A Little Advice, Please...

[MountainWoman]

Hey Freepers, One of my friends (who is a hardcore lib) wrote me an email this morning asking my husband and I to join her for the VP debate at her house. Her wording was that she wanted to watch Sarah "screw up." We have never discussed politics before, and I suppose she just assumed that we were liberals. Well, I am trying to devise a funny response by basically saying I'm "coming out of the closet" but I don't know what else to say. I think she is a nice woman, but I really want to set the record straight without being too serious. I would like to be somewhat sarcastic. Can you guys give me some ideas? I would appreciate it. Oh by the way, I know you guys have been getting pissed about people posting "Vanity" but I knew you guys would give the best advice. Thanks

[JennysCool]

MountainWoman
Since Sep 30, 2008

... sigh ...

[cdga5for4]

Accept there offer but don’t say anything. Then, when you are watching the debate, talk about how great Governor Palin is doing and how you REALLY like her. That will be much more fun.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Get in her face!!!!!!!!!!

It’s the Obama marching orders...

[OCCASparky]

Actually, I was thinking that every time Palin nails Biden, you jump off the couch and do one of those Tiger Woods “fist pump” deals.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

NPG: No possible gain.

[End Times Sentinel]

Oh by the way, I know you guys have been getting pissed about people posting "Vanity" but I knew you guys would give the best advice.

Yet you did it anyway. And signed up today, just for this?

I'm sure JimRob loves you wasting his bandwidth.

Owl_Eagle

There are people who are surrounded by bigots
and know it is wrong, but are afraid to be vocal against it.
These people are going to pull the lever for Obama
and they are not being polled.
angee_is_mad, DUmmy

[Mr. K]

Go and act all happy about how that mean Palin woman would NEVER allow the government to control us like the Dear Leader Obama would.

throw in how much you LOVE paying taxes, and how those poor welfare people deserve to stay home all day and watch TV and get paid for it.

See how long it takes to catch on.

[theDentist]

Go over; bring exlax brownies.
:-)
or don’t.

[cherry]

I wouldn’t go....

[tumblindice]

An oblique, tactful response might be to simply say,
“Sorry but we heard you had fleas in your carpet.”

[3AngelaD]

Sounds like it would be an uncomfortable evening, at best. Why not decline and say you have made other plans. (You have, stay home and watch it without her editorial comment.) Or, if you are feeling feisty, tell her you have to decline her kind invitation because you are going to be hunting moose with your shotgun.

[JohnJ]

Ask her what magazines or book to bring along so you can read along with whatever the source is that Joe (the Chia Pet Head) Biden has plagiarized for “his” words.

[Sibre Fan]

Hmm. That’s a tough one. Can you just say something short like ... “actually, I support the McCain/Palin ticket, and expect she’ll do just fine. Invitation still open?
:))

That’s short, to the point w/o being “militant” about it, and puts the onus back on her.

[Thane_Banquo]

Dear friend, Like Joe Biden, I have been watching Vice Presidential debates on TV since Teddy Roosevelt ran for VP in 1900. Joe and I see this as the most important Vice Presidential debate since LBJ ran on Harry Truman’s ticket in 1984. But I feel like I should stay at home with my family, because we’re voting for Rutherford B. Hayes.

[DirtyHarryY2K]

You log on today to post this?

I smell ozone!

[TFMcGuire]

Your vanity is as worthwile or more than all these multiple postings of Freepers who don’t check to see if something’s already up.

I’d feign ignorance and reply, “Me too; Joe Biden’s middle name is, Screw up.”

He even had to drop out of a presidential bid for plagiarism while he was in law school.

give her some other examples but pretend to be clueless. She’ll not be able to take offense.

[mlocher]

What do you wish to accomplish? Change her mind? Gloat? Lose her as a friend? If you wish to change her mind, be as gracious as possible while attending and discuss the issues with her. Stick to issues. If you want to gloat, just have fun! If you want to lose her as a friend, just have fun and make comments like, "Only knuckleheads would think Biden won the debate!" or "I pity the poor imbeciles who think Obama is intelligent!" or "One's intelligence is inversely proportional to the amount of their money they want the government to spend", or even "Palin must be good because she is so good looking, unlike most liberal women."

Good luck! Let us know how it goes.

[MDformerDem]

If this is a friend only, and not someone you have to work with, I'd go over there, pretending to also suffer from PDS, and then during the debate pretend to see her "in a new light" and openly question media bias.

[MountainWoman]

YES EVERYONE...I JOINED TODAY!! I GUESS I’M COMING OUT TO YOU TOO! geez...