What's the worst thing that a conservative has ever said to you?

[Dark]

has ever said to you?

Mine was my repub aunt. We were arguing about the homeless. I pointed out that in my hometown, 1/3 of the homeless population is comprised of children.

Her reply?

"That's not my problem."

Children. Homeless. How heartless can you get?

[William769]

1. In my opinion? or their opinion?

[Dark]

2. In your opinon. n/t

[William769]

4. In my opinion none of them have said anything to hurt me.

What I believe I know to be true. So I take it with a grain of salt.

[Dark]

11. But I'm sure some conservative said something to disgust you.

I'm just curious, cause I've heard so many stupid things come from them, I want to see what's the worst that anyone's ever heard.

[William769]

17. Well that would be that all Homosexuals will burn in Hell.

[Tom Joad]

3. That Dan Quayle was smarter than I am.

[William769]

6. OMG that had to hurt!

[BlueIris]

104. Oh man. I would have thrown up.

And then immediately disassciated myself from that person.

[VOX]

151. Now **that** is way below the belt! n/t

[BrainRants]

5. I George Bush do solemnly swear...

nt

[William769]

8. Bingo! We have a winner!

[seabeyond]

7. nice middle aged fundie woman i really like in chapel

it is better we fight over there than fight on here. spring 2004. my mouth hung open. cowrad, how cowardly we are as a christian people, prefer others die because we are cowards, i said to her, loud passionately, in shock. was the first time i had heard this. and from this gentle christian soul. sittin in a chapel

[seabeyond]

9. or when my father talking to me about being born again,....

and me saying how religion has gripped this nation in division and hate and there was no way i could go to church with what they were teaching today. he said...... i hope you dont die tomorrow

father,......no no no.....lol

[sarcasmo]

128. My wife hears that from me every Sunday don't feel bad they are only

repeating what they were taught being brain washed. I refuse to be in a church full of hate filled people who think it's OK to kill over their instead of here. That gays shouldn't marry and all of their other bullshit that they speak. To quote NIN "If their is a Hell I'll see you their"

[seabeyond]

133. this is what i was saying to dad, religious community leaders,

friends..... i will NOT go to church and put my children in that environment. that would be walking off christs path, to me.... with what church is teaching today

told son's 2nd grade teacher the other day. religion is so a part of this community, just has spread throughout public school, on the street driving, all the crosses on mirrors, all the declaration of being christian in bumperstickers.

it is everywhere we turn, people boasting that they are christian.

i told them, christians made my son close the bible for the first time in his young life. it became spiritually damgaging to my son. i cut no slack. i challenge all to tell me out loud, am i christian. as they go thru their list.

get me outta this red place, lool

[Jeanette in FL]

20. My neighbors on their way home from church...

and we were talking about the war in Iraq. "We should blow them all up to smithereens and let Allah sort it out" I was flabbergasted. They had just come from church.

[seabeyond]

30. i know i sit here shaking my head. just amazes me n/t

[yewberry]

10. That my mom is going to go to Hell

because she's a lesbian.


(Geez, she's still my mom...)

[Dark]

14. You should have told them that if they ever ate shrimp, then they're going

to hell too.

www.godhatesshrimp.com

[yewberry]

32. Damned crustaceans!

(Poor little beasties, the hellfire will dry them all out...)

[bperci108]

48. But wait.....

What a wonderful, delicious aroma....

Someone save me a seat and I'll bring the cocktail sauce and the beer.

[yewberry]

58. Yuck. You can have mine.

I'll take the beer, though.

[auntAgonist]

16. how heartless!

She IS your mom. I cannot imagine ever even thinking a horrible thought like that let alone say it.

I'm sure that hurt.

[yewberry]

42. Yup.

Same person wondered aloud if I was "right with God" because of it. Whatever. Some people are just plain hurtful.

And thanks--I appreciate your kindness!

[July]

121. Don't you love how these Christoids (as opposed to Christians)

claim to know the mind of God, which is supposed to be heresy?

[seabeyond]

21. my mom is going to hell cause she committed suicide

this woman for 59 years lived in integrity and love and kindness and acceptance and goodness.... a chemical screw up in the brain, and she is going to hell.....

ys

[auntAgonist]

34. geeeeeeeeezus

I don't know where people get off saying such stupid shit. I'm so very sorry for your loss and her terrible pain.

.. i'm sorry

[seabeyond]

50. i am at peace with it, ty n/t

[yewberry]

55. Wow.

What kind of idiot says something like that?

Actually, never mind. I know the answer to that question.

[Katherine Brengle]

85. Eh, they just tell other people that they are going to Hell because they..

can't stand their own mind-numbing mediocrity...

They have to do something to keep it interesting.

[JitterbugPerfume]

12. that those people in New Orleans

should have just LEFT


Damn how can some people be so ignorant

[seabeyond]

26. that one got me too, a month ago, gods wrath for their indecency

that one was an explosion. then niece came back to say, but we all prayed for them..... condemn them and then aren't we good christians as we pray for these evil and lost souls. the arrogance, i told niece

[FreedomAngel82]

56. But what's really funny

is how all the places they mentioned in New Orleans DIDN'T get damaged. LOL!
Especially the French Quarter and they went on about that one and no damage at all. LOL.

[salin]

13. not necessarily the worst, but the funniest

pre Iraq invasion, Peace Vigil from 5-6pm; Truck kept driving around the courthouse yelling things like... "Get a Job" (we chuckled, b/c if the implication was we must not work b/c we were there... than what was the implication about him as he kept driving around the courthouse)... and then.... "If you don't like the country.... Move!" - to which we chuckled again, since clearly one of the founding principles of this country - freedom of speech - pretty much was driving this guy nuts, and perhaps for his sanity he needed to move somewhere where speech is not free.

[wryter2000]

15. That it's okay to torture Afghanis

My coworker finally admitted that we had no business in Iraq, so those people shouldn't be tortured. However, some people captured in Afghanistan might be working for Bin Laden, so it's okay to torture them for information. Otherwise, how were we going to win the war?

