My grandfather was typical of the older mindset. He seemed like a model conservative: never took a dollar that he didn't earn, loved guns and hunting and had a string of proftable small businesses. But he was an old union man that would still get weepy-eyed if someone on TV mentioned JFK and he HATED Republicans. He blamed them for everything that in his opinion had ever gone wrong in America: union-busting, war profiteering, desegregation, women's lib and (Russian) bear-baiting. He still called Stalin "Uncle Joe" and thought that Reagan was crazy. He lived long enough to vote for Clinton in '92. I took him some materials from a Young Democrat club extolling Clinton's position on gun control, race and whatnot...he tore them up and threw them away. He just wouldn't believe any of it. He died thinking that Clinton was the second coming of JFK. I can't imagine what he'd think of Obama. But I bet he'd have found some way to justify voting for him.
“He lived long enough to vote for Clinton in ‘92. “
I see his mental capacities were diminishing prior to his passing.... Sorry.. Couldn’t resist!