how many conservative friends do you have?

[pres2032]

[JohnKleeb]

1. Well

I don't know how many exactly. I got some, and some of them really aren't friends anymore, not because of politics but because I don't appreciate them talking bad about me or my parents behind my back.

[NNadir]

2. What, no zero option?

[pres2032]

5. oops, thought i did put it in

that will be fixed now

[Left Is Write]

3. I would guess all of my Idaho friends are conservatives.

Most of my Minnesota friends (and my siblings) are not.

[loudestchick]

4. lots of acquaintances--none I'd call friends, at this point.

[codegreen]

6. zero

[Sympleesmshn]

7. I go to a private high school

there are about 30 of us (inculding the teachers). Everyone else is conservative....

[serryjw]

8. Past friends or PRESENT?

I don't care what you call yourself but I have disenfranchised EVERYONE whom voted for Bushit.

[Mz Pip]

9. None

I've got conservative relatives and that is bad enough. I'm stuck with them.

I choose my friends and they are people who share my interests and my values. They are liberals. We may not agree on everything but we all agree that Bush is bad for the US and for the world.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[BornaDem]

10. My best friend used to be very liberal...

even more than I am. About 5 yrs. ago, her husband tried to commit suicide and he ended up being committed and treated for alcoholism. Once he had been through rehab, they started going to church and both of them got more and more conservative until she is a different person. I still love her and we are still friends, but we are not close like we once were.

[readmylips]

11. I have no idea what 'conservative' means....

My family and friends all voted for bush because of the 'born again' religious cult. I don't exactly know what makes them conservative other than their republican political affiliation. They're all nature lovers and outdoors people. Many raised on welfare and still on welfare. Most don't have a college education, yet they have all succeeded in business. In most cases, they worked at jobs in which they were the only white people and they were promoted over dark skin people. They know it and brag about it.

If the republican motto is to pull themselves on your own bootstrap, I didn't see any self bootstrap pulling within this family. They stepped on a lot of darkies for them to get ahead.

[flamingyouth]

12. I used to have one, but now I have none

[Lone_Wolf_Moderate]

13. Five. Moderate on social issues, but otherwise basically conservative.

Friendship trumps politics, though.

[Melynn]

14. I have conservative co-workers

and members of my family who are conservative. I don't have any friends who are conservative.

I think that you can get along with a conservative as long as you don't discuss politics with them.

Just watch your wallet around them, those people can't be trusted with money.

[realisticphish]

15. politics are not number one for me

i become friends, and THEN discuss politics, not the other way around


:hippie: The Incorrigible Democrat

[donheld]

16. I have 1 conservative co-worker i'd concider a friend

that's it.

[DemBones DemBones]

17. I'd guess about ten of the people I'm friendly with in my

social circles, most of them older than I am, voted for Bush** at least in 2000. Yet many of them give money to charity and do volunteer work for charity as well, and are not narrow-minded, either. I know at least one was torn about voting this year because she's opposed to the war but she wasn't comfortable voting for a pro-choice candidate, either. She is a really good Catholic Christian, always doing things to help others. I don't know how she resolved her dilemma, though I'm sure she'd tell me if I asked.

The people I'm closest to are liberals and we all find it difficult to be a minority among the Bush** voters. One of the things I'm angry at the Bushies about is the tension they've created between liberals and conservatives. It's especially painful to see people that you know are good people, intelligent people, be caught up in believing lies. It's deja vu, the Sixties all over again except back then I lived in a more liberal area.

[tjwmason]

18. Loads of them.

In England the debate seems to be less full of bile (as in we have no Bush, and reasonable left-wingers and right-wingers can join in hating Blair). Even at election counts I have attended you see the Labour Party activist chatting to the Conservative Party ones, with only the Liberal Democrats sitting looking aloof.

I even enjoy talking politics with friends of different opinions, as long as there is a basis of respect and decency I have had no problem.

[huellewig]

19. None..

I can only think of two people in the last two years that claimed to be a republican. One was a young kid a bar. The other was a ex-military guy that was disturbed by the fact I didn't have a job. I have a hunch that at the time I had more money in the bank then he did. He had a big truck and a mortgage and I had a bicycle. He thought my unemployment should be corrected by a few years in the military. This was after the invasion but before things went downhill. I think I did the right thing.

Republican is a dirty word in this city. You might vote republican but you don't admit it.

Divided and not United.. Fucking sad really..

[LeftyMom]

20. One

My closest friend is somewhat conservative. She has fertility issues, so she struggles with the choice issue because it hurts her to see others choosing not to have babies when she can't. Of course I don't agree but I certainly understand why she feels that way.

She tends to become very black and white when thinking about situations in the abstract (abortion is bad, the war on terra is good) but becomes much more reasoned in the specific (Suzy really isn't in a position to have a baby, Johnny shouldn't have to leave his family and go to war.)

I'm not going to abandon a friendship that's lasted since I was seven because we don't always agree about politics. We're still pretty young, our politics will probably change and mature more as we grow. Especially if she becomes a mother, that changes a person a lot. Either way, we'll still be friends. :)

Edit: Oh, and my boss is conservative, and I'd consider her a friend. She's pretty cool. :)

[GalleryGod]

21. One and he's evolved in to one-otherwise

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