It old her we won WWII without torturing people, and she turned around and told me face-on that we had. I told her I couldn't speak for every action taken by every American in that war but that it was most assuredly not the practice of the US goverment or military to torture prisoners of war. She insisted -- with no facts or history to back it up -- that we certainly did torture POW's as a matter of policy.

This particular person told a Latino in our company that when someone commits gang violence his/her whole family should be rounded up and sent back to their country. Obviously for her, only Latino immigrants commit gang violence.

[Dark]

19. It's amazing to me that these people can function in everyday life. n/t

[FreedomAngel82]

57. Maybe she should talk to John McCain about torture

[MindPilot]

18. "They were told to leave..."

Me: "Oh so they should've just tossed a couple cases of Disani in the back of the Range Rover and headed to mom's place in the Hamptons?"
Con: "Don't be an ass."
Me: "Are you saying they deserved to die because they are poor?"
Con: "No, I'm saying they deserved to die because they were stupid."

[Dark]

22. That is pretty bad. Whatever happened to "compassionate conservatism"?

Oh, yeah. It never existed.

[laruemtt]

23. "you and your hippie friends

are like lambs that are going to be led to the slaughter." from ex-hubby............

[bperci108]

71. I've heard that one before, too.

My reply was:

"Well, I hope you're a good shot..."

...and I walked away.

[Katherine Brengle]

87. HOLY CRAP--is that why you split up? n/t

[WLKjr]

114. wow, I was told the same line but had this version

"You and your godless hippie friends are going to hell for not supporting GWB."


This was said with bible in hand that I am pretty sure that the monkey signed.

[July]

122. That is hilarious.

Wow, they've really bought the BS from people who think they're "wackos," haven't they?

[boobooday]

24. "I think we should nuke them all."

That was my psychopathic carpet installer, after he saw the DU sticker on my file cabinet. He was referring to Muslims, I'm sure, but no doubt liberals would be next.

And my boss, during the Poppy/Dukakis race (1988), who left work early on election day (while I was frantically trying to finish my work and get to the polls), and walking past my desk said, "I'm off to go negate your vote."

[MiniMe]

124. Yup, I've heard that one too

Just nuke the entire Middle East. Are these people idiots? Oh yeah, never mind.

[mikelewis]

25. "Fuck them N*ggers, I'm so sick of everyone in the country..."

"worrying about a bunch of thieving, raping and murdering N*ggers."

This was said by my sister in reference to Katrina. Needless to say, I haven't talked to her since and probably never will again.

[Caoimhe]

41. wow

sorry but your sister is a $%#^!&


i'm so sorry for you

[Katherine Brengle]

91. god help her... my favorite ridiculous comment about katrina was when

black people were finding whatever food they could in a flooded city, they were looters and thieves, but when white people did it, they were survivors.

Anyone who says racism no longer exists in force in America is floating through life with blinders on.

I'm sorry you had to go through that with your sister, though. That's very sad. My father is very much like that--though not about blacks. He has very strong prejudices against Arabs though. (I was dating an Egyptian man a few years ago, when 9/11 happened, and it was not pleasant dealing with my father. We are no longer on speaking terms however (me and my father, not me and my ex lol).)

[bliss_eternal]

27. A few things--first my father telling me

that I was not to speak disrespectfully about the president of the us in his house. At the time, that was Nixon and I was but a tiny tot. I do recall retorting that it was my house, too and was punished.

The next one was a (former) friend declaring that he could not endorse equal rights for gays, because the bible says that they aren't entitled to god's glory or riches--whatever.

Oh and then he went on to tell me he was concerned about me because I refuse to attend church--you know, my soul IS in danger.

[salin]

31. ironically

it sounds that spiritually his soul is lost.

[FreedomAngel82]

59. I guess he don't get freewill

It does exist and if God wanted everyone to do what He wanted why did he give us freewill? So did your dad bash Clinton? I'm sorry you were punished. I guess they don't know that we don't live in a religious theocracy. It amazes me how people don't like the law. They should go start their own country.

[bmbmd]

28. My friend Keith L. told me I was going to hell

for voting for Al Gore. He meant it.

[FreedomAngel82]

61. Oh brother

So what about war and killing? Do they not know the seven deadly sins? George Bush has committed all of them and they happily follow. It's so sad.

[zanne]

130. Oh! Oh! I got that one, too!

My fundie sister told me that, because I don't belong to an organized religion, I'm going to hell. AND....AND....SOON! (I told her to leave my house.)

[Name removed]

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[laheina]

65. Funny.

My brother in law tried to tell me one day that there is no such thing as a Palestinian. For my mother's sake, I kept my mouth shut, but I wanted to ask him who the Isrealis were fighting with then.

[proud patriot]

33. some lady told me I should be "hung for treason"

to my face .

[demgurl]

35. Why not leave our country and find one you like better?

This was in response to a bumper sticker. I did not mind what they said as much as the tone and the fact it was said in front of my kids.

[spacelady]

36. My career military brother said, "You don't know what you're talking

about" in reference to my remarks about Downing Street documents & the Lies Leading up to the Iraq "War". He claimed he had never heard of them.

[Katherine Brengle]

92. He may not have heard of them, but he could have at least listened...

My hubby is in the military (he joined before we ever met), but he knows that this war is immoral and illegal and if he could have done so without ending up in prison, he would have refused to go to Iraq.

(Just wanted to make sure we gave all respect due to those members of the military who are on our side--not all of them are cons.)

[Caoimhe]

37. Something about how awful Bill Clinton's blow job was

in the context of how good/fair/awful a president Chimpstain is. I was appalled.

[BlueIris]

107. ...What?

I just...what?

Just out of curiosity...what context? Clinton's presidency was "bad," as evidenced by the Lewinsky encounters, therefore Bush's presidency must be good because...no (known) blow jobs? Huh?

