Are there any among us who raised repug kids?

[thereismore]

my son seems to be a good liberal kid, thank God.

[liberal N proud]

1. Every time I talk to my parents - Life long Democrats, I ask, what happened

to the rest of the family.
My brothers and sister all went to the dark side.

But I know, it was all those years of the repukes spreading the lies that they were the party who would take care of the military. They were brainwashed.

[mindfulNJ]

2. no..thank God!

My husband and I are replacing ourselves with 2 card-carrying liberal Dems :)

[tularetom]

3. Yea and no

Daughter married a wing nut. She is really stressed during the holidays because me and grandma regularly pound the shit out of him around the dinner table. Son and daughter in law pretty much apolitical but if pressed lean left.

[Democrat 4 Ever]

8. Raised three liberals that each have married a repug wing-nut. Damn,

double damn. The youngest daughter's father-in-law actually called and told her he was sorry that she has a LIBERAL for a mother. Really. The sympathy just oozing from this guy.

All three sons-in-law are former military who think Chimpy is just great. They know exactly how I feel about him and they just love to rub it in. Of course, Chucklenuts have given me plenty of stuff to rub right back so they have finally decided it is better to just lay low and not rile the beast (ME!).

The girls are all apolitical and let their husbands and I just rant and rave. Unfortunately my girls will have to get a little more age and experience on them before they wake up and realize the government is screwing them and their families seven ways to Sunday. I don't think there is any hope for the men.

Now, let's talk granddaughters. All six of them hate George Bush (well, except the youngest one - she's two weeks old today!, give her a little time). I haven't figured out yet if they really hate him (pretty sure the three oldest knows what a "moran" he is) or they like needling their fathers. I'll take anything I can get.

[July]

13. Whoa! If my f-i-l called and told me he was sorry MY mother's a liberal,

he'd never see his grandchildren again.

Unbelievable!

[EFerrari]

17. Really! How entitled are the kool aid drinkers?

That's just beyond the frickin pale.

[Catchawave]

4. 2 repugs, 1 anarchist

Sorta balances out the DNA huh ?

[Zookeeper]

5. So far, all three of mine are intelligent, caring, skeptical...

Liberals. :patriot:

[NC_Nurse]

6. Nope.

Three solid Dems! My youngest turns 18 this year so he WILL be voting. He's a member of the Young Democrats at the high school and helped do voter registration at the local street fair last year. He is into a music/liberal website...I think it's music for America or something...I'm so proud!

:D

[usrbs]

7. No, but ultra-leftist kids are no picnic either!

2 of my kids are much further left than I am, so much so that I can't talk politics with them. What's funny is that they are each in a different organization and they see each other as a sell-out. I, of course, am a laughable ineffectual Liberal in their eyes. My youngest, on the other hand, is a moderate Democrat, and thinks I'm a crazy radical. So I'm out of synch with my whole family!

[jeffrey_X]

9. Here here

It took me marrying outside my race to figure out how fucking brainwashed I was.

[AspenRose]

29. That hasn't worked for my husband....yet

x( He just finds quotes from (insert-your-favorite-conservative-shill-of-color-here) and throws that back at me.

As if that's going to make me change my mind.

Whatever. He's hopeless.

[HereSince1628]

10. One conservative, one republican.

[EFerrari]

11. No. I have two Nation reading, latte drinking, liberal voting

great big huge progressives. :)

[stanwyck]

21. We're the lucky ones

makes the homecomings that much more fun.

[EFerrari]

24. Truly, we are. I'm daily grateful because I was a very young mom

and had very limited skills.



:toast:

[thereismore]

12. Goodness, what stories!!! thanks, nt

[ThoughtCriminal]

14. Daughter married into conservative Republican family

and adopted their politics and also fundamentalist religious views. We avoid talking about anything close to politics. They've had to learn not to say anything racist when we're around, because that's one thing we don't let slide.

[EFerrari]

16. How old is she? In my 20s I probably would have been "a good

daughter" too.

Thankfully, I never had to choose between my family and my conscience. That would be a tough thing to take on.

[ThoughtCriminal]

31. Mid 20's

The way we deal with it is that we don't force a choice and thankfully either do they. I'm going to be a grandparent soon and there is no way I'm going to let politics be a wedge.

