Cali_Democrat
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Sat Jan-29-11 12:46 AM
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Thankfully.
Not a single conservative in my family.
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| -Your parents: Left or right? |
Mendocino |
Jan-28-11 10:15 PM |
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one right. one left. my dad, the right voted obama, first dem. neither are bigots. both good |
seabeyond |
Jan-28-11 10:18 PM |
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You would think that getting older would soften |
Mendocino |
Jan-28-11 10:41 PM |
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Are your parents on Social Security and Medicare? |
The Wielding Truth |
Jan-29-11 12:44 AM |
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Yes |
Mendocino |
Jan-29-11 12:51 AM |
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My dad,Eisenhower Repub..last action was voting for Obama. |
w8liftinglady |
Jan-28-11 11:12 PM |
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See my post #86.......nt |
Enthusiast |
Jan-29-11 07:19 AM |
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My mom is very liberal - my dad ended up that way |
NRaleighLiberal |
Jan-28-11 10:19 PM |
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My parents WERE Republicans...not any more. |
CaliforniaPeggy |
Jan-28-11 10:21 PM |
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My dad was a Roosevelt Democrat |
Blue_In_AK |
Jan-28-11 10:23 PM |
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Thank You. |
Mendocino |
Jan-28-11 10:56 PM |
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Mom - left. Mom's family - very left. Dad - center. Dad's family - very right. |
Initech |
Jan-28-11 10:23 PM |
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One of each. But my dad was a rational Republican |
EFerrari |
Jan-28-11 10:23 PM |
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me,too. Mine still had a sense of decency for the poor and the sick |
w8liftinglady |
Jan-28-11 11:14 PM |
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Both are Democrats |
melman |
Jan-28-11 10:23 PM |
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Both were Left! |
burrowowl |
Jan-28-11 10:24 PM |
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Well, we like YOU better! You overcame tough obstacles and odds! |
gateley |
Jan-28-11 10:25 PM |
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I think my dad is a prodigy of Ebenezer Scrooge. |
Mendocino |
Jan-28-11 11:05 PM |
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That sounds like mine! On my BIRTHDAY phone conversation with him today he |
Zoeisright |
Jan-28-11 11:21 PM |
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I'm sure he isn't the only on from that side that feels that way. And they can |
gateley |
Jan-29-11 12:09 AM |
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My parents were slightly to the left of the John Birch Society |
ladym55 |
Jan-28-11 10:26 PM |
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My father is a Socialist like me... |
FarLeftRage |
Jan-28-11 10:26 PM |
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Mine were correct. |
undeterred |
Jan-28-11 10:26 PM |
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WAAAAY Left, I'm happy to say. nt |
blondeatlast |
Jan-28-11 10:27 PM |
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Parents |
AsahinaKimi |
Jan-28-11 10:27 PM |
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Father Conservative & Mother Liberal/Green. Possibly why they divorced when I was 14 |
Turborama |
Jan-28-11 10:27 PM |
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True blue for both |
taught_me_patience |
Jan-28-11 10:28 PM |
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Dead. |
valerief |
Jan-28-11 10:28 PM |
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Left. But one of them voted for Reagan. |
proud2BlibKansan |
Jan-28-11 10:29 PM |
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my dad is far right (except on reproductive rights) -- my mom isn't easily defined that way |
fishwax |
Jan-28-11 10:31 PM |
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Let's See Here... |
catabryna |
Jan-28-11 10:32 PM |
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Left. |
applegrove |
Jan-28-11 10:34 PM |
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Both parents lifelong Democrats |
northoftheborder |
Jan-28-11 10:35 PM |
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I don't remember my parents being very political |
prole_for_peace |
Jan-28-11 10:38 PM |
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FDR Democrats nt |
madmax |
Jan-28-11 10:40 PM |
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They were never really right wing |
ohheckyeah |
Jan-28-11 10:42 PM |
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When I first saw All In The Family I thought they based |
doc03 |
Jan-28-11 10:44 PM |
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Right decades ago. Now, dem & independent (my assumption, based on voting and disdain for Fox). |
demmiblue |
Jan-28-11 10:45 PM |
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Kind of interesting. My Dad is a Roosevelt Democrat who has voted Democrat his entire life. |
madinmaryland |
Jan-28-11 10:48 PM |
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Mine never voted Republican. They were products of Roosevelt's |
mmonk |
Jan-28-11 10:48 PM |
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mom's a yellow dog, dad's a puke (in every way). i'm to the left of both of them. |
AlabamaLibrul |
Jan-28-11 10:48 PM |
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Left, mostly |
Karia |
Jan-28-11 10:49 PM |
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Liberal Republicans |
AndyTiedye |
Jan-28-11 10:53 PM |
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My mom died six years ago. She worshipped FDR and |
kas125 |
Jan-28-11 10:54 PM |
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Dad--far right. Mom--centrist, leaning left. |
vikegirl |
Jan-28-11 10:56 PM |
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I don't know. I never asked and they never told me. |
Kaleva |
Jan-28-11 10:58 PM |
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My mother (aged 85) told me last week |
frazzled |
Jan-28-11 10:58 PM |
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My mom was liberal, got crazy religious, went right, and now is left again. |
liberalmuse |
Jan-28-11 10:58 PM |
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My family is all Democrats, but... |
immoderate |
Jan-28-11 11:02 PM |
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My mother is an unreconstructed, proud, unashamed Kennedy liberal. |
Aristus |
Jan-28-11 11:06 PM |
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Dad was left....estranged mother is radical left. |
Lucky Luciano |