[Caoimhe]

138. Yes, somewhat like that

my mom is a faux news viewer and spewer. At Thanksgiving last year we were sitting around watching the news and Bush came on. My mom said something like "I suppose you still hate him" to bait me, my husband got a terrified look in his eyes and I said "Of course I hate him, why wouldn't I? He's a horrible president"

She rolled her eyes up into her head and said "Well at least he didn't get a blow job". It's one of those things people say to be ironic, but from her, she really meant it.

From there it got really ugly, my husband trying to motion for me to end it. I visit my parents on holidays only, mostly because of this giant rift. Sad, but true.

[Breeze54]

38. I mostly avoid freepers and pigs but last

year when my son was deployed to Iraq,
I had a freeper, on a messageboard, say:
(during a discussion about stop-loss)
"I don't care if your son is killed in Iraq!
That's his tough luck!"

[Caoimhe]

39. omg

well they don't care.. it's all for a higher purpose.. yet they don't know what..

[laheina]

69. All of their talk about supporting the troops

and their families is just talk. When it comes down to it, they never follow through. I'm sorry that happened to you!

[Katherine Brengle]

93. I'm so sorry. Especially considering the source--they are the ones who

supposedly support our troops 100% and I have personally seen far too many of them act this way.

Is your son back now?

[Breeze54]

135. Hi Katherine and Welcome!

No, he's not back yet.
He may be there another six months...
He doesn't know yet.
Thanks for asking.
Your right!
The freepers are all talk and no action.
They don't give a shit about anybody.
They only care about the bottom line.
As in $$$$$$!!

[Mnemosyne]

40. My last therapist told me if I don't like America...

Coward wouldn't finish his sentence. He spent my 50 mins. bragging about how big a hole his guns could blow in someone and what a huge dog he has.

I saw him one time.

He worked at a prison last! So much for rehabilitation. He hates people.

Inpeace and continued hope,
V

[Caoimhe]

44. wow

did you get a refund? what a waste of oxygen.. erm.. time.. that fucktard was

[Mnemosyne]

63. The one before him was a funnymentalist!

Had no clue in the world about anything. He had Dobson books and literature all over the place. That one didn't last either.

It must be that faith-based initiative funding. I'm in a small town -7500 pop. 12,000 total surrounding area incl. and there are 3, count 'em 3, therapists in the entire town! Unemployment is so bad that McD's only hires maybe once or twice a year! The suicide rate is astonishing.

I've possibly lucked out this time with a nice woman. I don't feel she will turn me in for hating * guts at least! How strange/disgusting to have to look for a therapist using that as a qualification.

Is it fascism yet? Yes.

What a country.

In peace and hope, still.
V

[Maru Kitteh]

157. Yikes I would have asked for my money back and then told him

he needs to see someone about his obvious penis issues, then we'd probably have to move on to how hard it was to please father.

[Gregorian]

43. There's lots of trees.

But this was said in Humboldt county, just after Bush was placed in office, and the trees were just starting to come down. By trees I mean old growth redwoods. 8 foot diameter ancients that were a thousand years old. This was said by a woman who has a store in a small town. And the store is situated on a corner where the trucks would come zooming by on the way to the mill. I thought they had stopped logging old growth redwoods, since there are only about 1% of them left. But thank Bush, they started again. And to think they called it Healthy Forests. Bullshit. This was the hardest thing I've ever had to watch. Not the typical truck with ten trees on it. One huge tree per truck. Not unlike seeing the harpooning of a whale.

I said there were only one percent of the trees left. And she said, "There's lots of trees". This is a conservative family owned store. They are multifaceted. They also branch out into land subdivision kinds of shit. Really awful, but friendly, people.

Lots of trees. Not any more. I was highly offended. Little did I know, the worst was yet to come.

[Caoimhe]

47. HA! yes I've heard that

I grew up in an Oregon coastal range/willamette valley logger town. Everyone werkd et the mill.. and by god their sons and gransons wood werk there too.

[meganmonkey]

145. Man, watching those trucks go by made me cry

I lived outside Arcata for a few months once (in 1997, I think).

Those trees are incredible. Absolutely incredible. Seeing them cut down was like watching man figure out how to kill an ancient God so no one could worship it anymore. Now they worship their TVs on a wooden stand made from the body of these ancient beings.

[yorkiemommie1]

45. i said a lot more of our soldiers will die in Iraq

and he said, 'well, they would be dead anyway'.

[FreedomAngel82]

46. What an awful person

I'm not sure. I can't think of anything now.

[DawgHouse]

49. Will you sign this petition to protect the sanctity of marriage?

[Montauk6]

51. I heard plenty when I was "in the life"

I pissed off some of my then-buddies when I called into local Detroit talk-show back in the early 90s. I was agreeing with the host Marie Kaigler, a black conservative with moderate leanings, that David Duke (who was running for LA governor) was not the way to go. I pretty much argued that his whole "I'm reformed" schtick was just a facade and that, indeed, some of his white-supremacy cohorts were running his campaign. OHHHHH, did I get an earful from the guys for that one. In fact one guy, who was another black conservative, tried to reassure with, and I'm not doing a great job of quoting, "Look, let's say you're right and that he's still a Klansman; at least, you KNOW where he stands! Better than some liberal who'll lie in your face..."

Not making this up.

[FreedomAngel82]

52. I do remember somethings with me

It wasn't directed towards me but it shocked me. Two things actually. In 2004 in October my Mom had a birthday party with some close friends and family and my mother, cousin and I were coming home from getting something and we passed this house that I know young people live at (college age) and my cousin made her right hand as a gun and went "bamb" to the Kerry/Edwards sign. My mouth hung down in shock. Than that same month I was at church for the morning services and my brother was talking to a family friend and the person said how in her neighborhood anyone who had a Kerry sign would've been shot. Of course that could mean anything but still shocked me and this was right before the sermon that morning. I could tell my brother felt uncomfortable with that since me, him and my mother all voted for Kerry/Edwards. That's really all and one of my good friends asked me who I was voting for and I said "John Kerry" proudly (since I'm a very proud Kerrycrat) and she just said he was a flipflopper and I of course defended him and that's the last time we talked about politics. My two aunts (dad's sisters) said they were "ashamed" of me because I had a Kerry bumper sticker on my car. And my grandmother on my dad's side (who is now against Bush) than was wondering why I was "voting against the government." Heh. My dad said: "you know how young people always rebel."