[EFerrari]

33. Congrats!

:)

[progressivebydesign]

37. I really hate when women do that!

I've seen so many women do that, as if their own beliefs are not important enough to retain when the man of the house has other ideas.

[GreenPartyVoter]

43. That sorta happened to me. Not that I let go of my ideas but that I stayed

quiet so as to not rock the boat. But then it occured to me that if my kids don't hear what I am thinking they will assume I approve of what their dad believes, and I don't want them to make that assumption. So I have been speaking my mind more, esp since we attend his family's conservative evangelical church. On the one hand they are a really loving group of people but I cringe over some of their biases. *sad*

[zbdent]

15. Not raising kids, but an interesting note

my rightie brother has had to borrow money from me throughout his life . . . and he's the one who had jobs, cars, multiple girlfriends, part ownership in a nightclub, several different houses, different motorcycles . . .

[MuseRider]

18. 2 wonderful voting Democratic sons.

Proud mom here. We all caucused for Kucinich. One, my youngest posts here on occasion.

[Nay]

19. Jesus H. Christ, noooo. My kid is a raving liberal, just like Mom.

He throws his shoe at the TV when * spouts his inanities.

[stanwyck]

20. I have twins...one a Marine, and the

other a liberal political activist at college. And the Marine is also a raving liberal, who actually has some fellow liberals among his Marine buddies.
They don't date conservatives.
(They're 22 yrs.)
So. I'm hoping that holds and I don't end up with rightwing in-laws.

[EFerrari]

25. Wow! That's amazing!

You must be a one proud parent.

:)

[Longhorn]

35. My Marine is also a liberal, as are his three sisters, including twins.

He will be 22 in May and is stationed at Iwakuni, Japan. Where's yours? :hi:

[stanwyck]

44. Hey, Longhorn

people are always amazed, aren't they, when the parents of Marines are liberal and, unbelievable, so are the Marines. My son is currently in the states, at Camp Lejeune. He's had two tours to Iraq and will be going back late this year. People keep saying "oh, that's good. It will all be over by then." Yeah, right.
When he was in boot camp (he finished in April) people said when we invaded in March, "oh, good. It will all be over by the time he's ready to go."
Now, two tours later...I'm hearing the same.
Nevermind that 100 people died yesterday and civil war seems imminent.
Time for all those who think "it's almost over" to get their butts over there to see for themselves those infamous "death throes" dead-eye Dick Cheney pompously proclaimed.
Are the Bushies ever right...about anything?

[Longhorn]

45. Hi, Stanwyck!

What really amazed me is when we told my Republican mother that our son was joining the Marines, her reaction was, "Why in the world would he want to do that?" Did she support the war? You betcha! But apparently, Other People's Kids are supposed to go fight in it.

We've been very fortunate that our son was sent to Japan even though we went 16 months without seeing him and have no idea when we'll see him again. But I'd rather he be safe over there even if we don't get to see him. He was supposed to come back to the States in August but he requested to finish his enlistment there, partly due to Iraq, so he won't be back, unless he takes another leave, until October of 2007. We can only hope that the Idiot Boy doesn't start a war with North Korea in the meantime! I'm hoping to go visit him in Japan but between my teaching schedule and the various training missions they are sent on, scheduling a trip may not be easy. But, believe me, I'm not complaining!

I'll keep your son in my thoughts and hope the time drags until he leaves and flies by once he gets there! :hug:

[seabeyond]

22. two independent thinkers that tend to embrace the democratic

postion in a lot of things. they certainly do not respect or like what is happening with the repug party today. what they will be later in life i dont know. i dont know what the parties will be later. but i would not condition kids to either party, or to blindly follow either party, but to take what is happening and look for the good for people as a whole. not individual satisfication and self interest. so i imagine they will tend towards democrats. they also arent going to be for a party that lines out how we are suppose to behave, live and a whole list of laws we must follow cause another decides for us.

independent thinkers.

[lynch03]

23. I'm 18 and I'd like to say

Aside from my parents I don't think I've heard anyone with a liberal ( or even anti-bush point of view ), all republicans, bush supporters everywhere. And I live in the suburbs of chicago... I just wanted to get that out there however relevant it is.

