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madamesilverspurs

(15,804 posts)
Mon Mar 26, 2012, 11:56 AM Mar 2012

Livid

Mom will be 93 in a couple of months, she was born at about the same time that women got the right to vote. She's lived through the Depression, WWII and Korea, raised four children. She's spent a lifetime being informed and active in her community, worked on the campaigns of candidates she believed in, served as election judge until Dad's health required her to stay at home in the 1990s. She was raised by a mother who was among the first generation to exercise that right to vote, and taught her daughter by example how to be informed and involved. Mom is a lifelong Republican who is now told by the party she has worked in and for that she and women like her are too stupid to understand their own health care requirements. Last night she told me that she is now an Independent.

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Livid (Original Post) madamesilverspurs Mar 2012 OP
I love your mom for that. nt Sarah Ibarruri Mar 2012 #1
Your mom is on the ball! Congrats to you both. n/t CaliforniaPeggy Mar 2012 #2
Mr Pip's parents are 92 Mz Pip Mar 2012 #3
The Republican opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment for women JDPriestly Mar 2012 #4
My late MIL, a live long republican... WCGreen Mar 2012 #5
Three women in my conservative neighborhood just switched off the Republican Taliban. MichiganVote Mar 2012 #6
Kicked and recommended. Uncle Joe Mar 2012 #7

Mz Pip

(27,445 posts)
3. Mr Pip's parents are 92
Mon Mar 26, 2012, 02:35 PM
Mar 2012

My WWII vet father-in-law told us that the current batch of GOPers make him nauseous. My MIL feels the same way.

JDPriestly

(57,936 posts)
4. The Republican opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment for women
Mon Mar 26, 2012, 02:50 PM
Mar 2012

insured that I would never, ever stray from the Democratic Party.

Don't those Republicans ever learn? What dummies. Sorry to use such an epithet, but it is true.

 

MichiganVote

(21,086 posts)
6. Three women in my conservative neighborhood just switched off the Republican Taliban.
Mon Mar 26, 2012, 05:35 PM
Mar 2012

All Christians and none of them want Republicans to treat women poorly. All of them said that the Republicans don't believe in the power of prayer to change the hearts of people when it comes to abortion. Each said that Jesus was a friend to women, regardless of their sins.

That's an interesting point of view I thought. Tuff' to argue with. While I am proudly pro-choice, I respect their right to have a view that is different from mine but fair minded.

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