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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWill your parents vote for Romney and essentially end your SS and Medicare ?
Could be an interesting angle in November.
Perhaps a good ad.
ProfessionalLeftist
(4,982 posts)THEY have nothing to lose. They're teabaggers who gripe about "socialism" - yet never send their social security or disability checks back. Their excuse? "Well WE need it!"
They just refinanced their home too, thanks to Obama's programs to allow it so they can get a lower interest rate. Did they thank Obama? Hell no.
Siwsan
(26,289 posts)My mother is an extremely right wing Beck and Limbaugh listening, watching fox news ALL DAY, EVERY DAY sort of conservative who finds it a genetic fluke to have such a Liberal daughter. I no longer discuss anything political or socio-economic with her, but if I would bring it up, she would accuse me of not knowing what I'm talking about. Unless she hears it directly from someone on fox, she doesn't believe it.
NNN0LHI
(67,190 posts)RagAss
(13,832 posts)OffWithTheirHeads
(10,337 posts)grasswire
(50,130 posts)Comfortable, she is, with her teachers union pension and social security and medicare. She recently joined the NRA, and is a teabagger dittohead.
Freddie
(9,273 posts)It totally boggles my mind how many of them are Repugs. Like a chicken voting for Col. Sanders.
gkhouston
(21,642 posts)gkhouston
(21,642 posts)proud patriot
(100,715 posts)My mom will be voting dem , hopefully dad won't vote green (I've been talking up the USSC)
I do have a SIL who is completely blinded and hatefilled toward obama and anything liberal
the rest ofmy family is liberal and Democratic
Freddie
(9,273 posts)My parents are retired teachers and appreciate all their union has done for them, and pretty much lifelong Democrats. They did vote for Nixon twice but they're forgiven.
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)they are both deceased.
I guess this means I'm not in mourning anymore.
Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)Mom voted R until *, then registered D in 2008 to vote for Obama, her last election. Even Dad (step) with his "Keep working, millions on welfare depend on you." sticker, would not vote for *. He wouldn't have voted for Obama though, and would be voting for Mittens.
No surprise, even the R's in the family barely speak. Hateful, every one. Greed destroyed my old family.
Spirochete
(5,264 posts)That being said, there's no way either of them would have voted for those two nose nuggets. They were staunch Democrats.