[EFerrari]

26. The world is a very big place. I hope you enjoy visiting

a whole bunch of it.

:)

[B Calm]

27. My son is a democrat!! His wife voted for Chuckle Nuts, but

she has now seen the light!

[TahitiNut]

28. My mother's first cousin, a liberal democrat, raised ...

... a Bush conservative, a liberal democrat, a fundy conservative, and a moderate democrat ... in that order. God only knows why ... she doesn't. (She and her hubby were good friends with Walter and Mae Reuther - that's how I met them.) Annual family reunions are fascinating, with throat-slashing political divisions chained to a tree at home and 'prohibited' while reunioning. Nonetheless, the attitudes surface in many fascinating ways.

Thank God that the liberal democrat (who married a liberal democrat and raised a liberal democrat) is my closest pal (and second cousin) of all my relatives. Born only 20 days apart (he's older), we spent summers together growing up. He taught me all about walking barefoot through the cow pasture and the joy of letting a cow flop ooze up between the toes; all about running the Gravely; all about riding the family cow (ouch!); all about skinny-dipping in the Creek; all about swinging from the ropes in the rafters of the hay barn and playing Batman; all about swiping the good apples from the neighbor's orchard; all about tree houses; all about using his uncle's gunpowder, a cast iron pipe, and stones to make a mortar; and lighting farts in the dark (beans for supper, please!). I taught him about throwing a boomerang. (Dang! We were goood!) And sex. Yes. We compared notes and did independent research. In a family where parents would rather have their tongues cut out than discuss sex with the children, we formed a research team, taking joy in the advent of Playboy Magazine and Kinsey's research.

[misternormal]

30. 3 libs... 1Moderate... and one conservative...

Just goes to show, ya can't win 'em all.

But at least they are all up for a good fight.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

32. Two daughters; one dem, one pub.

But they both have good hearts and I am proud of both of them.

[Sammy Pepys]

34. Is it so hard for people to get over politics?

There are things more important.

My immediate family and my in-laws all have sharp political differences with my wife and myself.

Guess what? It doesn't bother anyone. Sorry, but I think it's exceptionally rude and borders on complete immaturity to get on family members who might believe differently than you, especially when it comes to politics, and then it ends up that you can't talk to them about anything at all, and you end up forcing other family members to choose.

In my extended family, we make our good natured shots and generally leave it at that. But, no one is shy about speaking up about things because they know everyone else is mature and couteous enough to handle it. Though it's been rare, minds have actually been changed over Thanksgiving dinner. I have a feeling laying into someone probably doesn't endear many people.

[progressivebydesign]

36. All stepkids are liberal.. HOWEVER..

one of them got enamoured with Bill O'Lielly for a year or so, and he came back from the dark side after seeing F-9/11 and realizing we were right. My entire family on my side is liberal. My stepdaughters are growing up to be little activists just as I was...

[RebelOne]

38. Both my daughter and son are Democrats.

My son and his wife are very liberal. But my daughter is not as liberal as I would like for her to be. She believes the Iraqi war is justified. And her husband, who says he is a Democrat, voted for Bush. But he is sorry now that he did.

[Blue Diadem]

39. 2 liberals & 1 repug. The oldest married into a nutty republican

family. His Mil tells him and his wife that they have to vote republican or she will disown them. I've asked him how she would know..he insists she'll find out somehow and he just doesn't want the grief.

[Coexist]

40. so far - two liberal teenagers

and one apolitical six-year old.

They like being liberal because all the good comedians and musical giants are on "their" side. We live in a very red suburb -so they can hold it over their friends heads.

[DemExpat]

41. 2 Dem voting young adults here.

:kick:

DemEx

[GreenPartyVoter]

42. Mine are only 8 and 6 and are rather apolitical but they do think about

helping people and worry about those who are needy, so I'm hopefully laying a good foundation. Trouble is their dad is a conservative evangelical and he is one of those anti-welfare types (never mind how many times it's saved our butts :eyes:) so I will have to be careful that they don't absorb that from him.

[rucky]

46. The Keatons did: