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Losing friends over Palin (Have you ever lost friends over politics ?)

Posted on 05/31/2010 9:46:47 PM PDT by se_ohio_young_conservative

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To: Halgr

“I pushed the issue....so I am guilty”

At least you were accurate.


21 posted on 05/31/2010 10:02:43 PM PDT by devere
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To: se_ohio_young_conservative

Life is too short and the politics of the day too, too important to waste time with those that will NOT see.

I had a friend that was liberal...I have a sister that I have found out is a socialist. (she won’t admit it——she’s been “Harvardized”).

When bills, employment and the state of the country is so depressed, the LAST thing I need is a debate on the obvious-—this “man-child” HATES America and hates me. I’ve better things to do with my time than spend it debating with those that are stupid and blind.


22 posted on 05/31/2010 10:03:36 PM PDT by Mortrey (Impeach President Soros)
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To: Melas

That is a very unemotional, flavorless, colorless, insipid, boring and bland way to see things.

The President is a personal issue. Even if he/she doesn’t know. Decisions they make will effect my family for decades to come.


23 posted on 05/31/2010 10:05:22 PM PDT by se_ohio_young_conservative ("I would rather be hated and be a pain in their side than hated and act classy".. me)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

INDEED.

Usually, by the time folks realize that us . . . folks who tend to see much further ahead than the average bear . . .

were right . . .

it is exceedingly too late to do much meaningful about it.

“OOOOPS, SORRY. I GUESS YOU WERE RIGHT”

Just does NOT cut it.

I’m happy to forgive and go on. That’s not the issue.

The issue is I hate to see them suffer needlessly.

Of course, some don’t even have the courage, maturity or humility to say they goofed and are sorry for being so stupid.

Which usually means they’ll be stupid and clueless and suffer accordingly many more times . . . before they wake up—if that’s even possible.


24 posted on 05/31/2010 10:05:28 PM PDT by Quix (THE PLAN of the Bosses: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2519352/posts?page=2#2)
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To: JoSixChip
Hell, I’ve parted ways with immediate family over politics. Same thing happened in the Civil War.

The same thing has happened to me.

25 posted on 05/31/2010 10:05:48 PM PDT by Professional Engineer (Conservative States of America has a nice ring to it.)
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To: se_ohio_young_conservative

People hate Sarah Palin because she is Christian and prolife. Did your former friends know that you were Christian and prolife or did you conceal that?


26 posted on 05/31/2010 10:08:28 PM PDT by iowamark
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To: se_ohio_young_conservative

The few liberals I know were mistreated as children, and hypocrisy and projection are ingrained defense mechanisms for them. They’re prone to extremely self-centric behavior. It’s easy to let government become your God when “Me” and “Now” are the most important things to you.

What is known as “situational ethics” or moral relativism” is the only way they can cope. They cannot deny they liked Bush’s tax rebate or Reagan’s military pay increase, but they still put those presidents down.

Their liberal ideology always trumps absolute truth for them when it suits them. All I can do is pray sometimes.


27 posted on 05/31/2010 10:10:19 PM PDT by MikeSteelBe
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To: se_ohio_young_conservative

I’ve had that come up before myself. I’m willing to accept them spouting off about Sarah Palin when they show me some evidence of her doing or saying something that can top “57 states,” “my Muslim faith,” or “stand up, Charlie!” Hasn’t happened yet.


28 posted on 05/31/2010 10:10:56 PM PDT by nysuperdoodle
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To: se_ohio_young_conservative
Losing friends over Palin (Have you ever lost friends over politics ?)

No but they've lost me.

29 posted on 05/31/2010 10:13:00 PM PDT by Outlaw Woman (Blessed Is The Nation Whose God is the Lord. Psalm 33:12)
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To: iowamark

no.

People hate palin because so many people like her. If she was a nobody, no one would care if you supported her or not.


30 posted on 05/31/2010 10:13:01 PM PDT by mamelukesabre (Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
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To: se_ohio_young_conservative

Anyone who threatens to take power from libs is either stupid or evil. Both Bushs, Reagan,Clarence Thomas, Dan Quayle, - all stupid. Nixon, Cheney, - all evil. Only libs are smart - like BHO. You will find that what libs find “stupid” in these people applies equally to you. My wife and I have reached that realization, and we both have doctoral degrees.

Ask you “friends” if there are ANY smart, honest conservatives who are currently in politics. Are there any they admire or respect? If they can think of anyone, it’s someone who poses no threat. The obsession they have with Palin is just a show of fear.

It make these people very hard to be around, to say the least.


31 posted on 05/31/2010 10:13:29 PM PDT by uscabjd
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To: se_ohio_young_conservative

they always come back if they are your true friends. They won’t come back as close as they were before the split, but they will come back.


32 posted on 05/31/2010 10:13:47 PM PDT by mamelukesabre (Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
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To: matt1234

Lucky for me my life long friends are all conservative or apolitical. And for me I don’t run into too many libs at the gun shop where I spend some of my free time.


33 posted on 05/31/2010 10:14:11 PM PDT by LukeL (Yasser Arafat: "I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize")
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To: se_ohio_young_conservative
Now I find myself seeing people through a totally different lens.

Welcome to my world. It helps to have low expectations.

One friend hasn't responded to my emails in months, after I responded to his implied call for more gun control and state-run ("free") mental health care in the wake of the Fort Hood shooting. Might be an ex-friend by now. I guess I'll find out when I call him this coming weekend.

34 posted on 05/31/2010 10:15:32 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (70 mph shouldn't be a speed limit; it shoud be a mandate!)
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To: se_ohio_young_conservative
(Have you ever lost friends over politics ?)

I wouldn't say I lost them as they are still there. But there are some who I refuse to have any more to do with. These so-called 'conservative' friends could not bear to hear me say anything bad about the liberal George W. Bush. They are the George W. Bush fan club, something I wanted no part of.

35 posted on 05/31/2010 10:15:32 PM PDT by South40 ("Islam has a long tradition of tolerance." ~Hussein Obama, June 4, 2009, Cairo, Egypt)
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To: se_ohio_young_conservative

No, that is a realistic and accurate description of reality in america.

Learn it or suffer.


36 posted on 05/31/2010 10:17:05 PM PDT by mamelukesabre (Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
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To: se_ohio_young_conservative

They weren’t friends, they were mindless idiots.
I recommend not associating with mindless idiots.
You’re far better off.
Congratulations! There’s still plenty of normal humans to befriend!


37 posted on 05/31/2010 10:17:50 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: whatisthetruth

Because anyone who hates on her as much as some of the liberals do is not worth being a friend with.


38 posted on 05/31/2010 10:18:18 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad (Impeach Sen Quinn)
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To: uscabjd

Uh, hate to break it to ya boy, but nixon and both bushes were not conservatives. You been suckered. sucker.


39 posted on 05/31/2010 10:18:31 PM PDT by mamelukesabre (Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
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To: nysuperdoodle
My SIL likes to play this trick at work--She goes into work and tells her Obama loving coworkers, "Did you hear that stupid thing that Sarah Palin said?" Then she recites the stupid thing. She then says, "Oh wait a minute! Nevermind, that was Barack Obama!"

I think after doing the trick a few times, they are not falling for it now.

40 posted on 05/31/2010 10:18:35 PM PDT by beaversmom
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