Don’t hold your breath. My dad is a 95 year old WWII veteran and purple heart recipient. He voted for obama and thinks is the best thing to come along since sliced bread. He was alway a democrat but this takes it to a whole new level where I’ve lost much of the respect I held for him. We can’t even discuss politics
He is probably like my Brother in Law too proud to admit to a mistake he goes whole hog the other way and ignores anything that blooks like it might change his mind.
I’ll cut the old folks some slack. I have a 73 year old uncle who’s the same way. Some people are democrats from the old school and actually think the dem party today is the same as 50 years ago. They’re not paying attention. As a friend, a Viet Nam Vet Marine and life long democrat said to me not long ago, “The republican party never did anything for the working man.” This same guy hates Chavez. It’s hopeless with people like that.
Same with my parents. I think at that age all they are voting for is prescription drugs.
That’s sad! My Step-Dad is/was a Dem., but pretty much of a conservative one. He votes often for Repub.s, but will occasionally vote for a Dem. on a local level if they are mostly conservative! Otherwise, he’ll take the Republican. My Mom is a 83-yr.-old Repub., who mostly votes for Repub.s. Occasionally, like my step-Dad above, she’ll take a local Dem. who is mostly conservative.
Every once in awhile though, she’ll listen to a smooth-talker like Obama, and talk about voting for them, and I’ll shiver! However, she snapped out of that before the 2008 election, and it was McCain all the way! Thankfully, she realized he (B. Obama)wasn’t like Kennedy (who was at somewhat conservative still), she didn’t like him and didn’t vote for him after all.
She’s one of those people who think that at least some Dems. are like they used to be. She’s a smart lady who isn’t easily fooled. My Step-Dad isn’t either. If they don’t like something about a candidate (for example: if they’re too liberal), they won’t vote for them, no matter how charming they seem. And to be fair, they liked Obama at first, because then they didn’t think he was crooked like Hillary!
Also at first, they didn’t realize that Obama was as left-wing as he was. They thought he was a moderate. I can see why; he did at times act like a moderate! Besides, if they had their doubts about McCain, they both liked Sarah, so they voted for McCain/Palin! In fact, my Dad (see above)said that McCain should’ve let Sarah speak out in her own way, and it was a mistake to hold her back; He might’ve won!