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She insisted that the NYT was lying about Sarah's diverse college experience. I said-- CNN interviewed her mother and she was talking about her issues going away to school and adjusting to different places...
"You sound like a liberal!" "What happened to you?"
I said that when the evidence is incontrovertible that some opinions are proven false, it is only logical to change those opinions.
Then she told me she reads the WSJ. I replied that perhaps she should consider that the WSJ has a conservative slant and that the accusations she leveled at me for reading news sources that are sympathetic to my views--she was also guilty of.
Then she told me I was insulting her-- "Why are you insulting me? You are insulting me!" I said "I'm not insulting you, I'm disagreeing with you." Then we agreed to not talk about politics.
But I did get her to agree to my statement that the politicians that pushed for and voted for deregulation should be put out of office in disgrace. Maybe when she reads the WSJ tomorrow she'll find out her candidate and all his fellow party members were deregulationists (lol).
She is not Jewish, she in her early 60's, white, middle class, Catholic-Italian heritage, originally from Yonkers, NY-- her father was blue collar trades. If she never moved to FL she might have possibly be laughing at Palin but her husband is some kind shyster broker that works for some concern associated with selling shares or interests in oil fields -- I'm not quite sure, he is very vague about it.
But the sweetest part was when I said "Thank God they didn't let him privatize Social Security, you'd never be able to retire."
Silence.
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