[Timber Rattler]

My retired coal-miner dad, who's a Roosevelt-style New Deal Democrat. He voted for Obama in 2008 and again in 2012 because he thought that President Zero actually cared about the "little man" and would protect his Medicare and Social Security (the only issues the old man actually cares about). We engaged in some loud and ugly arguments until I decided that we couldn't talk about politics any more without hurting the family.

Now, with all the revelations about how Obama and the Rats are sacking Medicare to pay for Obamacare, as well as all the other scandals and the war on coal, my dear old dad has grown to despise the dictator he helped elect.

[driftless2]

"Dad"

Sounds like my Dad who died last year. He and my mother grew up under FDR, and I often reminded them the way they'd go on about the rich, they must think he, FDR, was still the president.

But shortly before he died my dad said he no longer considered himself a Democrat. Now, he said, he was an independent. That shocked the heck out of me. He didn't say why, but I think a lot of very old Catholics, like my parents, eventually became disenchanted with the abortion-loving Dems.