jgmaynard
12-06-2007, 07:07 PM
OK, I just got a call from a McCain worker. He introduced himself, and said he was working for John McCain and asked if I had a minute. I said sure. :)
He asked me for whom I was voting. I told him Ron Paul. He says "Oh. Would you say your support for him is firm?" I said "Absolutely." I then talked (just for a minute or so) about how my kids (actually they are my girlfriend's, but we've been together 6 years - close enough) were too important to me to be able to tolerate the war going on any longer.
I talked about how I could not in all good conscience, vote for anyone who would continue a war in which they might be drafted and die. He asked if they were around draft age and I told him that I had both a boy and a girl that are around draft age (they are 20 and 23) and their lives are too precious to me to entrust to John McCain.
Then I stated that "War is the ultimate big government project" and explained breifly about how we are borrowing three billion dollars a day from China to finance the war. Then, coming back to family (he was older sounding), I said that saddling my kids with that sort of debt is not something I could ever do to them.
He told me that McCain worked with some vet group that he was a part of and how McCain had been tortured in Vietnam, and I said that McCain's dedication to the troops and his service were things I admired in the man (This served to disarm him). I should have mentioned Ron's service record and donations, but I forgot. It was still too little too late for him, and he just said goodbye. I doubt I got a convert, but I got him to think better about Ron.
I mean, I was laid this on thick. I could just hear his voice becoming weaker and weaker and by the end, there was this total air of doubt in his voice about at least his opinion of Ron, if not McCain. Seemed like a nice guy, I almost felt sorry for him. But sometimes education is tough.
JM
He asked me for whom I was voting. I told him Ron Paul. He says "Oh. Would you say your support for him is firm?" I said "Absolutely." I then talked (just for a minute or so) about how my kids (actually they are my girlfriend's, but we've been together 6 years - close enough) were too important to me to be able to tolerate the war going on any longer.
I talked about how I could not in all good conscience, vote for anyone who would continue a war in which they might be drafted and die. He asked if they were around draft age and I told him that I had both a boy and a girl that are around draft age (they are 20 and 23) and their lives are too precious to me to entrust to John McCain.
Then I stated that "War is the ultimate big government project" and explained breifly about how we are borrowing three billion dollars a day from China to finance the war. Then, coming back to family (he was older sounding), I said that saddling my kids with that sort of debt is not something I could ever do to them.
He told me that McCain worked with some vet group that he was a part of and how McCain had been tortured in Vietnam, and I said that McCain's dedication to the troops and his service were things I admired in the man (This served to disarm him). I should have mentioned Ron's service record and donations, but I forgot. It was still too little too late for him, and he just said goodbye. I doubt I got a convert, but I got him to think better about Ron.
I mean, I was laid this on thick. I could just hear his voice becoming weaker and weaker and by the end, there was this total air of doubt in his voice about at least his opinion of Ron, if not McCain. Seemed like a nice guy, I almost felt sorry for him. But sometimes education is tough.
JM