[alisasny]

A fairly good and old friend of mine called to gloat about Reagan's death around 630 pm Saturday night. I had a feeling that was why she called so I returned the call around 8 pm. She was literally out of her mind with hate for Reagan and how she could not bare to listen to things about Reagan all week yada yada yada.

She made the statement that if only he had fed the poor (in USA) instead of wasting money on defense we would all be better off and blamed him and Bush for her family woes even though all her woes are her own horrible life choices which of course are not her fault but everyone elses. She has no hold or concept of her life and the path it has led too and whenever in past I have tried to set her straight its the same old its everyone elses fault to the point I was giving up on her for quite some time but afraid also she is having some type of breakdown.

By the end of the convo I was so shaken and tried not to insult her back as best I could figuring hey shes a liberal who is never going to change what can I do anyway.

( In the past this girl has literally canceled my vote with glee)

I am still skaken by her tone with me at this moment and I am seriously considering making a change and ending our friendship. Not just because of sat. convo but because its been coming for a long time and this was the icing on the cake. It hurts me to do so however I really can not take it anymore.

[Fury]

A fairly good and old friend of mine called to gloat about Reagan's death around 630 pm Saturday night. I had a feeling that was why she called so I returned the call around 8 pm. She was literally out of her mind with hate for Reagan and how she could not bare to listen to things about Reagan all week yada yada yada.

The office liberal has a sly smile and has had one all day. I know him well enough to know that he's happy that Reagan died, but he knows better than to say it out loud.. Just last week, he explained how much he truly hated Presidents Regan, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush.

Speaking for myself and how I view Presidents with whom I disagree, I don't hate President Clinton. Never did, never will. I don't believe he was an especially good President, although he was a good politician in many respects. I would never talk of him the way that I have heard folks talk of the passing of President Reagan. For folks who espouse tolerance and no hate, some seem fairly intolerant and hateful.

Speaking for myself, I tend to not associate closely with folks who have this level of hate and anger.

[CSM]

I recommend you end this friendship ASAP. Anyone that would call to celebrate a death of someone you supported and respected, is no friend. Anyone that calls to rub it in deserves to be violently cut from your life.

[FastCoyote]

"I am seriously considering making a change and ending our friendship."

We used to have frequent dinners with some liberal lawyer friends, but have broken off contact. They hate us, we hate them. No way around it.

[You Dirty Rats]

In my opinion, her behavior was not that of a friend at all. It appears that by her actions she has ended your friendship, and sadly there are times in life where the choices of other hurt us through no fault of our own.

[Tired_of_the_Lies]

You didn't ask for advice, and I am not here to tell you what to do.

However, if it were me, I probably would go out of my way to avoid a person like that for any number of reasons, not the least of which is that she has extraordinarily bad manners and quite obviously thinks only of herself (to the extent that you wish to call her mental processes thinking).

As to her blaming President Reagan for problems that are the consequences of her own poor judgment and bad choices, I am reminded of a website I stumbled on yesterday on which President Reagan was being blamed for lack of birth control in third world countries and the economic/social consequences of that lack. I found that to be amazing in its stupidity.

Here we have groups of people who are irresponsibly procreating far in excess of their ability to provide for the children they produce and this is somehow someone else's fault. More astonishingly, the primary someone at fault is a person who has not been President of the United States for over 15 years.

[caddie]

My vote is to end the friendship by just not responding to her, ever again.

These people know they are pushing your buttons by ragging about someone you admire, even going as far as she did to "gleefully cancel your vote." Talk about hostile.

I have had several close friends in adolescence who grew up and became doctrinaire Rats, usually after bankrupting their parents by insisting on going to some Ivy League school to educate their arrogant and low-average intellects. Talk about a waste of cash.

One guy (a Brown alumnus) badgered me diligently about being Republican to the extent that I just avoided taking his calls. He came in town from time to time, was hurt that I didn't want to see him and his family.

I had my feelings hurt tremendously, over time, so much so, that I just figured I did not "owe" him continued fellowship or friendship or whatever.

And I did not want to give him the satisfaction of knowing that I was a conservative, therefore, unfriendly. I just let it go.

My life became a whole lot better in my thirties when I just D/Cd these pseudo-friends who became pathologic liberals when they became adults.

As you have apparently done, I had spent years excusing them, trying to be friendly over and over again, even though they were lightning fast at insulting me for believing what I believed. And nasty, too. After a while, you just realize that you are being harmed by their hostility.

"Leave the dead to bury the dead."

[Richard Axtell]

Your story is almost identical to one of mine, except the friend in this case is male. This is going to be a common occurrence, liberal breakdown. We shall see many people, not the leaders, but he followers, fall apart as their party of choice implodes and splinters into fractious leftist fringe elements. Here is were compassionate conservatism can be an uplifting and beneficent force. Comfort those who meltdown, as they can now be converted! They are in the process of realizing that they have been misled, and that their entire worldview has been based on fraud.

I know, because I was one of them. I worked for McGovern in 1972, as hard as any proto-liberal ever did. Yet, I encountered the first bitter and corrupting taste of the yet unnamed "political correctness" and it turned my stomach. I had always been an anticommunist, and had bought the line that liberalism was the best counter to totalitarianism. That is where it all fell apart, in 1975, when I saw the left in the Congress enable the fall of Vietnam, the genocide in Cambodia, and the rapid decline of the entire country. Reagan changed all that, Thank God!

[moodyskeptic]

Re: your friend. In this new day of American political polarization, many friendships are strained to the breaking point. The left is forcing the issue, daring the right to defend honest men like Reagan and GWB.

Your snapping point will come. It has already come for many Freepers. Those of us with liberal friends bite our tongue, keep our cool, try to remain calm under relentless emotional attack.

When you do snap, and you will, do so with grace and resolve. Announce that you will no longer stay quiet while hearing your patriotism dragged down with pessimism and sarcasm. This is the Summer for you to speak up.

Stakes are high.

[Alissa]

I have a liberal first cousin who is great except for her politics. The way I deal with her is to cut it off before she starts and if it she continues I stand my ground. In the past she backs off first. If she accidently sends me an email, I email her back not to send me her political crap. She knows we're polar opposites, so when we're together we normally try to avoid talking about politics altogether. It's amazing how much we have in common outside the subject of government, yet we are so different in our views of government.