My mother: voted for Ford, Regan, Regan, Bush, Bush, Dole, Bush and Bush......

[Political Heretic]

....in 2008 she is voting for Obama.

She finds him to be absolutely inspiring and has been going through a crisis of conscience about her conservatism. She says as she listens to Obama, she feels hope and sees how so many of the things she had been ingrained to believe have been so wrong.

As you can see by my icon, I am a John Edwards supporter. But, I don't care who you are supporting, stories like this are happening EVERYWHERE and they are reasons for HOPE. CHANGE IS TRULY IN THE AIR THIS YEAR.

[dkofos]

1. So she will still be part of the problem

[Political Heretic]

10. What the fuck does that mean?

[Bluebear]

14. Well what Hope and Change is she specifically looking forward to?

[bobbolink]

18. Specifics, Schmacifics. Just chanting "Hope and Change" gives her the needed warm fuzzies.

:hi:

[Cant trust em]

20. don't talk about someone's mother

That's not cool.

[Avalux]

21. Your post is quite rude, and pointless. n/t

[alcibiades_mystery]

2. Your mother voted for Don Regan?

He wasn't even on the ballot!

[TahitiNut]

4. Judith Regan ... a write-in

:silly:

[Bucky]

9. I assumed the OP meant Regan MacNeil from "The Exorcist"

She sure looks Republican in this shot

[robertpaulsen]

24. Obviously it was a spelling error. Just for clarification, here's the correct spelling:

RAY-GUN!

[fenriswolf]

3. just in time for DRE to change their votes back to conservative candidates

[spanone]

5. you STILL got to love your mama.....hard as it may be

[TahitiNut]

6. WRONG FORUM

:eyes:

[Tarc]

7. pre-senile dementia?

Happens to the best of the Greatest Generation

[Raine]

17. Geeesh

:eyes:

[cali]

23. fucking disgusting

oh, it's you. What else could it be. Go cheney yourself, pookie.

[slick8790]

29. Wow, you're a fucking asshole.

Go kill yourself.

[goodgd_yall]

36. Oops

Didn't you learn not to insult one's mom to their face---or to their screen?

:spank:

[Tarc]

40. Anyone who puts Republicans into office

is fair game as far as I am concerned. Everybody is someone's mother/father/son/daughter/sisther/brother, and they aren't off-limits for criticism.

[argyl]

39. Her first vote was for Ford,moron. That makes her a Boomer. Maybe you're the senile one.

[Political Heretic]

43. Wow, you're an amazing asshole.

Yep, my response is deserved when you take a post about someone's mother finally beginning to see the light and insult her.

[featherman]

8. Nice story...thanks

[babylonsister]

11. I think that's fabulous; your mom has great taste! nt

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

12. Thank you, George Bush

For making so many new Democrats :D

[Meshuga]

32. No kidding

And a Obama is a great choice for a first democratic vote. :-)

[AwakeAtLast]

42. EXACTLY - That will be his legacy.

I think it's a pretty good one, too! :D

:hi:

[wuushew]

13. and to think, it only took thirty years....

:P

[Raine]

15. Glad your mother came

over from the darkside. I don't see why there are so many derogatory posts in this thread. :wtf: It seems like anytime someone leaves the reTHUG fold it's a good thing. :think:

[Prefer]

16. Welcome to DU

[Flabbergasted]

19. There is a lot of that going around. And despite who they switch too, IT"S GOOD.

[Cant trust em]

22. She's not the only one

People underestimate charisma. It takes something big to make people look inside and find something different than they knew. Obama has it.

[Catherine Vincent]

25. Why did your mom vote for those republicans all those years?

Does she see Barack Hussein Obama as republican-lite? I'm just asking.

[Political Heretic]

44. She was part of the fundamentalist-chrisitan influence... (more)

interestingly enough, it wasn't moving away from religious faith that changed her, but actually making that faith more personal and more serious that changed her. The more she kept focusing on the words of Jesus, and then looking around at her own peers and church, the more she started to see the hypocrisy.

...and she had a son, frankly who kept pointing out the hypocrisy of the conservative agenda and how incompatible it is with principles of love, compassion, mercy, etc. I argued with her for probably five years, and during that time, slowly, slowly, slowly she began to see just how much she had been brainwashed by evangelical conservatives.

She realized the only reason she had ever been republican in the first place was basically because she was pro-life. She realized that the "authorities" in her old church structure told everyone that voting republican was christian and anything else was not, but they never explained why. My mother began questioning lots of stuff about that old way....

...she left that church, denomination, everything. Over time, she's found a non-denominational church that is focused on community action - it works to ease poverty in her city, works with the homeless, etc. Over the last three years or so, my mom has become quite a liberal.... poverty, and economic justice have become big things to her, and she can talk pretty eloquently (if I do say so myself) about how she was sucked in for so long by a conservative religious dogama that doesn't even make sense but she was trained not to question.

She likes John Edwards the best. But as it starts to become more clear to her that Edwards won't be president, she's found Obama to be incredibly inspiring. My mother is 56. She's voted before Ford, I just didn't have room to list them all. She says that Obama reminds her of Bobby Kennedy, and of course she was around when Kennedy was alive. I think she feels that same sort of inspiration. She definately does not see Obama as republican-lite. That's not me talking there, I'm telling you what she would say.

[Tatiana]

26. My grandmother has really warmed to Obama, but I think she's going with Hillary.

Really nice story :)

[Rowdyboy]

27. Thanks for the story......II see signs frequently that something is going on....

Guess we'll see

[ToeBot]

28. And with that kind of a track record.... nt

[City Lights]

30. Thanks for sharing your story, Political Heretic.

:hi:

I'm disgusted, but not at all surprised by the rude responses you've received.

[MadBadger]

31. OBAMA Republicans in the Obama Coalition.

I hope we hear about them for a long time.

[Meshuga]

33. Good for her!

:-)

[Adelante]

34. Good news

Thanks so much for sharing your mom's story :)

[goodgd_yall]

35. I had a feeling the OP was about Mom voting for Obama

Who else among the Democrats would she vote for with a Republican voting record like that. I'm happy for her that she feels good when she listens to Obama.

[Political Heretic]

45. Her FIRST choice, is John Edwards. So there goes that theory.

[Mme. Defarge]

37. Never too late

for redemption.

[southern_dem]

38. Good for her

and please ignore the negative posts. I'm also an Edwards support, but if Obama wins the nomination and pulls in Republican voters who are tired of the BS in their party then it's a great thing. :toast:

[cooolandrew]

41. I keep saying more Republicans are liking Barack and not for his policy..

...Hillary won't get that same kind of support if he has this much support on the rigfht how could the media attack him.

[Political Heretic]

46. She's not a Republican anymore. She changed to Democrat in 2005.

[rucky]

47. We should really be proud of our candidates.

and thank the GOP for finally waking up their zombie minions who've been voting against their own best interests all these years (your mom not included).

I'm hearing stuff like this myself, on several occasions. Mostly Obama, too. Woo-HOO!