Reply #87: One of my best friends is a Bush lover.

[jeanarrett]

I think it's for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is her SO is a Vietnam vet and believed the swiftboat shitheads. Her son served in Iraq and safely returned, but referred to those people he was taking freedom to as ragheads. So my friend really does not trust herself, I think, to think her own thoughts. She's buying into what those closest to her tell her to. We've had many fights about Bush/Kerry/Clinton/Iraq, etc., and what usually happens is that she has no response or is unable to form an honest answer to my question, "what is it about him that you like/admire/worship so much?" Usually, she just says she is entitled to her beliefs and I'm entitled to mine, which tells me absolutely nothing. Sometimes she gets pissed off at me and blocks my e-mails, but she always comes back around and we agree to disagree and move on to something else.

What is really weird is that she and I are so MUCH alike in every other aspect of our lives other than our politics. I love her--she has stood beside me through some pretty tough times and I absolutely refuse to let the asshole in the Whitehouse who has destroyed so much else around us, take away this friendship too. The bastard is just not worth it, so we agree to disagree, and someday 20 years from now, we'll probably laugh about it over our gin and tonics, but we'll still be friends.