Shocker of my day, my Republican mother is for Bernie...

[Barack_America]

For a little backstory, my mother has historically been for the Republican "brand"; certainly not a true conservative, but a reliable Republican voter. She's the typical "bitter" Caucasian voter that Obama got scolded for accurately describing, convinced her opportunities and fruits of her labor were taken from her and handed down to "moochers". Even before Reagan.

The Bush and tea party eras were enough to sour her of self-identifying as Republican, but she has still never voted for a Dem. I knew she would never in a million years vote for a Clinton, and I knew she would hate Trump, so I was very curious how she was leaning this year. I pegged her as either siding with a Republican "also ran", or, more likely, just sitting the election out.

Imagine my surprise when she announced, "I like Sanders, I think I'm voting for him."

Excuse me, come again?

Here's her process:
1. Hates Trump and is just basically done with Republicans at the moment. So annoyed with Trump she's not even willing to wade through the rest of the Republican candidates. The brand is dead to her.
2. Still despises all things Clinton.
3. So, she started to listen to and read about Sanders. "Likes him". "Believes he means what he says". Willing to register as a Democrat for the first time in her life to vote for him.

What? I even point out that he is a "Socialist". She shrugs her shoulders. The former curse word, "socialist", is now a shoulder shrug.

Mind blown.

That's it. Feel free to come at me with your "cool story, bro" responses. It was cool, completely unexpected and I'm still trying to wrap my mind around this.

Enjoy your day.

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

2. I believe King Flores just called your mother horrible.

classy.

[KingFlorez]

5. I sure did

The person the OP described sounds absolutely horrible. Moochers? That's the sort of talk bigots use. I call things as I see them.

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

10. I tend to think of people like her as misinformed

The fact that she is voting for Bernie over any of the Repubs who would tend to reinforce the "moocher" views tells me she has had a change of heart or seen the errors of her ways in at least a limited way.

When you demonize people like her you only polarize them and push them away. I'd prefer to have a new Democratic voter than a more polarized Repub voter.

[cui bono]

11. You are way out of line. You should self-delete.

And with that attitude you will assure nobody ever sees the light. You are hurting more than helping.

.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

21. Agree with you, fo sho... shameful.

[panader0]

27. Despicable

[Amimnoch]

45. Not cool at all.

My own Grandmother, age 92 is, for the first time in her life registered to vote.. at all! Her very first vote will be for a woman President. She also has some very out dated world views because she comes from a different time and place. For some background, I'm in a gay interracial marriage, and Hell, it took her years before she stopped referring to my husband as "that jigaboo" (VERY derogatory term for black people in the old language). She has come a long way since, but still... it was difficult to say the least. Luckily I'm married to the most wonderful, and understanding man on earth (imo), who also happened to have a grandmother who was.. displeased.. with our relationship and more recently our nuptials.

People can evolve, and adapt. for older people it can take more time and more persuasion. The fact that the OP's mom is that open and moving forward, regardless of who she is supporting is something that should be celebrated imo.

[Unknown Beatle]

71. Hillary on gay marriage.

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Sorry, Hillary, Gay Rights Advocates Say Bernie Is Right On DOMA History




You're in a gay interracial marriage, and you're for Hillary. It's your right to choose whoever you please in the primaries, but I honestly think you're choosing the wrong candidate. Bernie has always been for gay marriage and has never backed down on that position. Hillary, on the other hand, has always been strongly against gay marriage until it became politically expedient. But that's not the only thing on why you should switch sides.

Know thy candidates.

[Lorien]

4. People often have a change of heart in their old age

my mom went from bra burning liberal feminist atheist to born again right wing Southern Baptist Republican. I would have preferred it if the reverse were true.

[KingFlorez]

6. It does happen

People can indeed change. I was just put off by the moochers line, which really rings of the worst kind of bigoted paranoia.

[Barack_America]

14. To be clear, "moochers" was my verbiage to sum up her position.

I don't believe I've heard her use that term. But, yes, she has been politically frustrating my entire life. I'm very pleased she's starting to realize the real forces at play here.

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[Barack_America]

8. Racist? Not to my knowledge.

Just the type of person who doesn't understand the cycle of poverty, believes that because she worked hard to better her situation, that opportunity is available to all.

