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One can only imagine what she did to Aron to make his hit the road.

I read her column every Sunday, probably because something about her irritates and fascinates me at the same time. If I recall correctly, Aaron started out as a friend, and over a long period of time they slowly realized that they loved each other and really wanted to be together. For several columns everything was bliss. Then they hit a bump in the road: politics.

Turned out Aaron was a Republican, and he (gasp!) supported the war. She wrote a column about it in which she moaned about how awful it was to have a mate who wasn't as politically perfect as she was. They began to argue. She sent him a series of emails containing "facts" about the war (probably gleaned from Dummycrats Underground). One of these charming screeds had in the subject line: "Read this, warmonger!" He stood up for himself, which apparently infuriated her even more. She ended that column with the observation that her parents were coming to town the following week to meet him, and that they were even more liberal than she was. She wondered how dinner would be with three liberals and one conservative.

The next column, suddenly Aaron was gone. He had dumped her and she was devastated. She didn't go into too much detail about his reasons, but I have my suspicions. I think Aaron looked ahead to that dinner with her folks and realized that he would have to contend with Bush-bashing from all sides at once, all night long. And if he went ahead and married this girl, he could look forward to more of the same at every family gathering for years to come. When you factor her existing flakiness into the equation it looks like Aaron did the smart thing when he bailed.

I could probably tolerate dating a liberal woman IF she respected my opinions, and was willing to either not discuss politics OR engage in civil discussion without vomiting out the leftist line on every subject. But she'd have to be pretty moderate for me to even consider a long-term relationship of any kind. Even then, I'd be wary. The last thing I would want would be to marry someone who undermined everything I believe in. There's something to be said for complementary partnerships, but not to that degree. You have to be reasonably on the same page philosophically. Complement each other in other ways (division of labor, or in parenting style), but you can't be happy with someone who is as foreign to you as someone in China.

Having said that, I can't figure Carville/Matalin. The sex must be fantastic (sorry for that awful mental image).

I NEED to read those columns!

Reminds me of an experience I had myself about a year ago, where this girl was very obviously hitting on me.

Since I'm a dolt, I was ignoring it for a good long while, but eventually it became obvious. We had plans to go out, until she and her gaggle of girl friends walked up on myself and another right wing crazy listening to Rush Limbaugh and laughing. The conversation went like this:

Woman: "[my name], you two are having fun. What are you doing?"
Me: "We're listening to Rush. He's on a roll today."
Woman: "Rush Limbaugh?!?"
Me: "Yeah."
Woman: "You're a [with a very big edge] Republican?"
Me (realizing that this was the end of the road anyway): "Sometimes. They're actually too liberal for me a lot of it."

That was pretty much the end of that. She doesn't talk to me anymore, and I'm fine with that, as she is a slightly younger version of this article's author. The best part is friends of mine have noticed her on several internet dating services since then, complaining about not meeting "the right guy."

Sounds like a rehash of a certain Seinfeld episode where Elaine finds Mr. Perfect until Jerry introduces the abortion issue to cloud her sunny skies. Elaine of course expects her Mr. Perfect to be pro choice but she hadn't asked him about it. Of course when she does broach the subject he says he yearns for the day the Roe vs. Wade decision will be repealed. End of relationship with some boo hooing by Elaine because he was so perfect in every other way. On to episode # 117. It's kind of sad your life is actually a sitcom episode from a few years ago.

And if he went ahead and married this girl,

She called him her ex. As an old fuddy duddy, ex means ex spouse. Was she or was she not married to Aron?

Regardless, I suspect that Aron is happy to be out of the situation, whatever it was.

By the way, could I get a job at the Post if I described all of my marital and dating problems? What does it pay?