[ashling]

53. Before the election

A guy in a pickup pulled up next to mine at the gas pump at a convenience store. The driver asked whether I was really going to vote for Kerry.

I responded "why yes, I think I will."

He growled: "You piece of shit!"

As he started to drive off, I said to him:

"well I hope that makes you feel better ... because it sure made you look stupid."

[raccoon]

154. Great response! I'm going to keep it for possible use. nt

[Carni]

54. "you have no moral integrity"

An in law... and then they said they were taking thier football and going home and if their wife didn't follow them they would divorce them for siding with me.

This was all because I said Dick Cheney had been the CEO of Hallibuton in 2002--go figure, we haven't spoken with the asshole or his wife in 4 years.

Good riddance

[BuyingThyme]

60. "Body of Christ."

[ingac70]

62. My repub aunt says--- no one forced Katrina victims.....

to live on the Gulf Coast!

[CoffeeCat]

64. Oh boy, where do I start?

I grew up with a pathological radical, right wing nut job--my father.

I cut off all communication with in a few years ago. After some time away from
his dysfunction, I can laugh at his lunacy.

Here are a few examples of his "compassionate conservatism." I hope you enjoy them as much as I did!

--My father knew I volunteered at homeless shelters and cared deeply about the issue of homeless children. At my sister's engagement party--a swanky, froo froo event--he said, "Hey! I think I hear a homeless person scratching at the window! I know you care about those types. Why don't you run out and bring them some brie. Would a homeless person know what to do with brie? Hahahaha!"

--My father is a business owner. Despite the fact that his wife will soon be in a wheelchair due to childhood polio, he has utter contempt for anyone with a disability. After the Americans With Disabilities Act was passed, he openly stated that he would not alter his businesses (restaurants) to make them handicap accessible. He still hasn't and refuses.

--I just received my Social Security statement in the mail. It lists how much money I earned each year. During the years that I worked for my father during high school, I probably only worked 20 hours per week, and made around $4,000 per year. However, during those years, my income is listed as under $100. My father didn't claim any income for me during those years, because it would have cost him money to send in 6 percent Social Security taxes on that income. Conversely, my siblings and I were forced to endorse weekly employment checks made out to us. There were seven sibs in my family and each check was for about $200. We never saw the money, we just endorsed the checks. I have no idea what this little scheme was--but I'm sure he was avoiding taxes or increasing his profit margins by exploiting his children.

--My father has hired hundreds of employees during his shallow life. One of them was African American. He told me, "I tried. I tried to hire one of them. However, she was bad. Really bad. It's not my fault that they're that way."

--I used to write a column for a newspaper and I was responding to a reader who didn't like a comment made about a local Indian tribe. My father said, "Hey! Why don't you respond this way! Say, I didn't realize that you people could read! I thought all of you Indians were illiterate, or too drunk or too busy playing bingo. Next time, I'll be more careful!!"

Ah, what class. What tact. What family values. I got a million of these! My brother and I both agree that we should write a book about our life with this narcissistic buffoon. Thank God we escaped...and that we're both well-adjusted Democrats!

[Straight Shooter]

83. Yikes! I hate to say it, your father is a white collar criminal.

Sometimes the acorn falls far, far away from the tree, and thank goodness for that, eh?

------------------

Well, if anyone is reading this, the worst thing a conservative said to me was, "You'll vote Republican when you get educated." His wife's jaw dropped to the floor; I was just visiting her for a friendly chat. It was a real insult because I worked hard to get my education. I should have looked him in the eye and said, "You mean indoctrinated instead of educated, don't you?" *sigh* The things we think of too late to say them.

[Katherine Brengle]

94. WOW. My best friend grew up in a house like that.......

She grew up Mormon in a trailer in eastcuttybumf**k Vermont.

Her father was not only racist and holier-than-thou--he was also a child molestor...

Needless to say, she is now cut off from her parents and is an avowed liberal living in sin with her transgendered boyfriend in New York

[Liberty Belle]

66. A GOP leader accused me of being on a union payroll

and hinted to the media that I must be sleeping with union bosses after I wrote an article exposing his scheme to break the teacher's union, privatize our public schools and outsource jobs to corporate cronies.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

67. I'm having kids. n/t

[Serenades]

68. Very common, indeed

The "not my problem" comments are VERY VERY common. I hear it all the time, even from family members.

[raccoon]

156. I've heard that one too..anybody ever tried throwing

"What would Jesus do?" back in their face when they say that?

[JanMichael]

70. "I wish you weren't mine"

In an argument when I was 14 and he was 34. 23 years ago.

Whatta asshole. Then and now. He's still a fuckin Conservadick.

[Straight Shooter]

86. You should have retorted, "I'm probably not."

Of course that means you would have got your a** whupped, right?

(No offense to your mom. Sometimes parents say the meanest things just because they have the upper hand.)

[JanMichael]

95. Yep. But it was "dad" and I lived alone with him.

Then again I almost blasted him with a rifle when I was 16. He got physical one too many times and a confrontation took place where he had to back his ass off. Conservatives are funny that way. When you respond to them with something that fucks up their attck, ie. dead, they usually run.

I suppose my life would have been totally different had he taken one more step forward instead if backing off. Prison for me I suppose.

That why I have some sympathy for kids that off abusive parents. I could have been in the same place.

[Straight Shooter]

99. It's funny how the meanest people can raise the most compassionate kids.

Thank goodness he didn't take that step.

