How close is the closest Republican to you?

[Dees]

My wife is a former Repuke. Still holds some conservative views i.e. immigration but for the most part I totally converted her. She was on the fence years ago when we married. Hates Bu$h! Her family is another story. All neo-cons.

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Hubby is fairly conservative.. in-laws are Repubs, although BIL is

leaning even more conservative than that. Loves Michael Savage, for example.

[kansasblue]

2. too close. And no signs of weakening.

Just anger! Friggin' Democrats! Don't need a reason. Hate 'em!

(too close)

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Only Republican I know of is my brother-in-law and he hates Bush!

[grrl62]

4. my parents were...

then i converted them before 2000. :evilgrin:

rethugs: next in line would be cousins on both sides...

[Darkhawk32]

5. In-laws are Repukes. Make snide comments about Democrats once in a while.

Will have to tell them that Republicans are nothing but bloody-thirty vampires waiting to kill at a moment's notice.

[ArkDem]

30. Just hope they never step up to being bloody-forty.

[Darkhawk32]

35. hehe... whoops. Blood thirsty. Sleep deprivation takes away my typing...

skills.

:silly:

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

6. I am Republican Free!!!! n/t

[ailsagirl]

7. NONE!! Except some misinformed souls at work. No one in my

personal life, thank God.

:kick:

[AllyCat]

8. My manager. And she knows I hate *

Fiance is a recovered Reagan Republican...he is now a Green and voted for Kerry.

[cmf]

9. My inlaws are all Republicans

I don't know how much they like Bush, and they've never tried to convert us to their ways. Most of the political stuff we talk about are things we agree on. For repukes, they are incredibly tolerant of differing views. They are the only nice Republicans I know.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

10. My mother-in-law

She voted for * in 2000 because she associated Gore with Clenis and she voted * in 2004 over the gay marriage issue. She's none too bright. My wife (a gay rights activist) doesn't get along well with her.

[CottonBear]

11. My mother & brother, all of my aunts, uncles, cousins & my in-laws.

:( Mr. CottonBear is firmly in the left-wing of the Democratic party camp with me. We're working on his daughter who is not yet of voting age. We make her watch C-Span and Sunday morning political talk shows with us. (She's not thrilled about that!)
We pray that she doesn't turn into a Republican. :scared:

edit: practically all of my co-workers are Republican too. :(
My friends are another story. I only have two Republican friends and one of them didn't bother to vote in the last election.

[yardwork]

12. in-laws - but I rarely see them

It irks me that I'm not allowed to discuss politics or spirituality with the in-laws. Apparently my spouse thinks they would have a heart attack if they learned I was a Pagan Socialist.

As a matter of fact, we're separating. This issue contributed.

[CottonBear]

17. Sorry to hear about the separation.

I like the Pagan Socialist label! I think that's what I'll call myself from now on when confronted by a self-proclaimed Christian Conservatives! There's a bumper sticker to be made from that phrase!

[yardwork]

40. Thanks CottonBear. It's all for the best.

There's a fine line between being polite and nonconfrontational, and simply having to completely stuff one's identity. I believe in the former but not the latter.

[Bellamia]

18. Well, Politics & Religion........

have always been topics "verboten", banned, in "polite society."
I learned that early on, and it galls me at times that I hear opinions I'd love to rebutt, but if I want to keep the Peace, I keep my mouth shut in certain quarters. My closest Republican "friend" is just up the street, she knows my views, and we exist in a friendly truce. I just hope I live long enough to prove her and the rest of the Repukes, wrong! We are both Senior Citizens.

[WeRQ4U]

13. Father in Law is REALLY conservative. He always wants to argue with me.

I always avoid it. He's also a fairly fundamentalist christian (son of an Assembly of God minister). We get a long fine, just so long as he doesn't try to harp on me about politics.

[YOY]

14. One of my best friends from High School

Nice enough guy but has the depth of a turnip and looooooves Fox News. He has never traveled (and is afraid to visit Europe), drinks to get drunk, and hates to debate anything (usually because I wrap his head around a telephone pole every time.) He views me as the token liberal who has never had a 'real job' and is overeducated (Seven languages, extensive travel, an MBA...and I'm just wrong about everything!)

:rofl:


He dishes out this neo-con crap about poor people getting plenty of opportunities and and yet he works for his father.

This is in Ohio's dying economy sadly.

[newportdadde]

15. My two closest and really only friends are both Republican.

One is just a libertarian in denail though. Both are greedy and care about one thing $. So I at least get their viewpoint even if I don't share it. Basically we don't talk about politics or religion. Its not that hard because neither one of these guys pays attention to ANYTHING remotely political except every 4 years, then they jump on the talking points bandwagon and start shotting around those fake emails. I still remember the one that said something like "Edwards worked trials that made it harder to get the flu vacine or some crap."

My wife is a Democrat as well are most of my relatives thankfully.

[CrackpotAmerica]

16. Pretty much my whole family!! HELP!! :)

My uncle, whom I love dearly, is a member of the religious right. We disagree constantly.

But I am empathetic to his faith. It was his faith that brought him back from heroin, which would have killed him and left me to live my life without such a tremendous person in my life.

