I have elderly in-laws that I love dearly, but they are what they calls democrats with blind-folders on!!
When I met my wonderful wife 24 years ago she had the same ideas. After she was sneak-listening in when I tuned in to Rush Limbaugh, she finally saw the "light" after voting for clinton the first time around. Our question to our friends is:"How can you be a real Christian and be a democrat at the same time? How do you reconcile these two??"
I think, however, this Foley garbage will turn out GOP voters in droves!!!
There are so many "yellow dog Democrats" left over from the Roosevelt era, parents who passed it on to their kids. Those Roosevelt coat tails are about worn out, and this modern crop of Democrats are full blown, full grown Socialists. - My parents had the old ideas about the Democrat Party being "more for the little man", but they weren't ones who disdained hard work and just couldn't see where the Democrat Party was taking this country. The only time Daddy strayed from the DP was when Ronald Reagan ran for President. He liked Reagan, but then when Clinton ran, he liked Clinton. Daddy was hard of hearing, his reading skills were limited as were my mother's, and they trusted the media of "David & Chet", they were from the Depression / Roosevelt era, and were just indoctrinated into the Democrat propaganda. It's a wonder that I escaped; but I learned fairly quickly after I voted the first time ever - for Jimmuh Carter - and paid pretty close attention to the malaise that followed, a malaise that was his and his party's that he tried to pawn off on us as our fault in his famous fireside sweater talks. Reagan told me I wasn't a worthless malaise filled wastrel, and I appreciated it.