I can't believe my best friend is a Republican

Salon ^ | April 5, 2011 | Taffy Brodesser-Akner

[2ndDivisionVet]

I wonder if Janet is a FReeper?

[bigheadfred]

Looking for a date?

[6SJ7]

When you live, say, on a coast or in a very blue state, you grow accustomed to being surrounded by people who believe like you do. You get to thinking that the only people who would dare contradict you are ignoramuses.

This is what libs call "diversity".

[Psycho_Bunny]

Taffy sounds completely insufferable.

[Inyo-Mono]

But for all the things we don't have in common -- and the papery, crumply things we do -- our main difference is our political affiliation. Janet is a lifelong, passionate Republican. She does not pretend she is just a fiscal Republican, or just a Republican for Israel, as so many in our Jewish community are. She is a real, live, voting Republican. She likes Fox News and Rush Limbaugh. She admires Sarah Palin. She is for the defunding of NPR and Planned Parenthood. She is against "Obamacare," and she is for parental notification of abortions. Right now on my Facebook page, I have linked to a New York Times article on how women's rights are being violated by South Dakota's new abortion laws. Janet has just posted on hers -- I'm not kidding -- video footage of her and her husband at target practice.

Great article, can't wait to show to my wife before we go shootin'.

[max americana]

>She lives in Beverly Hills; I live in an area just beyond it where the potholes are reminiscent of Sarajevo and the government is broke.<

BS. It’s the Dummycrap who lives in Bev Hills. She must be talking about Culver City.

[COBOL2Java]

Janet, time to trade up, honey.

[Doogle]

"I can believe her parents named her Taffy, they must have wanted a cat"

[Rushmore Rocks]

I would love to hear Janet’s side of the story.

[Lazlo in PA]

What self respecting Reagan fan would be hanging with Berkley trash like this? Good ol' Taffy looks like a train wreck.

[NautiNurse]

I love Janet too. She isn’t an anonymous armchair warrior. She’s the real deal. A true asset to conservatism. She walks the walk.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Jesus said go where the sinners are.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Bingo! Janet is in a target-rich environment.

[bigheadfred]

Rhetorically, metaphorically, sycophlatulently, Taffy shore can write.

[rockrr]

I’d be proud to have Janet as a friend or neighbor. I’d be embarrassed to admit to knowing the author.

[Mamzelle]

Janet should have better taste in friends.

[dila813]

I have no doubt

[Mr. K]

"I liked her refusal to lie about what she'd eaten or rationalize it"

Must have been a refreshing change from the authors liberal friends...

[Colonel_Flagg]

This is a democracy, after all.

No, it's not. Never has been.

However, this woman's Republican friend must have met her during 'Be Kind To Animals Week'.

[PGR88]

I like Janet.