I certainly hope the Democratic Party is open to voters now just realizing that the money has been going up, not down, and that's the problem.

[cui bono]

12. Speak for yourself. And you owe the OP an apology for insulting his/her mother ffs.

.

[thesquanderer]

16. Without addressing your slight on the person in question...

we want EVERYONE voting for our candidates, whether we agree with them about everything or not. The more people who "stay with the GOP where they belong," the worse off we ALL are.

[Lorien]

3. Bernie always pulls in at least 20% of the GOP vote in his home State

for the same reasons. They know that he's honest, even if they don't agree with his policies, and that matters a lot!

[stonecutter357]

7. all the Republicans i have talked to

say they are voting for sanders in the Primary and then changing to Republican general election.

[jeff47]

18. And the problem with that is....?

If they succeed and get Sanders nominated, and all the Clinton supporters vote for sanders as they said they will, we still win.

[geologic]

20. You need the secret decoder ring...

[jeff47]

25. Nah, just waiting for the purity-based argument. (nt)

[rhett o rick]

82. That's a very simple concept to follow so why support Clinton?

I think that hero infatuation governs in some cases. Some would rather vote for Clinton even if you prove Sanders will do better in the General, because of authoritarian infatuation.

[Shadowflash]

49. Good.

[disillusioned73]

75. I remember that story..

it was used around 2008 as well - if it was the case then it backfired, and if it is the case now.. guess what

I get a whole different sense from my Repub loyalist here in my are (& there are a lot) - Bernie is making them very nervous..

[rhett o rick]

81. All the Republicans I have talked to say they are voting Sanders in the Primary and the General.

They are glad to have an honest candidate to vote for.

[stonecutter357]

84. " this posts has been hidden by a DU Jury" DanTex.

Republicans are liars and crooks.

[LWolf]

9. My mom,

a lover of all things Clinton since the 90s, is now a Sanders supporter.

Her process:

1. "He gets it."
2. "She doesn't," and
3. "I can't believe her anymore."

[FrostyAusty]

29. Similar story but w/grandma

Lifelong dem, proud feminist, Hillary supporter in '08.. Even got in a fight with my aunt over Barack vs Hillary in '08.. Needless to say I thought for sure she was going to be for Hillary again this time around, so when I asked her at Thanksgiving earlier this year who she was supporting I was shocked.. With no hesitation in her voice at all she said "I'm voting for Bernie. I don't trust Hillary anymore and there is too much money corrupting our politics ." I was in awe... I couldn't fully believe it though, I thought maybe she was just saying that to make myself and the other grandkids happy and avoid conflict.. A month later Christmas rolls around and I'm at Grandma's lookin at the fridge when I see it... A postcard from the Bernie campaign thanking her for her donation!! Best Christmas gift Grandma could give to her grandkids.. A future we can be hopeful about!!

[LWolf]

31. One at a time, they are

looking past her to Bernie.

[Autumn]

41. You just described me.

[GreenPartyVoter]

13. I am hearing more and more of these stories. I think enough people are

so pissed off at how broken and wasteful the government is, and about working so hard and having so little to show for it, that Bernie is really resonating with them.

[Barack_America]

17. I think people are just desperate to trust a politician again.

Her interest in Sanders is 100% born out of a perception of honesty.

Although, from a policy standpoint, I am interested in a potential shift in Boomer Republican politics now they are using more of the benefits they were once so opposed to.

[GreenPartyVoter]

19. Yes, I consider dishonesty to be a part of our broken and corrupt government, and you are

absolutely right as far as Boomer mindsets changing now that they need help. Life is very hard for seniors who don't have nest eggs to draw upo!

[MisterP]

39. that's how Reagan got in--by blaming poor economics on the "bureaucrats" and the Dems

and Rockefeller Republicans: he had a brand-NEW economics to Make America Great Again

[Jefferson23]

22. As misguided as voters who support Trump are, conservatives who are of the middle class

and lower have expressed that if an establishment candidate in the Republican
party gets the nomination, they will vote for Sanders.

To what percent? I have no idea, it just surprised me how much they
don't want what their side is selling...as you say, totally unexpected.

[TTUBatfan2008]

24. The electorate in general is fed up...

with status quo politicians who are all owned by mega money corporate interests. This can be summed up best by Jeb Bush's failure. He has more big money backing him than anyone other than Clinton.

