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Can a Democrat Love A Republican?
Can a Republican and a Democrat live happily ever after?
by Caroline Tiger
Sure, I was concerned that he’d voted for a man who seemed dead set on taking away women’s hard-won reproductive rights, killing off our nation’s youth, and destroying the environment. But by age 30, I’d dated enough of my own political kind to know that their compassion for the teeming masses doesn’t guarantee compassion for their loved ones.
The sensitive activist type I dreamed of as a college student had turned out to be, for the most part, a needy fraud with a victim complex. What’s preferable—someone who is a complete ass or someone who votes for a complete ass? After a solid decade of dating within my party, I was open to something new.
And, in the beginning, our political differences played out in jokey, passive-aggressive ways. I sent him a silly “miss you” card that had a picture of a fuzzy kitten. He stuck it on his filing cabinet next to a “Stop Hillary Now!” bumper sticker.
When I visited, it became a ritual for me to cover the Hillary sticker with the kitten. When I wasn’t looking, he’d move the kitten back. And so on. Hillary. Kitten. Hillary. Kitten. Claws out. Kinda.
When the Washington Times was delivered in the morning, I’d sit on the couch and point out egregious conservatisms, like how they used the word “illegals” instead of “immigrants.” When he turned the TV to Fox News, I’d make fun of the way the producers put “global warming” in quotes like they were questioning its very existence.
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1 karri // Mar 2, 2008 at 11:33 pm
i guess i’m more republican, but he is more democrat, but i stand corrected b/c he doesn’t like to associate w/ either party. its more a thing about humananity
2 karri // Mar 2, 2008 at 11:30 pm
my situation is the opposite. while i’m more a moderate, my b/f is an extreme liberal–i love him, but it drives me nuts! i want to make it work, but i don’t know how without these things getting in the way…any suggestions??
3 Politically Incorrect // Feb 25, 2008 at 1:04 pm
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4 Sue // Feb 1, 2008 at 10:44 am
My husband and I have been married 42 years–he, a registered Republican and me, a registered Democrat. The reason we have different parties represented is to vote for the “Person” representing that party, NOT THE “PARTY”. At least that is what we were taught. Respect for one another and a vote for the “person”. Loyalty and respect for the “President” of our Country no matter who they are; “Patriotism”, not “Partisonship”. Clearly I am older than you, but I do want to make a comment about pro-choice. Where would you be if a choice was deliberately made when you were conceived?
5 Larry // Jan 15, 2008 at 6:14 pm
Sarah, you couldn’t be more right. Almost all my friends on the left are not capable of having a calm discourse over political differences. They get red-faced almost immediately when I tell them that I mostly agree with the right. And I have found that they get even angrier when I stay focused and explain my positions without the theatrics! It’s almost comical.
I am lucky to have found and married a woman who isn’t glued to any kind of ideology. She has, and has taught me, the ability to see the frauds on both sides of the argument.
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