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Posted on 11/01/2004 5:45:25 AM PST by SolutionsOnly
Some left-leaning Californians say they would rather leave the United States -- and go to Canada or elsewhere -- than stay with George W. Bush as president.
''I certainly don't love the climate of Vancouver, but I love the sanity,'' said Steve Crawford, 54, a singer and actor working as a volunteer at the Democratic Party offices in Santa Monica.
He and his wife, Karen, have been investigating selling their home in Pacific Palisades, an upmarket area close to the coast, and moving to Canada.
''For someone like me, if this happens, I can't in good conscience allow myself to support another Bush government, even benignly. And a lot of other people are saying the same.
''I have a good friend who is adamant he will leave if Bush is re-elected. He's picked two countries and will definitely go to one should this happen.''
In the heavily Democratic state, famous for its Hollywood- and San Francisco-inspired latte liberal politics, such talk has become increasingly common at Starbucks and at dinner parties.
At first, the threat was little more than a joke. Now, on the eve of one of the most polarized elections in recent history, some say they really do intend to leave should ''the worst'' occur.
There seems little doubt Californians will deliver the state's valuable 55 electoral votes to the Democratic candidate. In a poll on Friday, Mr. Kerry had a seven-point lead statewide, with a 24-point lead in Los Angeles county and a 35-point lead in the San Francisco Bay area.
But fear at what may happen in the key swing states of Ohio, Florida and Pennsylvania has led to an escalation in coffee-shop chatter about emigration to Canada, Britain and elsewhere.
''Do you think Great Britain would give us political asylum?'' a woman in Starbucks asked. ''It's just ... I don't think I can stay if Bush wins again.''
Mr. Crawford said it would be a difficult decision to move his nine-year-old son from his elementary school. ''But if I feel he's going to be living in an environment that's not safe for him, then I will do it. First and foremost I'm a dad.''
Gretchen Witte, 35, from Alhambra, east of Los Angeles, who runs her own Internet business, is making plans to move to London, where she previously lived for eight years, should Mr. Bush win.
''As a woman, the current climate is becoming intolerable. Bush has just appointed a man to the FDA reproductive health panel who believes that women with medical trouble should pray to Jesus for relief. If this is what America is becoming, I cannot live here. The only reason I can sleep at night is the thought that I can leave the country if he wins.''
Robert Boleyn, a 35-year-old independent consultant from Los Angeles, says he hears people ''all the time' 'saying they will emigrate if Mr. Bush wins.
''But I think it's often more a measure of frustration with the last four years than a real intention to leave,'' he added.
Voluntary exile as a political statement is nothing new. Democrat-supporting celebrities have a habit of making (usually empty) threats to leave should the election not go their way. Robert Redford, a vocal critic of Mr. Bush's policies, was reported this month to have vowed to move to Ireland, where he owns homes near Dublin, if Mr. Bush is re-elected. Before the 2000 poll, Alec Baldwin's then wife, Kim Basinger, told Germany's Focus magazine the actor ''might leave the country if Bush is elected ... and then I'd probably have to go, too.'' Mr. Baldwin did not leave.
The only public figure to carry out his promise was Pierre Salinger, the White House press secretary during the Kennedy administration, who died last month. Before the 2000 election, he said: ''If Bush wins, I'm going to leave the country and spend the rest of my life in France.'' He did.
Speaking of stupid DUmmiecrats, I have a question one asked. He doesn't understand why Republicans would vote for Bush after "starting a war with 100,000 civilian casualities" (his statement, not mine). I would say that there are casualties in war, but I think his brain my explode with trying to process that information.
"How's about if we declare that the UN must become truly a world organization. As such, their HQ must move every five (10?) years to a new location."
They ought to move their headquarters to Lagos, Nigeria. They could teach even those scammers and spammers a thing or two about corruption!
Here's a place to start planning.... VanLines.com
Doesn't the public have to know who somebody is for them to be celebrities?
I hope they do go, by way of a concrete submarine
The reason boils down to one reason
M O N E Y
That's the latest Big Lie from the Euro-elites, in the form of a "public health study" reported in the Lancet, a once-respected British medical journal and now, obviously, a terrorist propaganda outlet. Incredibly, the Lancet derived that figure by comparing the Saddam regime's pre-invasion statistics on violent death with the Lancet's own statistics for post-invasion deaths. The latter, in turn, were based on anecdotal accounts allegedly provided by 998 Iraqi households whose identities and even locations cannot even be verified. The depraved Euro-elite accept this stupendous (and stupid) fraud as valid science.
None will leave (unfortunately) -- take it to the bank.
Go for it. But we had plenty of people claim they would leave if Bush was elected the first time. Guess what. . .they are still here in the good old US of A.
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Exactly, I wish they had left last time! Makes life better for us when socialist limo liberals leave for another country.
Cool, make like a hockey player and get the puck out of here.
You mean that people don't stay in Cuba because they love it there? Funny, the left always seems to forget the prohibition on travel in these communist 'paradises'.
Memo to US Celebs:
G.T.F.O.
Figure it out. By the way, if you don't get the acronym, or understand the meaning, you're out of luck.
Okay, I've given you three of the four words!!!!
Most of them didn't keep that promise last time, there's no way they will keep it this time. Hollywood Dimmocrats have no integrity.
You notice that none of these liberals are clamoring to move to such commie paradises as Cuba or China. Wonder why, eh?
Still waiting for the last crazy bunch of H'weirdos to leave. Don't let the door slap you on the a** on your way out either.
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