[Jefferson23]

35. Yea, you notice how when Trump calls them out using the words, special interest, to combat

against them? They do not respond by saying..no, that's not true! lol They can't.

I freely admit, I have enjoyed watching the Bush legacy burn to the ground,
Jeb! blew it as soon as he conceded he could not use his last name while
campaigning.

Sucks to be a Bush even in the Republican Party.

[GeoWilliam750]

51. I do not think that Jeb actually wanted to be president

[Motown_Johnny]

74. They want money out of politics. One issue voters.

If we can't land them with Bernie they will turn to Trump.

[cosmicone]

23. It IS the republican strategy - doh

Republicans want Bernie Sanders to get the nomination so any clown they put up will win a 49 state victory.

It is called the "Claire McCaskill strategy"

[Live and Learn]

28. All polls prove you wrong. But don't let that stop you. nt

[cosmicone]

40. Those polls are meaningless a year ahead. n/t

[Jefferson23]

54. Could you post the meaningful polls? n/t

[cosmicone]

58. There aren't any

However, common sense tells me that the republicans would define Bernie as a marxist communist who wants a revolution and who will tax everyone to death to give freebies to freeloaders. That is what republicans do.

Bernie will be lucky if he won Vermont with that barrage. Approximately $2 billion will be spent to demolish him and his small donors won't be able to keep pace.

Bernie is getting a free ride and people are allowing him to skate on the specifics. It won't work in the GE. He will have to tell what his tax brackets will be and what his new tax rate will be. Then he will become another Mondale.

You may find the "revolution" as a very strong phenomenon on reddit, facebook, DU and twitter but there is a whole world out there. The way the electoral college is, Bernie will have to win Ohio, Florida, North Carolina AND Virginia and that will be impossible under the barrage of "marxist commie taxing people to death for redistribution" memes.

I did wake up and smell the coffee a long time ago. Electability is the MAIN reason I am voting for Hillary. Bernie is a good man and I agree with him on most things. He. Is. Just. Not. Electable.

[Jefferson23]

60. Ok, thanks and I appreciate your perspective, although I disagree.

The revolt is not merely among Democrats and millennials, Republicans
are experiencing something they have not seen before, different than the Tea Party.
There are differences in appeal except for one, corruption in politics...they're
unified on that front. I am not convinced they'll buy into Kasich, either.

[UnBlinkingEye]

65. Electability

Hillary proved she wasn't electable in 2008, she will prove it again soon. Kissinger, Iraq, Goldman Sachs...

[cosmicone]

68. None of those are liabilities in the GE

They are liabilities in the "revolutionary echo chamber" only

[UnBlinkingEye]

69. "Revolutionary echo chamber"

Is in Hillary's head.

First:

Barack, Barack, Barack...

Now:

Bernie, Bernie, Bernie...

[mhatrw]

79. People hating her and not trusting her are not liabilities in the GE?

All of you "Hillary is more electable" apologists live in a bizarre world in which personalities have no effect on voting. For some bizarre reason, it does not matter to you that well over 50% of voters dislike Clinton, nor does it matter to you that well over 75% of voters think Clinton is untrustworthy. To you, the only thing that affect voters is where a candidate lies on some bullshit 20-year-old corporate media and conservative think tank left-right spectrum. To you, if a candidate is too far left, he or she is simply unelectable.

Taxes were once a dirty word no matter who they were applied to. But now the vast majority of Americans agrees the rich pay too far little in taxes.

Single payer healthcare was once a nonstarter, but now the vast majority of Americans knows healthcare costs are out of control and everybody feel the pain of the current system.

Keeping our military "strong" was once the number one national priority. But after Iraq, more and more people have come to realize what a complete counterproductive scam our rampant military misadventurism is.

Free trade was once all the rage. But income inequality has gotten so bad that even Thomas Friedman is afraid to go to bat for the TPP in print.

The easiest way to get voters used to be to promise to put everyone in jail and throw away the key. But the pendulum has now swung so far in the direction of a police state that putting kids in jail for pot possession scares us more than Willie Horton does.

The current political climate in nothing like it was when an establishment liberal ran against an establishment conservative 32 years ago.

