8:15 pm, cst -- 1/19/04 ---
It's still going on, as this is written. As a Precinct Chairman/
County Central Committee member/Convention Delegate (once
again re-elected to those positions tonight, I was familiar with the
procedure, and my city breezed right through it.
HIGHLIGHTS ---
-- Black Hawk County is one of Iowa's more populous, of its
99 counties (but far smaller than Polk County, which contains
Des Moines. We had the largest turnout, and that's probably
due primarily to the fact that the Republican Party's NATIONAL
Director, Ed Gillespie, was the speaker. The turnout numbered
around 300, and there was standing room only.
-- The YOUNGER people showed their astuteness by going to
the enthusiastic and energized DEMOCRATIC caucuses,
instead. By visual assessment, only perhaps 10-12 people
at the Republican caucus were college age thru 20-something.
Even though I'm 62, it appeared that half or more of the
attendees at the *Republican* caucus being described were
older than I am... many of them significantly so.
-- Literature at the caucus reflected the Republicans Anti-Choice
stance on abortion, and outright *opposed* same-sex marriage.
In the face of such mindless bigotry, it's no wonder that the
idealistic younger folks were at the Democratic caucuses
instead. (Many of those older folks at the Republican Party
are from the "old school" values system. I am SO glad that
there are exceptions to that rule, as I know from personal
experience.)
JUST as segregation and bans on interracial marriage went down the
Drain of extinction, I look for the same to happen to the Anti-Choice and
homophobic agendas.
And as for the Republican Party? I think that once the older faction
within it that's responsible for the bigotry of the RRR cult, has run its
course, lifetime-wise, the republican part will become RESPECTABLE
and egalitarian again.
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