004 2:12:08 AM PDT by small voice in the wilderness (Quick, act casual. If they sense scorn and ridicule, they'll flee..)
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To: small voice in the wilderness

It's because the race is so close, they can garner this attention.


13 posted on 10/10/2004 2:13:33 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: backhoe

You remember Lincoln's statement that you can fool some of the people all of the time. Well these are those people.

My guess is that there is an adapted genetic reason for people like this to exist.

Assuming that humans and our evolutionary predecessors were all social creatures, sometimes it was necessary to persuade one or several to be guinea pigs.

Either to see if there was a bear in that cave, or how deep the water was, or whether that berry was poisonous, it was probably useful to have bumpkins who you could talk into just about anything.


14 posted on 10/10/2004 2:19:20 AM PDT by Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit (Politically, Saudi Arabia is 18th century France with 16th Century Spain's flow of gold and no art)
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To: backhoe; Cincinatus' Wife

Whatever happened to common sense in this nation let alone ohio this is my state and these people scare the hell out of me !

If they aren't smart enough to have made a firm decision by now maybe they just shouldn't vote at all whats their life like with such undecision must be hell choosing between pepsi and coke !


15 posted on 10/10/2004 2:20:58 AM PDT by ATOMIC_PUNK (Want to know why I don't vote Democrat?" http://www.museumofleftwinglunacy.com)
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To: Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit
Either to see if there was a bear in that cave, or how deep the water was, or whether that berry was poisonous, it was probably useful to have bumpkins who you could talk into just about anything.

I have the sinking feeling that you may be right.

16 posted on 10/10/2004 2:25:25 AM PDT by backhoe (Just a Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the Trackball into the Dawn of Information...)
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To: Clemenza

ROTFLOL These people are beyond help, and how the media panders to them by telling them how important their vote is, is ridiculous. I say they should ALL stay home from the polls and better luck in the next presidential election. In 4 years perhaps they will have been able to make up their "minds."


17 posted on 10/10/2004 2:29:49 AM PDT by Libertina (10 Little Lying MSM Networks. CBS & ABC went down, soon there'll be none!)
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK

I call these people sheep. problem is they don't seem to get that JFK is a wolf in sheep's clothing.

Of course this is a LITTLE out of context but the bible's sentiment on these matters is interesting...
Jesus said, "I know all the things you do, that you are neither hot nor cold. I wish you were one or the other! But since you are like lukewarm water, I will spit you out of my mouth!"

James said, "A double minded man is unstable in all his ways."


18 posted on 10/10/2004 2:29:57 AM PDT by applpie
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Mood ring moderates. I despise them.


19 posted on 10/10/2004 2:35:50 AM PDT by small voice in the wilderness (Quick, act casual. If they sense scorn and ridicule, they'll flee..)
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To: small voice in the wilderness
Mood ring moderates

Great description.

20 posted on 10/10/2004 2:37:02 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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