Do you realize that things change? Do you understand that the pendulum swings left whenever it has gone so far right that threatens to destroy our whole demand based economy? Have you even looked the voting preferences of those under 40? Has this made any impression on you whatsoever?

To elect Sanders in a landslide, all we have to do convince a few more people over 40 what almost everybody under 40 already knows. Enough is enough!

[cosmicone]

80. She has been the most admired woman for 20 years in a row

"People hating her and not trusting her" is a meme that reverberates only in the aforementioned revolutionary echo chamber.

To me, she is a brilliant lawyer who has had an illustrious career. In the dash for freebies some people are maligning her and it is grossly unfair.

Would President Obama have selected her to be the SOS in his admin if she was so untrustworthy?

[mhatrw]

83. I am not saying this is 100% fair. I am saying that this is what the polls say.

How do you propose to change the hearts and minds of everybody who does not like her and finds her untrustworthy?

[cosmicone]

87. The polls say it because people like you repeat it ad nauseum

and play into republican hands.

Stop doing it and put your differences with Hillary in a constructive light.

Calling her corrupt and untrustworthy is just a smear. Calling her not liberal-enough or third way or whatever is fair criticism.

[mhatrw]

93. What is the Clinton's current net worth?

How much of their total lifetime "earnings" have they extracted from banksters and corporate profiteers?

Where did all their total lifetime "earnings" go considering that they have "earned" more than double their current reported net worth?

[cosmicone]

96. What difference does it make?

Are you envious of people having money? They reported the income and paid taxes. Big deal.

JFK was rich and his wealth was inherited from liquor smuggling. He still became one of the greatest presidents.

[mhatrw]

97. The difference it makes is the appearance of corruption. nt

[cosmicone]

98. The "appearance" of corruption is in some people's minds

Hillary lives under a microscope - if she were to get as much as a parking ticket it would be big news. If she had really been corrupt, she would have been finished a long time ago.

Also, would Obama have appointed a corrupt person to be SOS? HE CHOSE HER.

[mhatrw]

104. Who in the establishment media or Repuke party would take her to task for eating from the $ame

trough they all eat from?

[NurseJackie]

36. You can't be any clearer than that!

[Z_California]

46. That's just, like, your opinion man

I disagree. So do millions of others. Bernie will dominate the Independent vote and it will be a landslide, not the one you're predicting though.

This is something different. Normal Beltway conventional wisdom is useless right now. Ask HRC's campaign about that. The GOP is self-destructing before our eyes.

I hope you're not right. But I'm pretty sure you're dead wrong.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

90. Actually, that's the Humphrey strategy....

Where the party insiders tossed the hippies out of the convention and appointed a hawk that handed the presidency to Nixon.

[cosmicone]

91. It was a 4 candidate contest back then

and Vietnam war was the major issue.

None of those conditions exist right now. There is a difference between young people saying "I don't want to die in Vietnam" and those saying "We want free stuff"

[Spitfire of ATJ]

94. LOL!!! You think THAT is what Bernie is about???

[cosmicone]

95. Yep

The major difference between Bernie and Hillary is that Bernie is giving out more free stuff.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

99. I had someone visit over the holidays that said that but they support Trump.

[cosmicone]

100. It is ok for Bernie who doesn't care if a democrat gets elected.

He just wants to be the nominee for his ego gratification and doesn't care how many people he will end up hurting by facilitating the election of a republican.

So he wildly offers free stuff to get votes from rebellious students.

Hillary is being responsible and only offering limited free stuff that can actually get through congress.

It is very simple -- if you had 0% chance of getting $1,000,000 and 45% chance of getting $14,800, the young and impressionable will choose the $1,000,000 every time.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

101. Is that the kind of things Hillary supporters tell each other?

I suppose you look at all of the people showing up at Bernie rallies and think of them as a bunch of stupid moochers.

[cosmicone]

102. President Ron Paul also had big rallies. Wait ... oops! n/t

[Spitfire of ATJ]

103. So did President Obama.....

I remember it was dismissed back then too.

[Old Codger]

26. More of that

Happening than we know about I would bet... hilary has lost more than she can ever hope to recover and Bernie is doing what Bernie does and winning

[NCTraveler]

30. I don't think many of us are that shocked at this trend. nt.

[femmedem]

32. My father-in-law is also a lifelong Republican voter who prefers Sanders.

He says Sanders reminds him of FDR and Truman.

