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I Have Lost a Friend Over the Election

Posted on 10/29/2008 2:12:34 PM PDT by libertarian9

I have been an Independent for most of my life but this year I registered as a Republican.

A have a friend who I've known for 22 years. He is an Obama supporter.

He has ended our friendship because I am supporting McCain and not Obama.

He has gone so far as to say that I'm not the person he thought I was all these years. I am angry and sad and a little stunned.

Anyone else having similar experiences over the election?


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To: libertarian9

> Anyone else having similar experiences over the election?

That happened to me a lot back in ‘92 with Clinton. I have managed to avoid it since, though I have beloved friends and family who are voting 0.


321 posted on 10/29/2008 6:43:46 PM PDT by XEHRpa
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To: libertarian9
Do not be upset.

Fortunately I do not have any friends or beloved ones who are voting for Obama. However I reduce my relationship with any person I know who voted for Obama and keep the relationship with the strict boundaries of work, business, and basic courtesy. I do not need to have any close relationship with any person who voted for a socialist, a defeatist, a left wing liberal, and a racist who sat for 20 years in the church of hateful anti-American racist.

322 posted on 10/29/2008 6:50:00 PM PDT by jveritas
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To: XEHRpa

I have a former DIL (thank goodness she is ‘former!!’) who was a Dem thru and thru. (My son asked us NOT to talk politics.) This was when Clinton was running for the second time.

One day I asked her WHY she was going to vote for Clinton. I asked her to think long and hard and to consider all the baggage he carried. I also said I would not argue with her -— I simply wanted to know why she would vote for such a person. She thought for a while and then simply answered -— “Because he’s a Democrat.”

KoolAid drinker!


323 posted on 10/29/2008 6:53:08 PM PDT by Exit148 (Founder of the Loose Change Club. Every nickle and dime counts!!)
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To: libertarian9
Consider this to be your baptism by fire. Many noobs get the same kind of welcome that you did.

I have yet to start a thread & I've been here for years. By starting a thread, you were kind of asking for it, specially since most of us are past tired of vanity (election) season. lol

Don't know what to tell you about your friend. Almost everyone that I know is an Obot & they're all hopeful that they can get me to change my mind, yet at the same time know better.

324 posted on 10/29/2008 6:56:06 PM PDT by GoLightly
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To: Exit148

Your story is my story. I since married a fine conservative woman.


325 posted on 10/29/2008 7:02:06 PM PDT by XEHRpa
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To: Two Kids' Dad

Oh, I’m sure he counts on us not doing that. He’s in debt, but I hope we live for a long time anyway. I want to see his reaction IF the pretender Obamassiah wins this election. - One thing for sure, we will not be working as hard as we have in the past just to make money for Obama’s bunch to confiscate. I’m sure a lot of people feel that way, too. I also do not intend to bankroll abortions in the guise of “universal healthcare”.


326 posted on 10/29/2008 7:13:48 PM PDT by Twinkie (PRESERVE THE CONSTITUTION !!!)
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To: libertarian9
Believe me, I feel for you. My entire Californication family has pretty much thrown me under the bus. They are voting for Obama because they think he'll give them "free health care." I know they'll never get it, or once they do, they won't want it. The irony is that the billions Obama is spending on his campaign would buy every person in the nation a good health care and retirement plan without government help.

Your friend will come around one day...the day he finds out Obama has made a complete and utter fool out of him. Meanwhile, pray for him and forgive him as best you can.

A prophet is never honored in his own country (or among his family and friends).

327 posted on 10/29/2008 7:27:44 PM PDT by pray4liberty (Watch, pray, and work. This election will separate the sheep from the goats.)
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To: imfrmdixie

Your my girl Blue! (lets see a picture)


328 posted on 10/29/2008 7:51:34 PM PDT by normy (Don't take it personally, just take it seriously.)
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To: libertarian9

You need to respond then. There is way too many posts without response from you.


329 posted on 10/29/2008 7:52:39 PM PDT by normy (Don't take it personally, just take it seriously.)
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To: libertarian9
No. I have some people that I know that are voting for Obama but I tend not to talk politics with them.
330 posted on 10/29/2008 7:56:31 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Just say No to Lawyers! Palin '08! (oh and McWhatshisname too. I guess))
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To: bmwcyle
I really can’t be around an Obama supporter without wanting to debate them all the time

good for you - I mostly want to kick & hit them....talk seems useless .

331 posted on 10/29/2008 8:14:18 PM PDT by DollyCali (Don't tell GOD how big your storm is -- Tell the storm how B-I-G your God is!)
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To: libertarian9

Sure have. Lost a life long friend after she took me to have my photo taken at Hillary and Bill’s new house in Chapiqua...I was visiting from CA...we’re from AL. Never in a million years would I have thought she would support Hillary but at dinner I asked her to go to a Lazio event and I would give her some money...the answer was a total shocker ~ “No, I’m a Hillary Girl!” Even worse, hysterical inside, I calmly asked what she had done to deserve being a Senator and the answer from a Stock Broker career woman was “SHE’S FOR THE CHILDREN.” I would not kid you. Use to speak weekly...now not even once a year...cannot stand stupidity. Sad but that’s life...we haven’t nothing in common any more so why have a stressed relationship? Sorry for you and it’s been hard...


