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I can't believe my best friend is a Republican
Salon ^ | April 5, 2011 | Taffy Brodesser-Akner

Posted on 04/06/2011 5:49:25 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: Lazlo in PA

it makes my skin crawl to hear how liberals think


21 posted on 04/06/2011 6:35:31 PM PDT by Mr. K (Job #1 DEFUND THE LEFT Palin/Bachman 2012 -Unbeatable Ticket)
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To: bigheadfred

“sycophlatulently”

hee hee hee... did you make that up?


22 posted on 04/06/2011 6:36:56 PM PDT by Mr. K (Job #1 DEFUND THE LEFT Palin/Bachman 2012 -Unbeatable Ticket)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

There is always hope. She could start listening to her now that she has all the cons out of the way.


23 posted on 04/06/2011 6:40:41 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This is a great article.

I’m actually life-long friends with a liberal all the way back to high school. It’s very tough to maintain the friendship after we got into it over obamacare.

We used to get together for lunch twice a year, but it didn’t happen last year.

This person volunteered for hillary and loves obamacare.


24 posted on 04/06/2011 6:51:47 PM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
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To: Psycho_Bunny
Taffy sounds completely insufferable.

Starting with her Hillary-approved three-part name: Taffy Brodesser-Akner.

We're going to see more and more of these very strange kind of articles i the comng months. See, Hillary has a problem - she has to differentiate herself from Obama enough to catch the middle Kennedy-democrat centrist Rats who have an appreciation for certain survival-level conservative ideas, without losing the her liberal Rat base who would bail on her for Obama.

It's a veeeery delicate sitchyayshun.

As a result, three-named Taffy's are going to be poppin out of the woodwork, crunching granola with one had while target-shooting at the range with the other, all while talking about PMS bloating and shoe fashions while mixing in crypto-Marxist allusions to class warfare and sexism.

No joke, just look at the article again, that's what it is.

We are in the Twilight Zone, and there is an army of Taffy Brodesser-Akners in black pantsuits and horse-pearl necklaces striving mightily for a pat on the head and a gold sticker from Her Heinous.

25 posted on 04/06/2011 6:55:31 PM PDT by Talisker (When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on its own.)
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To: Lazlo in PA

"Taffy Brodesser-Akner has written for the Los Angeles Times, Salon, and Babble, among other publications. She lives with her husband, Claude, and her son, Ezra, in Los Angeles."

26 posted on 04/06/2011 6:58:38 PM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
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To: Mr. K
it makes my skin crawl to hear how liberals think

The problem is there are so many of them out there, and last time around, they voted for obama.

27 posted on 04/06/2011 7:04:00 PM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
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To: Dr. Scarpetta

I have a friend that used to be the biggest lib. I would just tell her she was full of crap. We have been friends for over 30 yrs and about 16 yrs ago I finally turned her. Lol. Now she is almost as bad as me.


28 posted on 04/06/2011 7:07:02 PM PDT by sheana
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To: sheana
I have a friend that used to be the biggest lib. I would just tell her she was full of crap. We have been friends for over 30 yrs and about 16 yrs ago I finally turned her. Lol. Now she is almost as bad as me.

How is that possible?

When we got into it over obamacare, I offered to send e-mails that would explain the TRUE FACTS. She told me not to bother because she wouldn't even open them.

She's pro-choice, went to a gay wedding 2 years ago, and is fanatical about obamacare.

29 posted on 04/06/2011 7:12:56 PM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
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To: Mr. K

They dont think, they feel.That is the problem with moonbats.


30 posted on 04/06/2011 7:15:03 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life is tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I have liberal friends. We rarely talk politics. One told me a little socilism was a good thing. I told her that was like being a little pregnant. We both laughed. Most people come by their politics through family, spouses, or University. They just know one thing. I understand both sides. I decided on my own what kind of country I prefer. I was not taught politics by family, University or a husband. I learned it by living.


31 posted on 04/06/2011 7:16:02 PM PDT by therut
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To: Psycho_Bunny

>>>Taffy sounds completely insufferable.

+1. FR needs a “like” button :)


32 posted on 04/06/2011 7:17:42 PM PDT by Keith in Iowa (FR Class of 1998 | TV News is an oxymoron. | MSNBC = Moonbats Spouting Nothing But Crap.)
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To: bigheadfred

>>>...sycophlatulently...

Gaseous arrogance?? :)


33 posted on 04/06/2011 7:20:56 PM PDT by Keith in Iowa (FR Class of 1998 | TV News is an oxymoron. | MSNBC = Moonbats Spouting Nothing But Crap.)
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To: Keith in Iowa

Arrogant or condescending. She is doing the same thing that liberals used to do with blacks. “I have a black friend” type of comment. “I have a Republican friend. See how tolerant I am?”


34 posted on 04/06/2011 7:54:51 PM PDT by WVNan
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To: Keith in Iowa; Mr. K
There's something to be said, Taffy, for styling yourself a creative writer, and BEING a creative writer.

Hey people, haven't you read my book?

Bigheadfred's Imcomprehensible and Incoherent Rantography

The really good news is I printed this article and put it in my medicine cabinet. Gonna save me $$$ not having to stock the ipecac any more.

35 posted on 04/06/2011 7:55:53 PM PDT by bigheadfred (Beat me, Bite me...Make Me Write Bad Checks)
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To: Psycho_Bunny
Taffy sounds completely insufferable.

Taffy's brain cells have apparently not completely given up firing. Where there is life, there is hope.

At some point, it is to be hoped, Taffy will realize that the things that she thinks are contradictions are not contradictions at all.

And Janet sounds like a saintly soul.

36 posted on 04/06/2011 7:57:36 PM PDT by filbert (More filbert at http://www.medary.com--The Revolution Will Be Exit-Polled. I hope.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This woman’s big revelation is that perhaps she should go way out on a limb and actually think a bit about the issues she feels so passionately about. Wow.


37 posted on 04/06/2011 7:58:57 PM PDT by SupplySider
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“I sometimes wonder why liberals, who are so enamored of the freedom to do any damn thing they want, even take government money when it constricts their freedoms.”

Taffy dear, have you figured out an answer to that yet.


38 posted on 04/06/2011 8:00:21 PM PDT by Valpal1 ("No clever arrangement of bad eggs ever made a good omelet." ~ C.S. Lewis)
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To: sheana

Awesome. That’s never happened to me.


39 posted on 04/06/2011 8:00:44 PM PDT by SupplySider
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To: Dr. Scarpetta

She and her whole family were workers. Then tragedy started. Her sister got cancer and couldn’t really get any help and died. That started the turn. When her mother got sick and she started looking for resources to help her I could really see a change. She figured out that she had been suckered all along. I, of course, just kept pounding on the difference between the makers and the takers. Lol
After her husband died her right wing son moved in with her and really educated her.


40 posted on 04/06/2011 8:05:29 PM PDT by sheana
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