He started to come around when he realized that the Iraq war was based on a lie, and has been gradually becoming more open to voting for Democrats.

[Paulie]

33. When people can vote FOR someone instead of AGAINST

It's a whole different dynamic. One the Clinton side can't seem to grasp, in the context of disaffected voters. My 85yo mom also hates hearing about trump on TV.

[GreenPartyVoter]

52. Absolutely true!

I love having the feeling of voting for someone I really want much more than settling for someone in order to keep someone worse out of office.

[Matariki]

34. Republicans in my family as well.

Pretty much the same thing. Although I wouldn't call them 'bitter', but self identified 'fiscal conservatives' and 'moderate' republicans.

I'm delighted they are leaning toward Sanders, but definitely baffled.

[Enthusiast]

37. I find it hilarious that the Republicans destroyed the shock value of "Socialist".

They called any moderate Democrat a Socialist for decades. They even called Obama a Socialist.

More unintended consequences from the GOP.

[Nyan]

77. Perhaps because they've used the word so much that they neutralized it?

Because EVERYTHING is socialism, right?
"Obama's a socialist, Obamacare is a socialist," Blah blah blah blah blah blah just day in and day out ranting and raving and conflating the word with everything, and one day, it might have reached a point where they'd be yelling "But, but, but, he's a socialist!" and people would go "Meh. So what? We've lived under Obama socialism already"

IDK It is hilarious anyway.

[MisterP]

38. that's the "Sanders difference": he's not just honest, he shows how pushbutton issues

have been used to divide, to get us 99.9%ers blaming each other and ignoring the system

[Wilms]

42. "The former curse word, "socialist", is now a ..."

Go, Mom! Go, Bernie!

[Ferd Berfel]

44. Even republicans are figuring out that the Fascism just hasn't been working.

[concreteblue]

85. Sinclare was recently paraphrased:

"When Fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in excess body fat and be carrying a miss-spelled sign."

[Ferd Berfel]

92. Shit HAppens

[LiberalLovinLug]

61. "The former curse word, "socialist", is now a shoulder shrug."

Faux News, Limpballs, Hannity, Coulter etc.... screwed up bad.

By incessantly repeating the word over and over. And by labeling anyone and everything SOCIALISM, from the privately run "Obamacare" to the idea of the 95% supported basic gun-buying background checks, they have effectively de-thorned the word. When everything is called Socialism, it loses its sting.

[Ferd Berfel]

43. THIS is what will continue to occur for Bernie.

It WILL NOT occur for Hillary.

In fact quite the opposite will happen. Republican will come out (that would have otherwise stayed home) just to vote against HIllary.

[phylny]

48. I agree, and I say this as a Democrat who would without hesitation

vote for Hillary if she is the nominee.

I live in the south, and the hatred toward Hillary is real and it's not going away. Bernie, on the other hand, will not win over the Evangelicals because they're so Republican (Hillary doesn't have a chance, either), even Trump is better to them than any Democrat (see the support from Liberty University for a thrice-married adulterer). Bernie can and will win over Democrats and Independents alike, and probably fed-up Republicans.

I mentioned this on another thread, but my Republican, gun-toting, Liberty University graduate personal trainer said she'd vote for Bernie.

[retrowire]

47. bro story cool

No seriously thouhg, that's awesome!

[DinahMoeHum]

50. That's how we reach 'em. One by one by one by one by one. . .

. . .by one by one. . .

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

53. But...but...He's unelectable!!

[Betty Karlson]

55. But all that cross-over appeal means Sanders is unelectable, right?

Debbie certainly thinks so; why else would she tip the scales for Clinton at every turn?

[rocktivity]

56. It most certianly explains why both she and Trump are in panic mode.

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"Crossover appeal" is what put Obama over -- what I called the mortified moderates, embarrassed evangelicals, worried women, and itchy independents. It was all over for Romney when he refused to show his tax returns: it cost him the one edge he had over Obama with independent voters. And now we can welcome repulsed Republicans into the fold.

