Republican coworker's statements... [View All]

I was on a break with my Republican coworker today, who gets along with me despite our political differences. He lives across the border in Indiana for the low taxes, but drives to Chicago for his job. Huh, good thing for him Chicago is here otherwise he might be skinning squirrels for a living or whatever. Anyway, I was just curious what it takes to get through to Republicans. Here are some of his thoughts:

Regarding McCain graduating 894th out of 899 at the Naval Academy:
"What do you call a doctor who graduated at the bottom of his class -- a doctor! I'd rather have a surgeon who graduated from the bottom of his class at Harvard than someone who was 1st in their class at Prairie State."
The Moral: Republican voters have no understanding of the privileged of legacies in higher education, and no regard for the hard work of the millions who attend other colleges.

Regarding taxes:
"Yeah Obama says he's only raising taxes for people making over $250k, and will lower taxes for 95% of people, but people don't know whether they are part of that 5%. All they know is SOMEBODY's taxes are going to be raised -- they don't know if it's going to be them."
The Moral: Republican voters do not understand math or numbers.

Regarding national debt:
"Most people don't care how much national debt we leave to our children. Heck I know I don't."
The Moral: Republican voters have little concern for their kids.

After his last comment about not caring about his children I had to leave.

One ray of hope is that he is disappointed in the choice of Sarah Palin, but I don't know if he's able to comprehend the magnitude of bad judgment that McCain made and will probably vote for him anyway. I mean, since he can't figure out whether he's in the top 5% or not, I doubt he can figure out that. He's definitely not in the top 5% I can tell you that.