Interesting exchange w/neighbors this AM re: vote

[SensibleOne]

My neighbors are having a yard sale today and my hubby and I went over to check it out...
Back to last Xmas, when the wife came over to give us a gift of some homemade yummies, I had the news on (as usual) and *ush was on for some reason. She turned to me and said "he's wonderful, isn't he?" Boy, was she in the wrong house for that statement! I told her how I feel about him and that he's the worst president of my lifetime in my opinion. She said, "so, you don't like to listen to Rush Limbaugh?" I'm not making this up, she "assumed" I listened to Rush? On what planet? I gave her my opinion of that RW scumbag in a polite but firm way. She left.
Forward to today at the yard sale. I was talking with her husband about items they were selling and a man walked up the driveway and said "did you vote yet?" My first thought was WTF? How's that for an opening line? The husband said "yes, absentee." The man said, "hope is was for Kerry." haha. The husband said, absolutely, I can't stand *ush. In the background his wife yelled across the yard "shut up, Jim, I don't want to hear it." The husband (Jim) turned to me and said, "she hates it that I voted for Kerry, she just loves *ush and I don't know why, I was Union for 35 years, that bought her this house. I hated *ush 2 days into his term." I said well, it's obvious who we are voting for with our yard signs, and I hated him when the election was stolen in 2000" he said, "you got that right."
My point: This whole year since we bought this house, I "assumed" they were BOTH screaming RWers like his wife. It's wonderful for me to know that he supports Dems. It will probably change my relationship with him.

[MADem]

1. It'll probably change his relationship with her, too!!! n/t

[SensibleOne]

3. LOL!

funny.

[trumad]

4. I'll tell you why

she stay's home and watches Faux and listens to Rush during the day. Just like my Mom...

[SensibleOne]

7. Yes, Trumad...

she does, I hear it (Faux) screaming from the windows. She is sooo far gone. Retired hubby does yardwork all day, every day. He even offered to mow our lawn and pulls weeds when we're not looking! He's bored.

[SeanQ]

9. I hope it doesn't!

I'd hate to see politics break up another family. Hopefully they either are happy with each other and just don't discus politics too often, or that with her husband and neighbors, over time, she'll become at least a very moderate republican. Just politely feed her truth in easy to digest little pieces.

[Hog lover]

2. Shows you can't assume family members agree

My family is so split on politics that we can't even talk about it. I try to give them information on the Bush Fascist Regime, and they ignore it or tell me to stop. One sister actually said she doesn't follow current events or politics - I think that explains a lot about her support for *.

[Shopaholic]

5. Tell your neighbor to listen to one Al Franken show--

where he goes through OxyRush's lies one by one and exposes him for what he really is-a liar just like *. Maybe that will open her eyes up. I'm glad to hear that her hubby hasn't been "blinded by the right" too. That's one more vote for us!

[Longhorn]

6. When I met my husband, the first two things on my mind

(after the fact that I was physically attracted to him!) were his politics and his (lack of) religion. While he was a liberal, he didn't consider himself a Democrat because he was sort of "anti-party."

Recently, he asked me (in a joking way) how I ever managed to turn him into a Democrat! It only took me 30 years but he's come to realize that we have to work with the system that we have if we're going to elect leaders whose views mostly mesh with ours.

This is so important to me that I just can't imagine being married to a man whose political views were substantially different from mine!

[pacalo]

8. Same here -- I don't know how I could live with my husband if he were

Republican. We met when Carter was president, during the Iran hostage days when "Nightline" was conceived. We shared the same opinions of both Carter & Reagan & shared the same values. That wasn't the clincher for our getting married but it surely was icing on the cake.

These days, he's not into politics like I am, but at least he sees the coWard for what he is & will be voting for Kerry.