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for in public.
Thankfully, don't really have any republican family members, though I have a couple dumb flag-waving jingoistic types who've bought into the fake patriotism meme, but who are otherwise more than likely to vote democrat, or at least for someone qualified.
I do have one cousin, the youngest in the family, who at Christmas in 2001 said - in front of me, and after some of other of us and even him had been trashing Shrub - "Well, at least Gore isn't president" and meant it seriously. Oooh, man, I gave him SUCH a look. Mostly out of surprise, he's not that dumb really. And I didn't say anything because I was still angry about losing my office and my sense of security and rightness with the world because of that evil SOB, and I was afraid that if I started, I'd have the whole house's worth of people's ears on fire with invective. :-)
Last Christmas, I was much more free to disabuse any of those notions he was still carrying, and in a much more calm manner.
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