"if I want to have any friends here"
If they can't tolerate your political beliefs, are they your friends?
"If they can't tolerate your political beliefs, are they your friends?"
Scrapped someone today for this very reason. She is now someone whose phone number will be DELETED. As soon as she threw that "slave" crap out there (I'm black and a W supporter), that was the last straw for our sinking association.
Well, they do tolerate my political beliefs. They both know perfectly well where I stand, since we had conversations about this before the election, and neither of them said anything nasty to me about "YOUR president" or some such. I expect things to go back to normal between us in a few days. It was just a little sad that we all had to be so painfully polite. Living here in a very blue county, I have the choice of having a VERY few Republican friends, or I can have many friends, if they are people who know my views and can still be polite to me. When they cease being polite, that's when I write 'em off. (That "slave" remark someone mentioned would certainly have done it! Yikes -- the arrogance of some people!)