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Lost an Old Friend Today. Politics and the Personal
11.24.04 | mlmr

Posted on 11/24/2004 2:42:43 PM PST by mlmr

I lost an old friend today. No, she didn't die. She screamed at me for my many-year metmorphisis from rad-liberal to conservative. She doesn't understand why I have changed, and is unable to listen because she is filled with bile, anger and hate. She wishes Bush evil and hates US policy. She has turned into a Michal Moore robot.

We have not been close friends for many years but I did enjoy keeping in touch. Because of our thirty year history I have treated the friendship gingerly but with great fondness.

Politics is hell.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: friend; politics
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To: mlmr

Friendship is dear, but I think this one might be a lost cause.

I'm an optimist be nature, but...


121 posted on 11/24/2004 3:30:10 PM PST by Aussie Dasher (Stop Hillary - PEGGY NOONAN '08)
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To: Reverend Bob

The one thing all of the above have in common: An obsessive hatred of Bush (and Republicans) that overwhelms everything else in their life.

My friend was always able to hate well. She hides it under the auspices of concerne for the "innocent Iraqi people".


122 posted on 11/24/2004 3:32:47 PM PST by mlmr (Rubbing it in Leftist faces since 1994)
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To: mlmr
I'm very close to a couple of democrats who are long-time friends. We don't discuss politics.

Friendship is more important.

123 posted on 11/24/2004 3:33:32 PM PST by mombonn ( ¡Viva Bush/Cheney! Dukakis and Kerry are the matching bookends of the Bush era.)
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To: Wolverine

I am.

Very interesting. Who is he?


124 posted on 11/24/2004 3:33:57 PM PST by mlmr (Rubbing it in Leftist faces since 1994)
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To: Xenalyte
My parents are just happy I finally turned conservative

YOU were... a liberal?!?!

That's just hard to picture...

125 posted on 11/24/2004 3:37:07 PM PST by Axenolith (This space for rent...)
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To: mlmr

Now it's two of us who use 'christmas card friends!' ;-)


126 posted on 11/24/2004 3:37:32 PM PST by HitmanLV (HitmanNY has a brand new Blog!! Please Visit! - http://www.goldust.com/weblog -)
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To: mlmr
"...She has turned into a Michal Moore robot."

Send her a gift with a bottle of "W" ketchup and a roll of Kerry toilet paper!

127 posted on 11/24/2004 3:40:01 PM PST by BobS
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To: mlmr

Thank God MOST of my friends are on the same page as me!! Whew!! And family too. I guess I'm blessed....


128 posted on 11/24/2004 3:41:48 PM PST by StarCMC (It's God's job to forgive Bin Laden; it's our job to arrange the meeting.)
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To: mlmr

I have 3 liberal acquaintances that explain my relationships the best.

One no longer talks to me because I would not allow him to malign our troops, our reasons & involvement in Iraq, etc.

Second just hasn't spoken with me since just before & after the election. I think it is let down; she will recover.

The third thinks she is a liberal, but is apathetic for the most part. I usually challenge her when she parrots the liberal line. But, she hasn't stopped talking to me. Our differences are just that, differences. But, she never, ever says degrading things about our military or actions in front of me. She knows that is off limits.


129 posted on 11/24/2004 3:41:57 PM PST by ican'tbelieveit
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To: utahagen
The EXACT same thing happened when I replied "all" on a list where the intellectual snobbery was reaching a peak. I just stated that the reason they lost was right in front of their faces, arrogance, hubris, hatred etc...

I think they might have boken a few keyboards at the closing because I noted they should keep it up, we'd be happy to hand them their asses at the midterms and in 2K8 ;-)

130 posted on 11/24/2004 3:42:25 PM PST by Axenolith (This space for rent...)
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To: mlmr
My friend was always able to hate well.

Here's the problem - she may well be more interested in the hating than anything else. The fact that she is obsessed and refuses to discuss anything else points this way. If she were a conservative she'd be a stormfronter or one of those reclusive survivalist types.

You may just have to mourn a little while and then leave this one behind. As you said on the phone, you never knew her.

131 posted on 11/24/2004 3:42:28 PM PST by AnAmericanMother (. . . Ministrix of ye Chace (recess appointment), TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary . . .)
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To: utahagen

I have a friend here at work that had his friend email him out of the blue after the election; essentially screaming about abortion, etc. She took her anger over the loss out on anyone she could on the "winning" side it seems.


132 posted on 11/24/2004 3:44:22 PM PST by ican'tbelieveit
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To: StarCMC

Thank God MOST of my friends are on the same page as me!! Whew!! And family too. I guess I'm blessed

You sure are!


133 posted on 11/24/2004 3:45:15 PM PST by mlmr (Rubbing it in Leftist faces since 1994)
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To: mlmr
"I am feeling pretty friendless tonight."

You have FRiends that you do not even know about!

134 posted on 11/24/2004 3:45:48 PM PST by Radix (This post is being protected by a sophisticated Tag Line alert system. Stand back!)
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To: AnAmericanMother

You may just have to mourn a little while and then leave this one behind. As you said on the phone, you never knew her.

You are right.


135 posted on 11/24/2004 3:46:34 PM PST by mlmr (Rubbing it in Leftist faces since 1994)
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To: ican'tbelieveit

She took her anger over the loss out on anyone she could on the "winning" side it seems.


She is using anyone she can.


136 posted on 11/24/2004 3:48:29 PM PST by mlmr (Rubbing it in Leftist faces since 1994)
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To: get'emall

"...and my new friends are smarter."

I love it!


137 posted on 11/24/2004 3:49:30 PM PST by diamond6 (Everyone who is for abortion has already been born. Ronald Reagan)
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To: mlmr
An Accuracy in Academia Address by Bill Lind

Variations of this speech have been delivered to various AIA conferences including the 2000 Consevative University at American University

138 posted on 11/24/2004 3:50:19 PM PST by Wolverine (A Concerned Citizen)
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To: The Flying Dutchman
Hello,

I am the co-leader of my son's Tiger Cub Den (Cub Scouts for 1st graders). I knew that the leader (a really nice woman, BTW) was a Dem, and she works for the Fed. Government here in St. Louis. We had a Den Mtg. on Election Day, after school (which saved me an ulcer, as I missed most of the bad exit polling!). Anyway, she and her kids noticed my Bush bumper sticker, and her oldest asked me if I was a Republican. I said yes. He said (he is in 5th grade): then you are EVIL. I said, thank you for your opinion. He, said that he was just kidding, and I (of course) let the matter drop.

It amazes me, as I try very hard to teach my son that in America, each of us are allowed to make our own decisions. There is no way that a 5th grader independently decided that we are evil, that was taught.

Glad to be here, MOgirl
139 posted on 11/24/2004 3:50:23 PM PST by MOgirl (My tag line is gone, how weird...)
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To: mlmr

Here's a big lesson. If you have friends you want to keep, never discuss religion or politics with them if you know you can't change their minds. It's not worth losing the friendship over.


140 posted on 11/24/2004 3:50:31 PM PST by sonserae
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