Trump crossed the line by trying to bash Jeb with 9/11, and he knows it, as evidenced by describing his being booed for it as the work of shills and lobbyists and his recent threats to run as a third party candidate. It might be enough to inject oxygen into Jeb's campaign. But aside from that, what ARE Republicans repulsed by Trump more likely to do -- stay home, or hold their noses and vote for him, Hillary...or Bernie?


rocktivity

[Betty Karlson]

72. Clinton can panick as much as she wants, it's Sanders who will be president. eom

[mikehiggins]

57. I do not believe us old folks are looking past Hillary to Sanders.

I believe us old folks are looking past Hillary to our grand-children. We can see where "business as usual" and "same old, same old" has gotten us and want more and better for the kids.

Don't discount the power of love.

[Bill USA]

59. not surprising, she want the GOP to win in November. She buys all GOP McCarthyist Propaganda on HRC

so she is still a Republican.

I think their are many Republicans who are working to help Bernie get the nomination so any GOP candidate will win in a 'walk'. She has complete confidene- well taken - in the GOP's ability to demagogue and demonize any opponent. Bernie, self proclaimed 'socialist', will be easy pickin's for the Masters of McCarthyism.

[Barack_America]

70. I can assure you she will not vote for Trump or Cruz.

She made up her mind about Hillary 25 years ago.

If it's Trump or Cruz, she'll either vote for Sanders or sit. I've been down this round with her before with Obama. Never could get her to vote for him. She didn't trust him. Apparently she has a keen nose for sincerity.

[Uncle Joe]

62. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for sharing, Barack_America.

[Populist_Prole]

63. I'm working on my fiancee

I've gotta be tactful though. Misinformed or under-informed but thinks she's in the know: Gets pretty much all her news/info from breif watchings corporate MSM and Facebook "wall" comments. Republican by default but not at all a true conservative, and not even that political but is much like the way you describe your mother. Also there's kind of a vague/general "I'm doing the right thing but no one else is" attitude and is IMO, irrationally patriotic to the point of being inane. "America, love it or leave it" type. Her heart bleeds for "the troops" and law-enforcement officers; where she gets this and how she comes to feel such a connection, I have no idea. Sometimes she sounds like a real fascist and I kid her about that.

She liked Trump and Christie for the usual their tough-talk "tell it like it is" demeanor. I have tactfully and clinically pointed out out where those two, and indeed all the GOP candidates are very very hostile to the economic well being of our socio-economic class and I could tell the wheels were turning inside her head and she kind of agreed with me, but just pauses, then says "I've always been more for republicans than democrats...so was my ( late ) father" or somesuch blather.

I have to work slowly and steadily; like a river carving through stone to make a canyon.

[Barack_America]

66. I seriously didn't even plan to bring it up.

It just goes to show, there is value in talking to Republicans about the election, be it for Sanders or Clinton. There is hope.

Best of luck to you.

[mvd]

64. Great news! Thanks for sharing

I've been trying to get my parents to support Bernie, but I have accepted they are voting for Hillary. My mom thinks it's her time and she is one of the most qualified ever. My dad just pretty much goes along. They like Bernie, but spout the "no we can't" line. I suppose I am just happy my dad is a good Democrat, as his parents were Repubicans. I appreciate your story! It shows how Bernie's message could cross party lines.

[wakemewhenitsover]

67. Had a similar experience with my dad...

Me: "But he's against everything you support."
Dad: "How do you know what I support?!"

[Motown_Johnny]

73. What if it is Trump v Clinton? Then who does she vote for?

I'm betting she either doesn't vote or votes for Trump, along with some more (R)s since she is voting for one on the top of the ticket.

[k8conant]

76. Your mom just made my day...

[Nyan]

78. May I ask why your mother dislikes Trump? I'm curious.

I've seen many conservatives who are sick of the republican party going for Trump.
I'm guessing perhaps she dislikes his bluster and vulgarity...?

[in_cog_ni_to]

86. Smart mom! All of the GOP hates everything Clinton, so I'm not surprised your mom gravitated to

Bernie. To know him is to love him!

PEACE
LOVE
BERNIE

[Android3.14]

88. My mother also said she was going for Bernie

She said the Republicans are just too crazy, and she said will never cast a vote for someone as untrustworthy and changeable as Clinton.

[SusanaMontana41]

89. Is she voting for him because he's sexy? I am.

Your mom will have to wait her turn/