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My RW, Fox-loving, hyper-religous dad blames TP 100% for shutdown. (Original Post) yends21012 Oct 2013 OP
Good. Make sure he knows that the Tea Party folks are Republicans. Tx4obama Oct 2013 #1
He is overall pretty astute... yends21012 Oct 2013 #2
fox couldn't brain wash him on that!?!!!! Cha Oct 2013 #3
Does he know the TPers are soft pscot Oct 2013 #4
My dad grumbled a bit when they did it to Clinton Warpy Oct 2013 #5
TP? ThoughtCriminal Oct 2013 #6
Good news. I hope all the GOP TP get a road to Damascus moment from this! freshwest Oct 2013 #7

Tx4obama

(36,974 posts)
1. Good. Make sure he knows that the Tea Party folks are Republicans.
Tue Oct 8, 2013, 07:31 PM
Oct 2013

Btw, I have a cousin that did not know that the 'GOP' is the same thing as the 'Republican Party'.

It can be confusing for folks that do not follow politics

yends21012

(228 posts)
2. He is overall pretty astute...
Tue Oct 8, 2013, 07:34 PM
Oct 2013

He just got sucked into the RW echo chamber. I think the shutdown is opening a lot of eyes.

Warpy

(111,267 posts)
5. My dad grumbled a bit when they did it to Clinton
Tue Oct 8, 2013, 08:07 PM
Oct 2013

I would imagine that had he lived to see this horseshit, he'd have been audible all the way from Florida to NM. He disliked Clinton for raising his taxes. I think he'd have liked Obama.

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