Good job, nice new house, fit, 51, date frequently,
but...still single....
because???
Catholic, Pro-life, conservative, drug free, non-smoker...
My husband's sister and husband are raging libs. Politics will not be discussed tomorrow.
Standing up for what's right is not always easy or fun. You are to be commended for standing up for your beliefs. You were willing to continue the friendship, she was not. It is not intolerance on your part which caused the rift.
I lost a friend this summer. I was pretty sure she was a dimocrat, but we had a six year friendship that ended while she was vacationing here. She must have also known I was a conservative, within a couple of hours of picking her up at the airport, she started in with all the msm liberal talking points. I very politely asked her to not let this spoil our friendship, that we had been friends for six years without ever needing a political discussion. She became a typical, foaming at the mouth liberal. I drove her to the nearest motel, I actually kind of feared having her at my house, she was that nuts. Guess I'll stick to my own "kind" from now on...
I'll bet you never dreamed this thread would go to almost 300 replies? It could go to 1000 when the post-Thanksgiving horror stories start coming in.
The real question is, if Jeb runs in 2008 and wins, will certain heads begin to explode? ;-)
Just a quick checkin ...No one was stabbed or shot at the Thanksgiving party...I see this as a big step toward peace
bump for later perusal. I, too, have had a friend of many years go completely irrational over this election, but so far, I have refused to challenge her lunacy.
"Friends come and go but are ever gladly reacquainted; enemies are forever."
One thing has really bugged me though, especially since the 2000 election. Each year at Christmas, one of these sisters (and her husband) sends a standard form letter full of political horse manure. The other sister and her husband (a retired Navy officer) have nothing to prove politically, and use the Christmas cards to send their holiday cheers. I find it totally inappropriate for these retired college instructors to use their traditional holiday greetings as a means to spill their political guts. I thought that this was supposed to be a time of cheer and good will. They wasted two large paragraphs (in an otherwise short note), to demean President Bush, his policies and the war in Iraq. One of their lines in this year's letter is: "...and make judicial choices that do not favour right wing ideologues."
I'm finding it harder and harder to be nice. I'm almost tempted to send a card telling them how I feel and sign it: Your friendly-neighborhood right-wing ideologue.
These people are supposed to be educators, but perhaps that is part of the their problem. They actually believe that Iraq could be contained like the Soviet Union. There's nothing like living in la la land.
I'm probably moving to Florida next year sometime and will just forget to send them my new address. That way they'll never find me and I won't have to wade through their yearly political baloney to find their season's greetings.
I join you in your sadness. Right before the election, I went to NY for my yearly visit with a life long girlfriend and told her that I wanted to see Hitlary's new house. I had made a sign in took it along to take a photo of myself so my friends in CA would believe it. She didn't know what the sign said and we drove up there and when we got to the house there was a line of cars going slowly and I was embarrassed to get out and make a fool out of myself. I still didn't think anything. After returning home I called her to tell her I would send money if she would represent me at a Rick Fazio event and she said "absolutely not as she was a Hillary girl" and with that I went into total shock. Calmly I asked why and she said "because Hillary's for the children" and I kid you not those were her exact words. She's an educated stock broker. I have avoided seeing her ever since and last week she said it had been 5 years and why didn't I want to see her? We have spoken but nothing like before as I just don't think I can keep my mouth shut forever. By the way, after 911 she did call to say the "right person was in the White House and there would be lots more to come" and I thanked her for calling. Just blows my mind how some people just don't get it. Oh, the day of the election in 2000 she called to tell me she had just voted had I? Sure it was a dig so I just calmly said I had voted absentee and I had my elephant outfit on and was just leaving to drive around and get out the vote. No comment. Very sad.
Loss of a friend is dificult, but things do change.
You have made lots of FReeper friends. Perhaps that will in some way compensate.