Jan-28-11 11:11 PM |
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They were pretty much center-left when I was a child. |
TygrBright |
Jan-28-11 11:16 PM |
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My dad leans right. |
laundry_queen |
Jan-28-11 11:16 PM |
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Both extreme right, unfortunately. |
Zoeisright |
Jan-28-11 11:19 PM |
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If I watched Beck and Billo today, |
Mendocino |
Jan-29-11 12:29 AM |
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Ordained Assemblies of God minister, was VERY far right. Now retired and has become |
Fuzz |
Jan-28-11 11:22 PM |
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Mine were Catholic, blue collar dems |
pinboy3niner |
Jan-28-11 11:23 PM |
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Kennedy Democrats! |
Still Sensible |
Jan-28-11 11:24 PM |
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Both left. |
Lugnut |
Jan-28-11 11:27 PM |
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Mom voted Rep. untill she saw the cops beating people in Chicago 1968. |
Mojeoux |
Jan-28-11 11:56 PM |
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they were neither, just apathetic. I convinced them both to vote Democratic last year, though. |
AmandaMae |
Jan-29-11 12:01 AM |
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Depressingly right. |
Mariana |
Jan-29-11 12:09 AM |
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That is why Colin Powell never ran |
barbiegeek |
Jan-29-11 09:43 AM |
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Very moderate. Conservative is some ways Progressive in other ways |
pamela |
Jan-29-11 12:11 AM |
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Parents are |
vercetti2021 |
Jan-29-11 12:19 AM |
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I have a couple of military brothers . . . . It is good to respect limitations on some relationships |
patrice |
Jan-29-11 01:16 AM |
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Ended up solidly LEFT |
Mopar151 |
Jan-29-11 12:19 AM |
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Mom comes from a politically liberal family and Dad was from an apolitical family. |
Drunken Irishman |
Jan-29-11 12:19 AM |
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Dad was a Democrat, mom was mostly apolitical. |
Marr |
Jan-29-11 12:24 AM |
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Whole family is left except for 2, both of whom aren't |
NYC Liberal |
Jan-29-11 12:32 AM |
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Father Social Democrat. Mother practically a Communist. n/t |
Catherina |
Jan-29-11 12:34 AM |
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mostly left-wing, but somewhat "traditional" |
Sen. Walter Sobchak |
Jan-29-11 12:43 AM |
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Rural families out of Arkansas & Oklahoma, Labor Populist Democrats, Left of Center on SocialJustice |
patrice |
Jan-29-11 12:43 AM |
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Left |
Cali_Democrat |
Jan-29-11 12:46 AM |
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Both parents were and are very democratic. |
silver10 |
Jan-29-11 12:50 AM |
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Both Left |
proud patriot |
Jan-29-11 12:59 AM |
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Wow! You must be really be something, to come through that adversity so well! |
patrice |
Jan-29-11 01:09 AM |
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My parents were solid republicans - now Mom says she has about as much use for one as a |
Maru Kitteh |
Jan-29-11 01:14 AM |
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Mom Democrat, Dad Independent... however on social issues, conservative because |
begin_within |
Jan-29-11 01:48 AM |
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roosevelt dems |
Hannah Bell |
Jan-29-11 01:50 AM |
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Libertarian in the truest sense of the word. |
distantearlywarning |
Jan-29-11 02:04 AM |
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As far as I know my parents have always been registered as Democrats |
csziggy |
Jan-29-11 02:07 AM |
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Both Democrats since becoming citizens. |
stevenleser |
Jan-29-11 02:22 AM |
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Mom is very left, Dad was GOP but came to hate Reagan |
Hamlette |
Jan-29-11 02:33 AM |
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Both parents are on the right. |
NuclearDem |
Jan-29-11 03:25 AM |
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Both Dems |
cali |
Jan-29-11 03:47 AM |
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My parents were moderate repubs but ended up as very liberal Democrats |
Raine |
Jan-29-11 03:57 AM |
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Always remember my dad didn't want Blacks to move into our neighborhood, because it would hurt |
pampango |
Jan-29-11 04:49 AM |
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Extreme right wing Evangelical... need I say more? |
NotThisTime |
Jan-29-11 06:20 AM |
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Left |
JustAnotherGen |
Jan-29-11 06:25 AM |
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Interesting thread, Mendocino. |
Enthusiast |
Jan-29-11 07:15 AM |
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My mother is a hard core socialist, my stepdad voted Democrat. |
hobbit709 |
Jan-29-11 07:21 AM |
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My parents were both avid right. |
diddlysquat |
Jan-29-11 08:54 AM |
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both left. |
lonestarnot |
Jan-29-11 08:57 AM |
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Dad's Socially liberal, Fiscally Moderate, and a little to the left of Lieberman on foreign policy |
MadBadger |
Jan-29-11 09:44 AM |
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Socialists |
LiberalEsto |
Jan-29-11 09:47 AM |
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Both very left |
LeftishBrit |
Jan-29-11 09:51 AM |
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Liberal - Very Liberal |
otohara |
Jan-29-11 10:06 AM |
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Center of center. About as centered as one can be. |
ScreamingMeemie |
Jan-29-11 10:07 AM |
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Orange County republicans |
IDemo |
Jan-29-11 10:07 AM |
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Moderate to Liberal |
fascisthunter |
Jan-29-11 10:10 AM |
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Moderate left. As in, ACTUAL moderate left. |
Commie Pinko Dirtbag |
Jan-29-11 10:12 AM |
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Both Democrats |
RockaFowler |
Jan-29-11 10:21 AM |
#100 |
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