Dating a Repub

[liberal72]

While I am not dating a Republican, does anyone think that you should not date someone because they are conservative. James Carville and Mary Matalin are married so it doesn't seem like a big deal, does anyone think differently.

[KCDem]

I couldn't be married to someone who had opposite views.

But I could "date" someone. :evilgrin:

[Gato Moteado]

7. i don't think hubby would like it....

...if you "dated" a winger.

[TXlib]

28. Hmmm, I'm pretty sure "hubby" wouldn't like it if she dated anybody.

:grr:

[Gato Moteado]

30. well that just goes without saying

nt

[CanuckAmok]

1. I couldn't do it. One of my first criteria for mates is that she be...

...a Leftie.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

17. My wife's basically a Red Tory, which is just about bearable.

But since Martin's performed so poorly and the CPC has become a clusterfuck, she's coming over to the NDP. How's that for a change?

[OhioStateProgressive]

2. my thoughts

finding love is damn hard, why limit it on political grounds?

[wysimdnwyg]

3. SHOULD not? Can't say that.

WOULD not? Yeah, probably. I can't see myself being attracted enough to someone on the rabid right to want to date them.

[salinen]

4. I will have no relations whatsoever

with a RWer, let along date or marry. I like Carville, but I can't understand his attraction to her.

[fudge stripe cookays]

34. Me either!

Politics never used to mean anything to me, and I might have dated a few without knowing, but now? If anything happened to reprehensor, I'd probably be meeting most of my dates through political activities. No matter how "attractive" a right-winger might be, they lose IQ points the minute I find out what persuasion they are.

Our relationship is so successful because we constantly talk about everything, from history to literature to music to current events-- we read voraciously, and a good deal of what we read is written by left-wing intelligentsia.

I couldn't have that winger.

[mac56]

5. To quote Dwight Yoakum:

"I ain't that lonely yet."

[Kamika]

6. Just make sure your kids are liberals

That way you effectively eliminated one repug :D

[southpaw]

8. Currently dating a "Republican"

I use the quotes because, from what I can tell, she is not so much a right-winger as a moral conservative. I think I can show her how the left is actually more in line with her values than a bunch of sexist egotistical lying hypocritical bigots.

[fudge stripe cookays]

32. Another 9 to 5 fan, eh?

I use this term all the time, and people look at me like I've got 3 heads.

I love that scene!

[Love Bug]

9. YMMV, but I couldn't do it

I've said it before-- why would I want to share my "cookies" with someone who won't defend the "bakery"?

I truly can't see myself with a man who is a right-winger, no matter how good-looking he is. That's a deal-breaker for me.

[AZCat]

10. I tried- didn't work

She was really nice, we meshed on a lot of things. But I just couldn't talk to her about that- and it would have become difficult on down the line.
We broke it off amiably and still talk.

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[TreasonousBastard]

12. Depends...

just how Republican?

what kind of Republican?

Wild-eyed wingnuts of any stripe tend to turn me off, but I've been out with a fair number of women, some identified as Republican, who had far more important qualities to make their mildly conservative political orientations entirely irrelevant.

Politics isn't all that important in a relationship unless at least one of you wants to make it so.

[Anaxamander]

13. To each his/her own, but...

I couldn't and wouldn't do it. It might be okay if neither of you are particularly active in politics, but otherwise I just don't know how you could sleep at night knowing your SO would vote for *.

All the girls I've dated have been liberals, thank gawd. I wouldn't touch Mary Matalin even if she looked like Beyonce. I don't know how Carville does it...

[La Lioness Priyanka]

14. when i was younger i did once

and felt awful..we broke up in a couple of weeks...still makes me feel yucky!

[Arugula Latte]

15. Depends

If you are young and see this as a fling or a few-months, what-the-hell kind of relationship, well, I guess.

However, if you are in a serious relationship, I would think long and hard before, say, getting engaged. Life is hard enough, and to go through it with someone who doesn't share your values would only make it harder, in my opinion. Me, I'd rather be alone. Luckily, my spouse and are both proud liberals. Our kids despise AWOL. I can't imagine them ever voting Repub!

[OhioStateProgressive]

18. I disagree somewhat

Of course everyone wants to find someone they "agree" with. But I would maintain that the goal in life isn't to gain agreement, but to give and share love. If that love is found outside your sphere of beliefs, than that is where it will exist. Life is hard enough and lonely enough without limiting who you would love and why, imo.

[skypilot]

16. Once dated an older guy...

...who'd just come out of the closet. Was shocked to find out that he was Republican. He also got some creepy looking mail from religious groups. Admirer of Ronald Reagan. A real stiff in bed. That was ten years ago, maybe he's crossed over from the dark side by now.

[Jade Fox]

19. Tried it....

Didn't work. Politics is just too important to me.

[BigMcLargehuge]

20. I dunno, the differences in outlook with certainly make for some good

coversation over dinner. I am atheist and married a Methodist, I lean left towards socialist she is significantly less left leaning.

Been 8.5 years and so far we've weathered the storms together without our differences making things awful. In fact, I think in some ways they've helped us stick together.

[MrScorpio]

21. MrsScorpio is an avid FauxNews watcher

But she doesn't care about politics

She leaves that up to me.

No problem here

[VOX]

22. It's possible, if he/she is a McCain-type Republican, but...

if he/she tows the GOP party line, and defends * and the neocon way, etc., I just don't see how it'd be possible. I take my politics way too passionately.

I'd be too angry too often if my wife/steady/partner/date were a freeper.

[Djinn]

25. doubt it

technically my partner voted for "the other side" when we got together(in Australia the Liberal party ironically) in that he has never voted for the ALP (Aust Labor Party) but for him it was more of a family background thing, his family is in building and the building unions have p'raps gone overboard at times, he has however stopped voting conservative as he's realised that when they talk about "being for small business" the small business they mean is IBM, BHP etc not small to medium family owned ones like they have, he's also progressive on "social" issues so has moved away from the party that demonised dead refugees.

He now votes Green - had he been a died in the wool conservative I never would have found him attractive.

[DebJ]

23. I wouldn't even want to DATE someone whose views are so far off from

my own. Yuck!

[Weiners]

24. Some might say that I'm to picky but ....

....my Mate would have to be a left-wing Atheist.
I couldn't, wouldn't get involved with anyone else.

[PVnRT]

26. It's another personality trait

If it's something you think would interfere in a relationship, don't date one. If you don't think that it would be that hard to overcome, go for it.

[Lisa0825]

27. Ex-hubb was a moderate republican... only dems from now on!

He wasn't so bad.... purely Rep on fiscal reasons, and Clinton cured him of that theory. He voted for Clinton's second term, and also for Ann Richards for governor. we didn't argue about much. He was for gay rights, pro-choice, etc... really not much of a Republican when I think about it!LOL!

Anyway, I have never been deeply involved in politics before, so it never mattered to me. Now, it is an important part of my life, and I HAVE TO be able to share it. And I don't think I could tolerate much disagreement on my basic issues. So, to make things easy, I'd rather just start out by only dating people I can agree with idealogically. Then, I won't have to break their hearts down the road;-)

[Goldberg]

29. I would never date or marry a republican.

I hate views from the opposite sex that are much different than mine. I would die at an early age if I were to ever marry one.

[regnaD kciN]

31. The only "dating" one should do with Republicans...

...involves carbon -- to more-precisely place their paleolithic views!

[Loonman]

33. I've done it before

Not that big of a deal.

[ArkDem]

35. I believe the saying goes....

opposites attract