Heck, there's been another election since Bush was re-elected so I was recently thinking of taking this sticker off and making it into a magnet to add to the fridge.
This was a fairly young woman, and we were in fairly busy rush hour traffic. I wasn't at all worked up about the situation, but I couldn't resist getting a few shots back at an irrational Bush supporter who was rude enough to start yelling at a stranger in traffic who she assumed would be too timid to say anything back. To make sure she could hear over my engine, which sounds like it is getting ready for lift-off, I yelled back my response of "I'm against this war." She then yelled back something along the lines of "Do you want your grandchildren to die?" So I yelled "Well, I sure wouldn't want them to die in Iraq"
I also added "I don't have a problem with gay people," and "I think women should have the rights to abortions." (Although this last statement is true, there are reasons why I hate George Bush that I find more important in this unstable world than the abortion issue, but I was thinking on the fly.)
She responded by yelling "Well, do you think they should have their clitorises cut out?" Now, apparently this was in reference to saving women in the third world from sexual mutilation. I didn't know that George W. Bush had made a definitive stand on this issue. Maybe this woman finally figured out why we're in Iraq stirring up a bee's nest and making half the world needlessly hate us. George Bush loves pussy!
She then yelled "What about education? What about No Child Left Behind?" Now, I don't know if this woman was delusional enough to think that George W. Bush is a champion of education, or if I miraculously had converted her to rational thinking, but she was suddenly making points for me.
At this point the woman's friend was embarrassed and trying to get her to roll up the window, and traffic was busy, so I shouted one last thing, "The death penalty is racist," and she pulled ahead in her lane. What a freaky interaction. For one thing, I live in Maryland, which is highly Democrat. There are anti-Bush stickers all over the place. Also, W's popularity is as low or nearly as low as it's ever been. Look at the results of the most recent election. The people, politicians and the media all finally are seeing that Iraq was a mistake and that the Republican party got a little too drunk on their power these last few years. I'm not foolish enough to believe that all beliefs held by Republicans are inherently bad, but to have a young woman yell at me in traffic in defense of George W. Bush is just plain crazy.
Going back ten years, I lived in Gillette, Wyoming, and drove an even bigger piece of shit, an '87 Mazda 323. I had a Darwin emblem slapped on the back of that hot rod. One day a man rolled down his window and started hysterically screaming "Jesus is Lord" and telling me that I was going to rot in Hell. I didn't have time to inform that fool that evolution and believing in God aren't contradictory ideas, but I digress. Today I have a similar emblem on my bumper.
I don't think my new Bush-loving friend saw it. She didn't raise any religious arguments and as she pulled ahead I noticed she had a bumper sticker making reference to being guided by the Bible. Personally, I'd rather be guided by rational thought than be guided by the Bible, but I guess many George W. Bush Followers don't agree. Heaven help us.
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