OK Larry didn't personally get me into a fight. And no it wasn't a real "fight".

But it was started by his bumper sticker I proudly display on my car.

And it was the Title Fight of the afternoon.

So as my girlfriend and I pull up in our VW's in Raleigh, we just picked her car up from the shop, and drove over to Six Forks for lunch, I get out of my car and a man walking to his looks at my car funny. He asks "So what district is he [Larry Kissell] running in?" I tell him the 8th and he asks against who? I said good ole Robin Hayes, knowing full well where this is going...

"Oh well I got something for you", the man says, and preceeds to give me a printed sheet of paper (and he had LOTS OF THESE) of the "Offical Crybaby Seal of the Democratic Party".

I looked at it like, "Are you kidding me? Didn't you guys run this into the ground in 2000?" He laughs and says, "yep and in 2002 and 2004 and we will this year."

So as my generation says...
"Oh, it is on like Donkey Kong."

After 30 minutes later, my girlfriend (love her to death) leaving and getting food ready for us from the sandwich shop, and us getting NO WHERE...I make my exit saying, "Don't worry bub my athiest g/f and I are going to get married, have lots of liberal babies, and all vote in 20 years." (A joke...ultra-liberal babies.)

He responds, "well see I don't really believe in all that God stuff sometimes anyways."

Oh there is another 10 mintues of my life I won't be getting back.
How can you be so behind GWB, not believe in God, and think the GOP is truly out to save the world for the betterment of all mankind?

The jist of the whole thing was him switching topics when I tried to bring up a fallacy of the Right, insults about how we, the Dems, "Can't read." "Are terrorist sympathizers..appeasers." " Hate Bush more than helping the country in Iraq and here." "And use blacks like the right uses evangelists for their votes." His whole argument was based on bashing Clinton/Gore, Katie Couric and Keith Olbermann, and the left as a whole. Then claiming all we do is critize. I said "What do you expect, we're the opposition party!? You're the ones who've had all the power for 6 years, name something thats gotten better!"

I seriously was trying to have a valid argument over the minimum wage, education, Iraq, and the economy. Sure all my facts were not all solid, some opinions more than others, and I mocked his ideal of stopping Saddam as some great thing.

But never insulted the whole GOP as a stereotype. I mean who the hell does that??

Not to mention this guys prideful boasting of Boooing John Edwards and Tim Robbins at a Hurricanes game. How can you be proud of yelling at people who have no power?

So all in all I just wanted to share that having a Larry Kissell bumper sticker in the heart of Raleigh...is totally frackin worth it!!

Besides being worn out and missing lunch of course.

Go Kissell, Go Shuler, Go Shelton, Go Miller. And don't forget about all of us fighting on the front when we send you all to DC!