What are you telling your Republican friends?

[struggle4progress]

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	"Wow! Your party's candidates suck even worse than normal this time!"
	5 (24%)
	Um ... I don't have any Republican friends
	10 (48%)
	"Remember to vote for Romney this Thanksgiving!"
	1 (5%)
	Um ... I don't have any friends
	0 (0%)
	"The wheels on the bus are coming off, coming off, coming off. The wheels on the bus are coming off ..."
	0 (0%)
	My Republican friends won't talk politics with me
	4 (19%)
	"You'll be able to go hunting: all the polling shows Romney will win by a landslide"
	1 (5%)
	"Hey! I just learned how Ryan's Medicare plan will help seniors play Russian roulette!"
	0 (0%)
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[Skittles]

1. the usual; to go fuck themselves

[babylonsister]

14. Hahaha!

I'd expect nothing less from you!

[tjwash]

2. my repuke coworkers have conceded that they hate President Obama more than they support romney

They haven't really anything to say after that.

[abolugi]

3. I tell them

" you know Obamas gonna win, right??"
And they sigh and say " I know..."
Not much more they can really say at this point. They dont even try to defend him anymore. They know Romney is a very weak candidate.
They realize he will lose.

[Populist_Prole]

6. Closest to the truth in the case of my right wing friends.

One is and always has been a republican party hack and tries to put up a brave face like he likes and believe in Rmoney, and I would expect no less.

The other two became republicans around the time of the 2008 elections and their hate, bigotry, and ignorance is shocking and as you would expect putting a good amount of strain on our friendships. Hell, they used to bash the hell out of both Bushes for being anti-working class but they sure do side with conservative business press ( as long as it doesn't affect them ) since president Obama was elected. Real shitheels I tell ya. They seem resigned to another Obama victory though. My telling them that life goes on and that their lives were none the worse the last 4 years doesn't seems to help. Haters gotta hate.

[Douglas Carpenter]

4. I find that aside from the truly kooky true believers - many are concerned about all the craziness

Unfortunately what used to be the lunatic fringe of the Republican Party now dominates the Republican Party. Those who for some reason still feel attached to the Grand Old Party - but are not indoctrinated with their endless cuckoo talk - there is some opportunity to do some missionary work. There is a smaller and smaller percentage of Republicans who are not full of nutty cliches. But those who still maintain some elements of reason and sense - they might be persuadable to admit that today's Republican Party is not grandpa's Republican Party.

[seabeyond]

5. the repugs i know, other than the two that voted obama last election, dont vote.

they mouth off, they watch voted obsessively, but they do not vote. so, i tell them i wont talk politics with them.

[BlueStreak]

7. About 3 weeks ago, I told the right-wingers I couldn't waste any time

arguing about BS. If they wanted to have a conversation with me, I would only respond to arguments they have written personally, and only if their arguments were more or less in this form:

I am concerned about ________.
President Obama's policy is _______________.
I disagree with the President because ______________.
I believe a better solution would be ________________.

Of course, none of those teabaggers has come back with that. They are mostly illiterate -- incapable of the most basic reasoning. But that has freed a lot of time.

Now what I am doing is sending them a picture every day showing a large crowd at the latest Obama campaign event. That's it. Just the picture. This really demoralizes them. I am planning to keep that up every day until the election. This is my revenge for 4 years of hate-filled nonsense from these aholes.

Try it. You will find it very satisfying and it really will bring them down because the cannot admit that the president is really popular and they are the ones who are the fringe element.

[Iggo]

8. I refuse to talk politics with my republican friends and family.

If they insist, I get up and walk to another room. If they follow, I make my apologies to the more sensible people and head home. It's becoming a thing. I'm kinda known for it now.

I am so done with that shit.

[Rhythm]

9. I don't really have any Repug 'friends', but to the the acquaintances i have...

...commented a time or two that it's like their party didn't even bother to 'try' this time...
They just threw out all of these impossibly-weird non-candidates as place-holders while they tread-water until 2016.

[dimbear]

10. You left out the winning entry: they're telling me their candidates suck.

Troof.

[struggle4progress]

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[davidpdx]

11. I voted that I don't have any Republican friends which is true as far as I know

I have one person on Facebook who is Libertarian who pisses me off. There are a couple people on there who I have a feeling will vote for Romney. Personally I don't give a shit if they do because I'll rub it in their face the day after. I'm going to eat my cake and shit on them at the same time.

[Freddie]

12. I try to not talk politics in person

With people I know who are Repug-leaning. Facebook is another story however.
There's 2 kinds of Repugs in my acquaintance:
1. "pro-lifers" brainwashed by their church. I will not attempt to talk politics with them.
2. One guy--a very close friend--says he's fiscally conservative and distrusts the government to do anything good. But he's appalled by the antics of the birthers and the racists that have taken over the party. Not a woman-hater either. He'd be an old-fashioned Rockefeller Republican if such a thing still existed, and I can respect that.
If he votes for Romney his wife's vote for Obama will cancel it out.

[nopedontlikeitatall]

13. I don't have Republican Friends

Just like I don't have any:

Neo-Nazi Friends
Klan Friends
TeaHadist Friends
Perky Friends
Al-Queda Friends

You really need to reevaluate who your friends are.

[standingtall]

15. I keep my circle of friends

Republican free.

[a la izquierda]

16. I've given up...

On my republican family. I don't have any republican friends...or if i do, they keep it so shrouded that I don't know their beliefs.

[trof]

17. I've given up trying to tell them anything.

It's like talking to a fence post.
They believe what they want to believe and nothing will change their minds.
I should also mention that they aren't very bright.
But they're old friends, so we just don't talk politics.