[Katherine Brengle]

96. Jesus Christmas!!!! n/t

[fishwax]

72. that I was a fucked up anti-american marxist piece of shit

well, that might not have been the worst, but it was the most memorable

[dsc]

73. It is hard to choose between

One conservative who told me that I shouldn't waste time teaching n word children (I was working in an entirely African American school at the time) or the one who said "faggots like you should all die of AIDS and get it over with already".

[Lorien]

74. I pro-life repug wife of a colleague told me she would never adopt

because she was afraid the adopted child would "corrupt" her own children (she had two girls, but had a history of miscarriages and wanted more kids). She added "every time you hear of a kid on the news who kills it's parents, it's always an adopted kid. I wouldn't put my family at risk like that".

[seabeyond]

76. i wanted another after hubby got snipped. he said adopt. i told

his parents..... oh so compassionate rich, filthy rich repugs. they smiled. that night when hubby came home and i was in my room i heard them in there telling hubby all hte bullshit horror story of why you shouldnt adopt. chicken shits wouldnt dare say anything to my face. they ALWAYS do it behind my back

[bumblebee1]

100. Lorien,

This woman never heard of the Menendez brothers.

[Lorien]

102. Lol, actually, I brought them up

along with a few other local examples (Florida has a high homicide rate, like most red states). I asked her if her difficulties with pregnancy might not be a "sign from God" that she was meant to adopt, especially since she pickets abortion clinics. She said her pregnancy difficulties only required "more faith" and ignored the rest.

Oh, and she also rejected the use of painkillers while giving birth-not for health reasons, but because she was determined to "suffer for the sins of Eve" (extreme pain is God's way of punishing women for Eve's tempting of Adam with the apple).

*sigh*

[laheina]

75. I have a million of these.

My father is an extreme fundamentalist, right-wing nut job.

When I was 9, he asked me what religion I was. Not realizing what I was walking into, I said "well mom's Catholic--I guess I'm Catholic." I ended up getting a half hour, fire and brimstone lecture on how I was "going to hell."

Not only was I going to hell, so was my sister's cat. It died when she was 6 or 7, and my step mother made sure that she knew the score on that one.

The mentally handicapped boy that went to his church--he was going to hell too. It seems that he didn't have the capacity to understand what it meant to ask Jesus into his heart. My father seemed irritated that they even let me into the building.

[OnceUponTimeOnTheNet]

77. I am a conservative Dem, But the worse thing a Bot has

said to me, was when my niece sassed me back in 2000, "Get Over It" Never, will I forget this. I was so shocked, here was a young woman related to me, attempting to redicule me over politics. She is one of those born agains with a preacher that LoVEs bush.
This episode stands out to me over anything. Family split.

[laheina]

81. Hi OnceUponTimeOnTheNet!!

Welcome to DU! Gee your name is long.

[Initech]

78. "Think for yourself".

Wait... a conservative telling me I should think for myself?

This guy also called me a "fad following teenager" (I'm 25!) and said that I'm a by-product of the MSM.

But this same guy also cites Fox News, the Drudge "Report", and the New York Post as legitimate news sources. Total freeper, major tool.

[mitchum]

79. "My Fellow Americans..."

[Odin2005]

80. I was told that being a socialist made me un-American by definition

By my own cousin.

[SoKalKyle]

82. Although he has mellowed a bit with age...

My father has told me three things:

1. When I told him I was gay he said 'I'll just have to have another son to give me grandkids" as if that was all i was intended for

2 If I ever marry another man I will be disowned

3 When I told him I was a Buddhist he said he just doesn't want to look down on me from heaven as I burn in hell...

Oddly enough, I still love him and he loves me as well as my partner (I haven't gotten married yet, but his threat was not the reason).

[Katherine Brengle]

84. I get hate mail on a fairly regular basis from conservatives who read...

my articles, and generally they like to tell me a) that I am stupid (gotta love them good 'ole ad hominem attacks), b) that I am going to Hell, and c) that my husband (who is a United States Marine Corps reservist) must have been really desperate to marry someone as unAmerican as me.

What do you expect? Anyone who chooses to listen to Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity is bound to have a little bit of an anger management problem...

[Az_lefty]

88. Go Steelers!

I hate limbaugh and him damned Steelers. The Seahawks got robbed and that's a fact!

[Nomen Tuum]

89. My family disowned me because of who I love

I fell in love with a wonderful woman. My family disowned me because of the color of her skin. What hurt the most is when they start quoting the Curse of Ham shit, and yes they do go to church every Sunday.

I wouldn't waste a second with such evil as Christianity.

[Katherine Brengle]

97. So sad....................... n/t

[Skittles]

103. I talked to a lesbian coworker about letting her family go

they were always making her feel bad, putting her down - I told her to stand up for herself and demand respect and if she didn't get it, then let them go...life is too short to put up with that garbage no matter who it comes from

[AspenRose]

171. Guess they don't know about Moses' wife.

She was Ethiopian (Numbers chapter 12). And when Miriam was badmouthing about her, God smote her with leprosy.

Guess they skipped over that chapter.

[ekelly]

90. Regarding gays having children:

Puke: Gays shouldn't be allowed to raise children
Me: Why not?
Puke: Well, ya know how they're always having sex in front of them and leaving their sex toys laying
around.
Me: Really? I'm curious to know how you know about that. And, by the way, some heteros do the same
thing.....it's called BAD PARENTING.....not homosexuality.

[Katherine Brengle]

98. WTF?????? I've never met anyone who has sex in front of anyone!

Much less their children!

Where the hell do people get ideas like this?????????????????????

[Skittles]

101. when I mentioned that US mlitary deaths had reached 2000

a conservative coworker said, "WHO CARES" ???

[Maru Kitteh]

161. WOW. Who cares?

In a perfect world you could raid some hollywood special effects studio for two thousand fake corpses in various states of decay and leave them piled up all over her front lawn and doorstep. Find some nice ripe roadkill and throw it in so she gets the smell thing going on too, run a stake into one of the "corpses" on her steps with a sign attached that says "WHO CARES?".

In a perfect world.

