Kathleen Sebilius and my Wingnut Brother.

[Chris_]

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KnaveRupe (627 posts)       Wed Jun-11-08 01:04 PM
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Kathleen Sebilius and my Wingnut Brother. 
Edited on Wed Jun-11-08 01:16 PM by KnaveRupe
Ok. Like many of you, I have a wingnut relative. My baby brother is ex-military (served in Gulf War I), and is currently a Pennsylvania State Trooper. We don't argue politics much, because he has a short temper and hates losing arguments. And he has a gun. And is TOTALLY not above giving me speeding tickets in retaliation.

So, anyways, as of this past Easter, he was gung-ho on McCain, and the rest of the family were all stupid to be supporting Hitlery Clinton, or "Hussein" Obama.

Bla, bla bla - the standard holiday family gathering crap that all of us have to put up with.

So imagine my surprise this past week when I found out that My Wingnut Brother - the cop who voted for Bush twice, and for Santorum every time he ran tells me that he's decided to vote for Obama.

"Getoutta****intown!" I replied.

"No really," he tells me. "I think the country's in bad shape, and I don't think McCain will fix it. I think Obama will at least try to get the job done."

By this time I'm looking around for Alan Fundt and the hidden cameras. "Ok," I says, "I'll bite. Did you get hit in the head? Are you dying from cancer? Were you replaced by an alien pod of some kind?"

"Nope. I've just been thinking about it a lot since before the primary."

After a bit of probing and cajoling, I found out what started him thinking.

When the candidates and their surrogates were blitzing the area in the leadup to the PA primary, he was the State cop who picked up Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebilius at the airport and drove her around during her visit to our little chunk o' Pennsyltucky to stump for Obama. And somewhere during that couple of hours, something she said must have clicked something in his little wingnut brain. Somehow she turned him away from his reflexive, kneejerk support for all things Republican, and planted the seeds that eventually grew into an acknowledgment that the country is ****ed if we continue on like we are.

"You know," he told me the other day, a couple months after her visit, "If Obama's smart, he should pick that Sebelius lady from Kansas for his Vice President. She'd be really good."

I don't know what she said to him, or even what they talked about. I have no freakin' clue how she did it. But somehow, some way, spending a few hours driving her around to speaking engagements accomplished what I haven't been able to do in the 20 or so years he and I've been fighting over this stuff.

Of course, he was probably more receptive to her arguments than mine, seeing how the Governor of Kansas never held him down and made him eat dirty sweatsocks when he was a kid.

Hey, I never claimed to be a diplomat.

(edited for typos)

First off it's Sebelius, dumbass. Second, no one believes the Republicans for Obama stories anymore. Three of 10 on the Bouncy scale.

[USA4ME]

"If Obama's smart, ...

If that's the qualifier, B. Hussein Osama's ship is sunk before it even leaves port.

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[Tantal]

 Three of 10 on the Bouncy scale.

Only 1 bong from this one......and that's only for the amount of effort and detail. The content is undiluted, dare I say 'concentrated', bullshit.

[DixieBelle]

Okay, 3 bongs but only because of the clever twist of making the brother a veteran and cop.

[franksolich]

Oh man.

Where are the pictures of bouncing balls when we need them?

This is a real bouncy.

[Chris_]

[franksolich]

Thank you.  That was needed.

[mamacags]

I think they are probably balloons but they are pretty anyway.

[LaceDustBoots]

You would think Knave would want to know what Kathleen said that turned her brother since Knave couldn't get anywhere with him in 20 yrs.  That would be the most important part of this story, if it were true.

[terry]

So even after he's converted, he still talks like a five year old and refers to her as
"that Sebelius lady ..."  instead of just using her name.   

[BEG]

They are lapping it up over there.  How predictable. 

[JohnnyReb]

They are lapping it up over there.  How predictable. 

DUmmies are like dogs, just spill anything on the floor and they'll lap it up.

[WinOne4TheGipper]

"Republicans for Obama"
"Chickens for Col. Sanders"
"Capitalists for Chavez"

Get it in your head, DUmmies, these groups DO NOT exist.

[jukin]

And is TOTALLY not above giving me speeding tickets in retaliation.

I give two bongs for that line.

With all the democrats voting for Obamination and all these converted republicans how will the DUmbasses explain his loss?   

[Chris_]

And is TOTALLY not above giving me speeding tickets in retaliation.

I give two bongs for that line.

With all the democrats voting for Obamination and all these converted republicans how will the DUmbasses explain his loss?   

How else do they explain it when they lose?

Republican "Voting Irregularities".        

[WinOne4TheGipper]

And is TOTALLY not above giving me speeding tickets in retaliation.

I give two bongs for that line.

With all the democrats voting for Obamination and all these converted republicans how will the DUmbasses explain his loss?   

Duh!  How'd they explain their losses in 2004, 2002, 2000, 1994, and 1980, along with their WIN in 2006?  Vote fraud, of course.