Posted on 02/19/2008 11:02:38 AM PST by Nick Thimmesch
IT was happening again. I was at a cocktail party where the hosts were people I had just met, people I wanted to become friends with, and was sipping chardonnay and nibbling papadum chips when a woman said, “Oh, the people next door! They’re ...,” she paused and lowered her voice, “ ... Republican.”
Everyone grimaced. The conversation quickly turned to complaints about the current administration. Before long it wasn’t just the administration being bashed but Republicans in general.
I stood there nodding, my dirty secret lodged in my throat like a golf ball.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
That propbably makes them psychotics.
I’m Republican, my brother is a Democrat. He’s 7 years older and I think he got some of that 60s mess on him. Ever since W was elected we barely talk. He ALWAYS wants to talk politics, and he can’t do so with someone who disagrees with him. He becomes irrational.
One of the key differences between he and I that other’s notice: I can talk to anyone about politics. I can see the good and bad in both sides. I don’t feel the need to convert anyone, I just state my opinion and leave it at that. My brother, on the other hand, feels a compulsion to convert others. He will go on and on and on about why someone should be a Democrat, and weave his pretzel logic about how Republicans are evil incarnate.
Democrats are passionately stupid.
the story has a “happy” ending for the libs: the Republican husband supports Obama.
Maybe the husband one of those FReepers who swear that they won’t support McCain no matter what.
So he's a RINO who joins with her in the sacred cult of abortion.
Not surprising.
I changed too-from Republican to Conservative Republican. Can I get an op-ed in the New York Times?
Three? Each of them must have something going for them. I suspect the same thing as Ann Hood here. After all, a liberal women is really only a life support system for her reproductive organ.
Nerver heard of those kind of chips--they must make you dum and are only eaten by libs. I'm sure glad I have'nt nibbled on a dumpapa chip...
Hey so did I! Wait, my husband did also!
I call BS on this article. Her husband is allegedly a Republican, a conservative (except, the author would have us believe, when it comes to abortion, in which case he has no qualms about dismembering a baby in a partial birth abortion procedure), and yet, at the end of the day declares his support for the most rabidly left, hard-core Marxist running in 2008? BS is a charitable term to what I really think of this piece.
For all her melodramatic posturing, her husband doesn’t really sound like much of a republican.
The day of the NY Primary my wife told me, "my mom called and said she is voting for Hillary today because she can't vote for a muslim." I said, "I bet your idiot mom isn't even registered to vote."
I was right. My wife laughed.
My wife is the odd ball of her family in many ways. One of them being she is a conservative. When we moved to NC from NY in 1996, we purposefully waited until the Lollapolloza concert to register to vote at the Rock The Vote booth for the express purpose of annoying the liberal jerks working the booth with the fact that they just registered republicans to vote.
Nick,
It's better to keep quiet and let them guess about your stupidity, than to post the proof and remove all doubt.
Our daughter has quoted several of her friends say such things as: “Your parents are Republican? I can’t understand it. They seem so bright.”
One posting should be enough, Nick.
That’s straight out of the liberal playbook.
If they didn't have said organ, there'd be a bounty on them.
This tripe makes me sick. She completely identifies her life through the prism of politics.
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