Reply #94: Born to a Repub and a Don't Ask [View All]

[TorchTheWitch]

My mom is a Repub mostly because her best friend was a rabid Repub and she's very attached to the Catholic Church. Dad was pretty high up in the military, and one never questioned him about that stuff. He never ever ever ever so much as mentioned anything at all that smelled remotely connected to national security. He was pretty socially liberal but also concerned about fiscal responsibility.

I can tell you my dad would be utterly horrified by the disaster that is the Bush admin. When I was a kid and the whole Watergate scandal went down, although he never breathed a word one could tell that he was livid over that. Ever after you couldn't so much as whisper the word "Nixon" in his presence or his eyes would cross and the veins in his neck would start throbbing. If he was alive today, he might even have broken his life long silence on political issues and would have bellowed and thrown things. Dad was very rabid about Constitutional rights. The stomping on the Constitution would have him apocalyptic... I would suspect that alone would have had him roll over in his grave so much he would have dug himself up.

Mom, on the other hand, has been very difficult to deal with when it comes to politics. She loved Bush. She listens to Rush, reads Ann Coulter and is the epitome of the good flag waving patriot. But Mom is like that... she was raised to not question anything (thinking deep thoughts on anything is very hard for her). At this point, she just thinks that Bush is a lame duck. She's not happy with the beating up on Medicare and Social Security, but no matter what, she'll vote Repub even if she has to hold her nose to do it, mostly because of moral social issues. But that all depends on what affects her personally. She is against sex before marriage, is pretty rabidly anti-abortion, but she has a gay son and a husband who she pulled the plug on... she will fight to the death anyone that tries to pass laws that says one can't allow a loved one on life support to die when she knows that's what they would want or discrimination against gays. With these two issues and her attachment to the Catholic Church, this has been a real struggle for her, but she came out on the right side. Once she realized what side she was on with these two issues, she became completely rabid about it.