[Peter Frank]

105. "You support Kerry? I thought you had morals."

Verbatim.

[BlueIris]

106. "I'm voting for Kerry so I won't get drafted; if he lets gays get married,

I OUTTA here."

Actual comment made to me after I registered the comment-maker to vote.

[B Calm]

108. What gets me, the republican party actually think they're conservative.

The joke is on the voter...

[Binka]

109. A Freeper Named Teflon Talon Said This To Me On Du Before Her Pizza

"If your son goes back to Iraq and gets killed in battle, it'll be your karma coming back to you for your poisonous, ugly big mouth. If I had a mother like you, I'd enlist, too and get as far away from you as I could.

You're nothing but a nasty little bitch who deserves whatever bad fortune you get. It's just too bad your son has to pay the price for you being so unkind."

[B Calm]

110. When I asked, have you ever thought about going into the military?

The young man replied: I tried, but I couldn't pass my military physical..

I asked the young man where did they send him for his military physical?

The boy stood there dumbfounded..

[KitchenWitch]

111. My republican dad called me a nazi

for being in support of my city's smoking ban. (I have serious lung problems, and can end up hospitalized after even minimal exposure to smoke).

[laruemtt]

112. now i'm remembering more -

a student at a community college where i worked told me "those people starving in Africa should get a job." i swear. it was in the 80s. i guess raygun was his god. i was dumbfounded but said something like, 'you're insane.'

[JNelson6563]

113. That the Democratic Party is

the party of "niggers and losers". I was beyond shocked.

Julie

[Behind the Aegis]

115. Honestly, I don't give a rat's ass...

...what the worst thing a conservative has said. I expect stupid shit from them. "I can't go there, it is "too dark."" "What if someone thinks I am gay because I went to that movie." I am more appalled by what supposed 'progressives' have said to me.

[phylny]

116. That gay people should not be able to marry because it

destroys the sanctity of family life, which the US has a vested interest in promoting. Oh, and gay marriages would make him pay more taxes.

This from a guy who is divorced (sanctity of family life my ass) and owns two homes worth over $700K each and a sailboat worth about $40K.

[alfred e bush]

117. fundy preacher

drawing a uaw pension from gm....social security check for him and his ( never worked a day in her life}wife...his 51 yr old loon son in law drawing ss disability for 16 yrs ( hes abusive...but his daughter would leave him...due to babble teachings)...daughter voted for smirky...cuz of gay marriage.....lollololol......his two grandsons ...drawing welfare and food stamps ( due to lack of jobs in the area)

he says...dems and libs are evil and never do anything for the people....lol....

and sadly...his church of 150 families....hears this insanity ever sunday, monday and wednesday

[ComerPerro]

118. about Condi, "She's too smart to be black"

[Katherine Brengle]

162. wtf... that's disturbing. n/t

[July]

119. I don't care about dead Iraqis or dead American soldiers

(they knew they could get killed when they signed up), we have to intimidate the rest of the world.

My cousin.

[tenshi816]

120. My stepmother says

that poor people are that way because they're lazy. I once pointed out that both she and my dad grew up dirt poor on farms in Georgia and she just sputtered and said "but it was different back then, and we worked hard when we were growing up". So I said yes, but you were poor in spite of working hard. More sputtering, and no logical response.

She still believes poor = lazy when she's talking about other people, specifically minorities.

[peacebaby3]

123. When my husband was serving in Iraq and I said how bad it was over there

and how sick and worried I had been, etc, one of my ex-friend made a horrible comment. Of course, she fully supported * and the war and I can't remember exactly how it came up, but she made the comment that I was not sacrificing. She said my husband was sacrificing, but not me. I told her that I certainly agreed that he was sacrificing a great deal more, but she was completely delusional if she thought that people who have loved ones serving are not sacrificing also.

This was someone I had been really good friends with for over a decade. Just goes to show you how * is a divider and not a uniter because we are no longer friends. I really tried because she said that back in the summer of 2003 and she and I quit talking this past summer because I just couldn't take it anymore after she made a comment about how some of her friends from her church would love to "get a hold of me" and I know she meant that I was not "christian" enough, but I would be more than happy to stand right beside her in front of God any day.

None of these things used to come up or be a problem until the last 3 years or so. Too bad * destroyed a friendship.

On edit: I had several freeptards say horrible things to me on message boards when my husband was in Iraq. Many of them would often tell me that as his wife I was spreading a message from him about how bad the war was and how he didn't support the CIC and that he was violating the UCMJ and as soon as they could figure out who I am and track me down, they were going to report him because he should be court martialed and executed for treason. Several of them also told me that they hoped he was killed while in Iraq because he was a liability for his unit. LOL Yeah, right. I did get a little scared because they were so vicious and threatening, that I was worried they might show up at my house and try to kill me or something. One of them did contact me and say he had my personal information and was going to give it to everyone, but he had my previous address and I had moved a few months earlier...thank goodness.

[Katherine Brengle]

163. That's scary--but it happens to me too...

My husband is in Iraq now, and I do consider it a risk for both of us for me to do what I do (I am a freelance writer--political commentary/antiwar).

When he first left for Iraq, he had been gone about a week and he called to tell me that one of his COs had read my online journal (I used to post some of my articles to it, just for fun) and wanted me to erase the current entry. I had written a very angry paragraph about how my husband was being sent overseas to fight in an illegal and immoral war (no personal/sensitive information included, no names, no nothing).

I found it really disturbing that they were keeping tabs on me. So I wrote an article for OpEd News and told the story. I was scared for awhile that he might face retribution for what I did, but he supports my work, so I did what I had to do.

Don't let them make you afraid--don't give away your power. (I know it's scary...)

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

125. "You liberal Bush haters are cheering for more dead troops in Iraq......

.....just so you can keep quoting the numbers of dead soldiers."

I almost punched the dickwad out who said that to me.

[adigal]

126. MY brother-in-law, a physician, told me

that he did not give a damn if his neighbors were starving. All he cared about was that his daughter become a doctor or lawyer.

