MIke: Here's an omen for you to consider.
My sister called me yesterday. She is 80 years old. Her first presidential vote was for Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1944. Since then, she has been a Yellow Dog Democrat, utterly contemptuous of any politician other than a Democrat. This means that she voted for Truman, Stevenson (twice), JFK, Johnson, Humphrey, McGovern, Mondale, Carter, Dukakis, Clinton, Gore.
I have looked forward every four years to debating her in the most heated way since her politics and mine were at both extremes on the political spectrum.
Yesterday she called me and said:
"Brother, you won't believe it but this year, for the first time in my life, I am going to vote Republican."
I picked myself up off the floor and asked: "Why"
She laughed and said: " It's the 'hair' thing, Andrew. For some time now, I have looked for a reason NOT to vote for Kerry and had a hard time convincing myself not to go along with my 60 year history of voting the straight Democratic ticket. Yesterday, Kerry finally gave me the reason I needed. My husband is bald. He is has been bald for 40 years and has voted Republican for as long as I have voted Democrat. He has no hair. Kerry has too much hair. Time to give the Democrat a hair cut."
"Well," I replied. "I guess that is as good a reason as any if it really means that you will vote for Bush."
Her reply: "I'd vote for anyone other than Kerry."
An omen? Maybe. Never thought I would live to see the day. |
