Comments on: When Choosing a Candidate Means Losing a Friend

By: Jamie Inman

Jamie Inman — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 13:18:58 +0000

I am late to join this discussion as I just found you on twitter, was moved by your tribute to Kitty, and looked you up. I am a psychotherapist, and heard of a colleague whose patient had a meltdown after the therapist’s offhand mention of listening to Rush Limbaugh. Nothing the therapist said re: listening to both sides of issues, embracing our differences, it’s a free country, etc., assuaged the patient’s devastation at being “tricked and betrayed”.
Of course, the dynamics in therapeutic relationships are special, redolent with transference, which requires that therapists measure our word. Still, I can’t help but wonder something similar isn’t taking place when friends trash friendships over the vote.

By: Incognito

Incognito — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 21:14:02 +0000

Speaking from the other side of the fence.. democrats were as guilty, if not more, of shunning McCain voters than vice versa. But being the bigots we are characterized we have more reason to (sarcasm). The tolerant/inclusive/progressive Democratic voters (more sarcasm) have none.

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 23:59:40 +0000

I know where the writer is coming from. I’m an academic and to them the idea that someone would not be liberal is just so foreign as to be on another planet. Several members of my graduate committee, ie, they had strong influence over my career, were raving moonbat liberals. That’s okay. I never talked about politics at work, and if they ask, say ‘of course i voted for your candidate X’. For the last two elections my wife and i have canceled each other out voting wise (not so this time), and it didn’t really affect our relationship. To me, i act like a democrat but vote republican, and she acts like a republican and votes democrat. I should be surprised that some people are so shallow as to equate personal beliefs with friendship, but I’m not.

By: Chuck Pelto

Chuck Pelto — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 10:11:14 +0000

TO: Susan
RE: Der Gestapo Blogs

I bet in their gestapo run blogs and forum nobody from the republican side is even allowed. — Susan

I put a hash-mark on the camouflage band of my helmet for every jump I made, when I was in the Army.

If I put such a mark on my monitor for every one of their blogs, and those of atheists, I’ve been kicked/banned/killed on, I’d need to by a bigger display monitor. Like 38″….

But this how the world is, the leftist idiots hate you but they come back to you all the time. — Susan

Everybody ought to have a hobby. Besides, they make for good, ‘mind-clearing’ entertainment between bouts of debugging code…..which is what I’ve been doing over the last 24 hours.

Regards,

Chuck(le)
[Like punning, programming is a play on words.]

By: Ang

Ang — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:12:28 +0000

If you find that friends leave you because of who you vote for. They are not your friends. Period. My friends and I have agreed to disagree. And those who go?…go..you were never a friend in the first place.

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 20:09:24 +0000

Yep, Been there. I lost friends who were very close, “bestest-buddy” kind of friends, over politics. It hurt. One I lost basically because I said I liked listening to Rush Limbaugh and agreed with him a lot of the time.

The other I’m not sure why, but he seemed offended that I thought the War on Terror was necessary and was being done for the right reasons. He never told me why, just sent an E-mail saying he wouldn’t communicate with me any more, and the reason was “obvious to a person with a modicum of intelligence” So he ended our friendship with an insult. I miss the good times we had before that happened, and I find myself keeping my views to myself, or only sharing them with people of like mind. I’m not sure if that’s a good thing. Perhaps this is the reason these subjects have been called unfit for polite company: Politics, Money, Sex, Religion.

By: Hugh Thomson

Hugh Thomson — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 19:06:49 +0000

Dear Ms. Catalano,

It is entirely appropriate that friends should separate over such basic issues as freedom, property rights, gun ownership, national security and taxes. These policies affect, profoundly affect, our lives, and more importantly, the lives of our children.

I do not take personal umbrage at your choice. I am not personally offended. My reaaction would be to disassociate myself from you because I despise the choices you have made for me and my family. It is unfortunate that your choice cannot bind only you. It must bind me as well. That, and not personal umberage, breaks the bond.

Fairwell Michelle, we hardly knew ye.

By: susan

susan — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 18:04:30 +0000

chuck pelto, thanks for reading between the lines of the idiot pest stupid75.

Bringing up rev wright made him pronto scream at RAAAAACISM. And we all know that this is the symptom of the “no other subject disease”.

Other than that, I specifically searched for a conservative blog/forum because I stand there politically even if i am european and I can only add my 2 cents from abroad. I frankly cannot understand why the usual pests join the subject to bring nothing but hatred and ridicule. I bet in their gestapo run blogs and forum nobody from the republican side is even allowed.

But this how the world is, the leftist idiots hate you but they come back to you all the time.

By: RockyMtnHigh

RockyMtnHigh — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:03:29 +0000

My best friend is a farmer, a rancher and lives in a rural part of the Rockies. I was raised in the same social climate yet I live hundreds of miles away and own my own business. He voted for Obama and I did not. His reasons are his own and mine are my own.

He drinks his coffee black and I like cream and sugar.

He is my friend. I love him as if he were my brother and that will always remain.

By: Ready to move on

Ready to move on — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 14:19:30 +0000

Obama won. McCain lost. Feel for tose who supported McCain. He is a great American and I believe he would have been a good president. Now let’s move forward together. There is a lot of work to be done to rebuild this country. America is the greatest country in the world because we find a way to come together.

I know that some of you will point out the error in my message but I know severl of you will agree with me even if you disagree with my politics.