I told him that if he and his ilk have their way, the gates around his community will not be big enough to keep out all of the starving people.

[OnionPatch]

127. I can't even repeat it

My own father was the worst racist I've ever known, or maybe I just knew him well enough to have the privilege to hear his deepest, deranged thoughts. Anyway, it was a horrible racist statement that I wouldn't even repeat.

[RB TexLa]

129. "is anyone sitting here"

At a hotel bar, a group of women were sitting at a table just going on and on about Bill Clinton. One of them came over to the table I was sitting at and asked if anyone was sitting in the other chair smiling. I told her "no, no one is sitting there," got up picked up the chair and took it to the table of her friends sat it down and said "there you go, have a nice day."

[liberalitch]

131. I hope that the office of homeland security.....

sees you for the heathen traitor you are and locks you up.....

If I could I'd kill your cats..... I see them sitting in the window everyday.

For months I was terrified that I'd come home to two dead kitties

[Caoimhe]

140. Wow was this a note?

or did he/she say it to you? Did you report it?

[liberalitch]

160. It was something a neighbor said to me after this whole....

domestic spying thing came out....
My sister and I were dancing around in front of my apt building, drunk and making up limmericks about it:

And so we were attacked on 911
and many good americans went to heaven
Iraqi oil we've been thievin'
over our rights bush's been seethin'
and has used the patriot act
to void constitution as fact

.....for example
and yes we did report it to the norfolk police.... they took his side
oh, but said "if he kills your cats... call us" (followed by a smirk)

[iamthebandfanman]

132. lol

"people dont deserve what they cant take. its called survival of the fitess"

[Zhade]

134. Here? "The DLC is the way to win, and most people support its policies."

Complete lie.

[elehhhhna]

136. "GW learned how to be President by working for his dad in the WH"

Not the worst, but the stoopidest.

[iamthebandfanman]

137. lol

more like the funniest

shewie, that made me laugh.
thanks

[meganmonkey]

139. "Stupid fucking cunt bitch"

I think that's the exact wording, it's been awhile.

This was in reaction to my bumper stickers right before the 2004 election.

I thought the guy was gonna kick my ass

[titoresque]

141. Went to dinner with repuke in-laws after seeing Fahrenheit

9/11 and had discussion with Mother and Father-in-law.
My FIL pretended to sleep during the entire movie and afterward wanted to discuss the film. I said "well let's have the discussion when you actually SEE the movie ok?!" He said "I listened, my eyes were just closed" (which is how they live their lives!) anyhow, at dinner after My MIL watched the entire thing skwirming in her seat she said "We should have just dropped a nuke on them, then we wouldn't be having this problem"

My mouth dropped and I had to hold back tears of rage!!!!!!!
These are so-called Christian people who believe my wife and I will burn in hell because we are gay.
Disgusting!!!!

[Katherine Brengle]

164. I went to see it with my husband and best friend and I cried the entire

time... I couldn't imagine anyone walking away from that with their right-wing fanaticism intact...

[alfredo]

142. That blacks should be sterilized. She worked with

operation rescue.

[Katherine Brengle]

165. f*ed up... did you read LaShawn Barber's column last week about...

Margaret Sanger being a eugenicist? I wonder how she feels about people on her own side who say things like that...

Op Rescue is f*ed up--they don't want to rescue anyone...

[alfredo]

166. I've heard that, but haven't done any research of Ms Sanger.

Op Rescue has a lot of sick people among their ranks.

[gasperc]

143. Bush is a great president

I felt like sticking an ice poker into my skull

[BurtWorm]

144. This isn't the worst thing, but I happened to be thinking of this recently

I still have to laugh at the sheer unwitting hypocrisy of it.

On a conservative board during the 2004 election, I made fun of the image of two veterans with great big beer bellies standing up and turning their backs on John Kerry during a speech at the VFW or some such organization. I said maybe these two sad sacks should stand up and turn their backs to the dinner table once in a while. Well, this swiftboating board, which has joined in all summer long spreading shit about Kerry's Purple Hearts, got all huffy and puffy about *my* disrespect to veterans and banned me from the site.

I'm sure the real motive, which they were too unself-aware to realize, was that I was constantly "handing their asses to them" in debate.

[genie_weenie]

146. You have to admit that if you don't support the war in iraq

you *really* don't support the troops.

Me, slightly dumfounded retorts, I support them now, and I supported them when I was providing intel for them and going around on patrols last year.

[Rocknrule]

147. Off the top of my head?

Besides the usual "love Bush or leave it, go to France you liberal traitor faggot terraist anti-American n*****-loving commie piece of shit"?

"Anyone who doesn't like Bush should be shot"

And this was from a 14-year old. The Hitler Youth seems to have made a comeback

[More Than A Feeling]

148. One guy said the tsunami wasn't as bad as Hurricane Katrina

because the tsunami killed mostly non-americans. Then I called him a racist fuck, and left the table.

[fleabert]

149. My uncle called me stupid and immature, on several occasions.

He's 16 years older than me and doesn't see the irony in that comment.

he also throws the old line out about how young=liberal and idealist, and old=conservative and wise.

and that as soon as I have some money, I will become a Republican because I will want to hold onto my money. (he said that before I had money, I've got some now and I am a bigger bleeding heart now than I was when I was poor)

[Rocknrule]

150. After reading all these, I have come to 1 conclusion

Conservatives, especially those who have been poisoned by Bush Christianity, are the meanest, cruelest, most heartless, most selfish, most intolerant, most violent creatures that ever lived.

They have always been that way. They practiced slavery, started almost every war in history, killed 6 million Jews, fought the civil rights movement, gunned down 4 students at Kent State, blew up a building in OKC, and killed a dozen of their classmates in Littleton. As far as I'm concerned, the same kind of people with the same violent beliefs and bloodsoaked goals committed all these acts.

[VOX]

153. Agree 100%; and yet, in their eyes, we're the "hate-filled liberals."

We're stereotyped as America-haters, freedom-haters, family-haters, troop-haters, etc., etc., etc.

It's the ultimate mass case of delusion and projection!

[Rocknrule]

155. I know, WTF?

They're the ones who get on Fox News and start raving "All you liberal traitors better hide in your homes because I'm coming for EVERYONE now and I will be armed to the (censored) TEETH and I WILL (censored) KILL EVERYONE!!!!!!!!!!"

I think, with the recent gay bar massacre and all, their hate is starting to produce tangible results.

[Flying Dream Blues]

152. "I guess you Democrats are just sorry more people (soldiers)

didn't die in the Iraq Invasion." This was right after shock and awe, just before * declared "Mission Accomplished," so she was gloating over the success of *'s "mission."

My blood turned to ice water and my knees went weak, I was so stunned. It was so far beyond anything I could imagine saying to her, or to anyone. Amazing how they are able to so seamlessly project their own bloodlust onto the ones trying to keep the peace.

[SillyGoose]

158. That the children in Iraq would have been killed by Saddam anyway

so why should we get upset when they are killed by bombs.

That was said to me by a so-called Christian Bush supporter in 2004. I still can't believe it.

[Yollam]

159. EVERY time I've talked about McJobs or progressive taxation or poverty...

...they invitably say (online) "you should just get a job and stop smoking weed", or "you should have gotten a better education" or something along those lines. Then I have to first explain that -HELLO! I'm not talking about myself. I'm broke, but I don't make minimum wage. I make three times that and I'm still struggling, so what does that tell you about the people who do live on minimum wage? But to them, a society where a third or more have to scrape by on less than $18K/yr. is totally acceptable! To me that's shocking. I would like to see one of these thugs try to survive on those slave wages. They are sick, evil people.

[LuCifer]

167. "Nazis were socialist liberals"

I shit you not, I actually got an email from this DUMBASS [e-mail] who actually said this. Words fail me.

Lu

[callous taoboy]

168. "If Jesse Jackson gets elected you can bet....

that every black person will have plenty of change jangling in his pockets." My dad, 1988.

[callous taoboy]

169. "Why should any of my hard earned money...

go to help pay for some poor black kid's CAT scan over in East Dallas?" My trust-fund hippy brother, 2001.

[Nutmegger]

170. Called my faimly "Marxists"

because I told them that we believe in a single payer health care system. Soooo yeah, we're all Marxists now.

And something similar to the OP.

Freepers...

[Tinksrival]

172. I have two, I don't know which was worse.

First, back in 2002 I had a repub dentist who went back and forth with his assistants on stuff in the news so I knew he was repub. When my husband got laid off from his IT job and we had to go on cobra the nice repub informed me that my husband losing his job was a necessary adjustment in the IT market. When I had to go back for a follow-up, I informed them that my husband had gotten a new job but it was thirty thousand less a year than what he had been making. The asshole dentist that I had for our family for over five years then informs me that we just have to adjust because my husband job was not worth what he was getting paid. I then informed him that my husband was a network architect for global companies and one of the first 400 CCIE (Cisco Certified Information Experts) in the world and worked damn hard and deserved every penny he earned and I would not pay one more cent to an ignorant dentist with an over inflated ego with half the intelligence.

Second is my repub mother-in-law. Before the election I tried to talk some sense into her and her husband. I talked about voting for an alternative to *ush which she immediately brought up Clinton.
I expected this but then she says she could never have respect for that "Dumb bitch" Hillary for standing by Bill Clinton after Lewinski. She said it with such disdain I couldn't believe it. You see, she had confided to me earlier in the year that she was "seeing" a professor in an another state that she had meet online in a geneology chat room! She was having an affair! I looked her straight in the eye and in front of her husband said, "You mean to tell me that you have lived your life in such a way that you have NEVER done anything in which IF you got caught you would want forgiveness???!!!" She turned a color that I had never seen before! I didn't out her but I came damn close! We don't talk much anymore! She doesn't like confiding her little secrets anymore, which is good cause I didn't want to hear them in the first place!

[AspenRose]

173. You're sure to find some GEMS at this site

http://www.fstdt.com /

"Compassionate Conservatism" at its finest!

[schmuls]

174. "you are close to being a traitor" (because I was talking about

my feelings on the Iraq war)

[spuddonna]

175. My father-in-law said he was pro-choice...

...because he didn't think poor people should be allowed to have kids. His logic goes like this: "Poor people have many kids to get the tax credits, dependent claims, and welfare so they are rewarded financially for big families. If we forced them onto birth control, like the implant methods, then they'd have less financial incentive to stay on welfare, etc..."

I pointed out to him that if his insane view had been realized years earlier, I wouldn't be sitting there before him, as my father had become unemployed during my mother's pregnancy.

He was shocked, like "I know someone who was poor?!" (sigh)

He also made a veiled allusion to sterilizing poor people one time, but I think the utter horror on my face made him realize he "shouldn't say this stuff" in front of lefty daughter-in-law...

[schmuls]

176. one said to me: "you mentally ill liberals cheer each time a

soldier dies".

[AlCzervik]

177. My friends mother in law said to me and a few other people

"Clinton was the first black president, you know why, huh, becasue only those people voted for him" My husband gently holding my arm telling me "she's not worth it Hon, she really isn't, i pity her" and the worst part was my friends husband "Excuse mom, she's had a half of glass of wine" So i say "Wine really brings out her true nature"

[mtnester]

178. "Your son is an abomination and should be shot"

my son is gay.....

Said to me by MORE than one conservative, in a couple of ways:

"Your son is a freak and should be gotten rid of"
"Your son is a godless heathen and God will punish him for it"
"All faggots like your son should be rounded up, put in a pen and used for target practice"

Got this from supposed God fearin males and females.

Fuck em. God WILL punish someone, it just will not be my son.

[WinkyDink]

179. "I'm still breathing."

ALMOST a joke. Still thinking about it, though.