So, although I despise his position, I love the man. I suppose we'll just have to keep on arguing. I prefer that tho the alternative!


Thx

[yorkiemommie1]

19. my husband

been married 31 years.

he's pro-Bush, pro-war, pro-choice, anti-fundie. our marriage seriously hovered on the brink last year.

[Ysolde]

20. My brother and

my husband's sister, both Fundies. Both strong Shrub supporters (seems like unborn children are the only ones they care about). I don't associate with either and I'm working on excising my sister-in-law from all aspects of my children's lives as well (already done with my brother). I just will not have them influencing my children.

on edit: also about 80% of my co-workers, but at least my closest friends are either non-political, or progressive or I'd go nuts.

[guruoo]

21. Most libs I know believe...

immigration enforcement is too lax.

[jojo54]

22. The ones I know, I stay away from.

Fortunately, there are none in my immediate family.

[malta blue]

23. My dad is...ugh

and all the people in his office are surprised that is pride and joy daughter is a raging liberal...
He is NOT one of the fundy, neo-con types, so I guess I will keep him (not that I have much of a choice)

[DemGirl7]

24. My brother in law is a independent who leans republican

On Social issues, he is liberal, but he is more of a defense repuke, meaning that he believes republicans can keep the country "safer". And he actually likes Bush with is so weird, because Bush and the repukes have made the country less safe. I hope to convert him, with the help of my sister,who is his wife, and a left leaning independent. By the way they have gotten in fights over politics, if you were wondering, like on this past election night.

[andyhappy]

25. father hates bush...but...

father hates bush but he couldn't vote for Kerry because he was running with that damn trial lawyer....

aie yi yi!

[OhioChick]

26. My Mother-in-law.............

is a raging Repuke. Craziest woman you'd ever meet. Only reason she voted for * was because he was against abortion. Hubby tried to convert her, but she fell off the stupid tree and hit every branch on the way down. Fortunately, she doesn't come to visit anymore.........lucky me.

[Lumily]

27. Just about everybody.

My father, mother (they are divorced for 34 years), my in-laws, brother-in-law, all our neighbors, my best friend for 31 years...sigh...it sucks.

[FuzzyDicePHL]

28. My mom

Unfort, her conservative BF seems to've swayed her -- and this after leading a life that would lead one kinda to assume she'd vote Democrat (daughter's teen abortion; gay son; discrimination from being a divorced woman in small-town NC in the 70s -- professionally and personally; learning, then teaching health sciences at universities until the mid-90s when she retired to live on her sailboat!).

Fortunately, I'll have plenty of things to discuss with her thanks to Chimpy et al, come Fall of next year. :)

[KitchenWitch]

29. My dad is a Rush loving, neo con

He calls ME fascist.

[MattSWin]

31. Almost entire family loves Bush...

But they're mostly apolitical and vote based on the image a candidate presents.

If I ask them why they support Bush they have really no discernible reason.

[marions ghost]

32. after many years

of being thrown with Repugs I've developed a true allergy. I NEVER let them get what you'd call "close." If someone happens to identify as a Republican (in the moderate sense) I TRY to think neutrally--ie. just "Go in Peace." That's the best I can muster anymore. True Neo-Cons are verboten. I don't put up with devils ever, on any level.

[sldavis]

33. parents, grandparents, aunts...

my family is full of Republicans (but pro-choice, interestingly). Husband is quite liberal, and his parents are moderately liberal, but just started going to a fundy church, so we're starting to worry.

Physically, the closest republican to me is about 15 feet away, in the next office. I'm surrounded at work.

[progressivebydesign]

34. In-laws are Bush fans and solid republicans.

Sadly, my MIL was a life-long Democrat from a long line of Democrats.. until she married a good ol' boy, now she's as red-state as he is. They're lovely people.. just totally clueless and frankly greedy because everything they use as a talking point has to do with money.

ON EDIT: The good news is except for a brother in law and his family that are kind of religiously whacked out and Bush-loving, every single person around me has always been true blue Democrats.

[Imalittleteapot]

36. My son and I are the only Dems in our entire

family (including my husband) and extended family and most of our friends. My repuke husband is coming around and spreading some of the info I get from DU and I feed him to his ultra conservative friends, who are amazed at things like DSM, number of dead Iraqi citizens, Plame affair...all things they haven't heard about. Hubby asked me to get a copy of "Outfoxed" to give to a clueless GOP lawyer that's running for judge. Now, that's progress!

[leftofthedial]

37. best friend's wife

typical upper middle class apathetic "country club" repuke who doesn't realize at all what her party has become and is doing.

[Jessica]

38. My parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins ...

Safe to say, I'm the only non-repuke in my family. And actually, I am, what I like to call, a "recovering republican." I registered that way at 18 because of my family. Didn't take me long to figure out that wasn't who I really am. Luckily, I have succeeded in building a strong circle of good Democrat friends ... they and my boyfriend keep me sane. :)

[Not_Giving_Up]

39. In-laws and my mother's side are all repukes

My mom and stepdad are dems though.