332 posted on 10/29/2008 8:21:47 PM PDT by TatieBug
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To: americanophile

Welcome to the Civil Cold War. You made a stand. That’s what Patriots do.


333 posted on 10/29/2008 8:33:16 PM PDT by FTL
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To: Son-Joshua
Your friendship was a conditional relationship. I live in a very liberal area, and I find that they are only open minded when you agree with them. If you don't they become distant.

This summed it up nicely. Good perspective.
334 posted on 10/29/2008 8:36:14 PM PDT by FTL
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To: libertarian9

Your friend’s an asshole. Cheers.


335 posted on 10/29/2008 8:42:48 PM PDT by oldvike
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To: calex59

It’s real, I assure you.


336 posted on 10/29/2008 8:54:20 PM PDT by libertarian9
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To: libertarian9; All
I read many of the posts here, and see that we all share some loss of friendships due to politics. As conservatives, we have compromised away many issues, and are now left with only core values. Still, the liberals want to take it all with no compromise.

The general tone reminds me of a work incident years ago. I was lamenting poor treatment at the hands of management after our team did a wonderful job pulling their fat out of the fire once again. I said something to the affect, "We are great at our jobs, why don't THEY treat us like we are the good guys?". One of the team members laughed, shook his head, and then said, "Mark, Mark, Mark! Won't you ever learn? Those are the same THEY that killed Jesus."

I'll never forget that.

337 posted on 10/29/2008 9:03:41 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: dalereed

dalereed, sometimes you used to make me cringe at your strident, unyielding responses.
Now, after 5 1/2 years on FR, I see you as a rock and appreciate you very, very much. I remember you and your adorable wife at the RWR library/ bbq event.

Thank God I was smart enough to marry a conservative. He’s a rock, too.

This election has turned me off to many, many folks, some of them family, whom I no longer respect. Life’s too short to entertain liberals.


338 posted on 10/29/2008 9:07:42 PM PDT by b9 ("Maybe you should revisit your assumption..." ~ Sarah Palin)
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To: All

They do this same kind of thing over on Kos only on a far more frequent basis. Handwringing and public emoting over political breakups. Still, there is solidarity when folk can see your compatriots have similar experiences. People need to vent, and venting they are here. The best benefit is to see how utterly stupid these liberals are across the spectrum, intolerant and the whole nine yards. It reinforces what we already know.

Just remember what we are up against - and steel your minds.

The hard core cadre on the Left, these Leftist university intellectuals led by the likes of Ward Churchill and Bill Ayers and thousands of similar Communist “professors”, think nothing of arrogantly planning for the elimination of 25 million fellow citizens who don’t agree with them. Its nothing more than the old Soviet model. The Soviet regime used the same exact Marxist principals that define the Left Wing of the Democrat party eliminated approximately 62,000,000 people who didn’t agree with them between 1917 - 1987.

They want to rebuild the old Soviet Empire for the same old goal - domination of the planet by Communism. That was their goal then - and it hasn’t changed. Now they’re just pissed with the setback Reagan gave them.

When things get that bad and those are the kind of people you could face - there is no compromise, no middle ground. It pretty much comes down to a simple you or them element.

Some may seek you out to gloat should Obama win. Do you really feel the need to put up with it and give them any victory?

And should McCain win, they spend another 8 years of lying, spinning, blaming, undermining, treason, whining and the whole nine yards.

Should the Marxist win we’ll start dogging the crap out of him from day one.

We’ll stay as divided as ever. Leaders from both sides will bray and plead for us to unite. Ain’t gonna happen and we all know it. If Obama wins he’ll try to reach out. Same thing with McCain. You cannot unite a nation with two diametrically opposed ideologies. Not now, not with this Marxist and his gang.

Just don’t forget, they have been doing everything they can to defeat the troops and war effort - for purely political reasons. There is no uniting with people like that. Only an eventual once and for all fight.

Remember the “Human Shields”? Remember them doing everything they could to get more of our troops killed and put in harms way and encourage the enemy?

Never forget these traitorous bastards.

I don’t unite with anyone that considers the constitution “fundamentally flawed”. I consider anyone who would profess that a traitor and enemy. Chavez and every other dictator around the globe all say the same thing.

Best just cut ‘em off and start girding our own networks and defenses.

Steel your minds. Steel your skills. Everyone can serve in some capacity.


339 posted on 10/29/2008 9:47:41 PM PDT by FTL
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To: libertarian9

i don’t have any lfetist pals really

a few I do business with or know in passing....that’s it

my immediate family all somewhat right....even my oldest sorta kumbaya daughter has eschewed Obama

99% of my extended family

most of my business associates

all my employees but one (northerner)

most of my neighbors are lib but I don’t hang with them

I’m 50 and a southerner in the South, I don’t have to deal with lefties if i don’t choose to


340 posted on 10/29/2008 9:57:01 PM PDT by wardaddy (Lee Atwater where are you when we need you? many kids here don't remember you alas)
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