What % of your family (parents, siblings, spouse, children) is right-wing?

[Onlooker]

[devoedem]

1. Only my rich uncle.

He is the only one who can afford to be a republican.

[LuLu550]

3. Daddy was a commie...

actually, I think he told people that to get a rise out of them. His sister an her hubbie and kids all left of center, Mom a liberal Dem, he sisters liberal, he brother a Repug, my three brothers moderate to liberal.
My ex-husband was a right wing nut. My two kids (college age and high school) have been indoctrinated by Mom to be little pinkos.
:bounce:

[ikojo]

2. All of my siblings (four of them)

are pugs...I don't know how right-wing they are but they will pull the lever for Bush. Not a one of them is wealthy and all work for a living and depend upon their paycheck to survive. All are property owners and have children (I neither own property nor have any children.)

My brother was in the military for 21 years so he believes Bush's lies about supporting the military and having served in the National Guard. He hates Clinton.

My sisters are all anti choice so even if they don't support Bush's war on the working class they support the pugs' war on the reproductive rights of women.

One of my nieces recently joined the Marines so I am sure her parents will vote pug (they would have done so anyway but the military thing solidifies that vote)

Yes, my mom is surprised that she birthed all these republicans.

I am the lone radical liberal. We don't discuss politics when we get together that's for sure. If the topic comes up I will excuse myself and go do something else.

My mom, with a lot of help and prodding from your's truly, is a hard core Dem. She cannot understand why so many of her working class kids became pugs. She told me she will vote ABB come November. She doesn't like what he's done to the country and being 68, she is concerned about Medicare. I regularly send my mom Paul Krugman and Bob Herbert editorials from the New York Times.

[Cuban_Liberal]

4. Maybe 40%

The RW-ers are confined to my maternal (Cuban) side, although even some of them are moderate to liberal, like my mom. :)

[liberalitch]

5. My brother...

mixes his votes.... but he's not a crazy freak repug.... he said he may vote repug in the local/state stuff this time but he won't vote for bush again.

[Burma Jones]

6. One Ig'nant Brother

My Mom votes for whomever she thinks she would want to have lunch with. However, Wife, Father and three other brothers vote pretty much Dem.

[NashVegas]

8. I've Got One of Those

He gets it from his wife, who's even worse. Good people who are, unfortunately, Rush-bots.

[Bertha Venation]

7. my father and stepmother are FECs - on edit: my brother-in-law

(fundamentalist evangelical Christians) and that informs their politics on social issues like equality for GLBT Americans and abortion -- but that's it. They despise * just like the rest of us and will help to vote him out.

My brother-in-law, whom I love dearly, is also an FEC but he is a right-winger politically, too. That doesn't keep me from loving him, embracing him as my brother, accepting him fully. I'm sure many other DUers w/ RW relatives feel the same.

[Cuban_Liberal]

10. I agree, Kim.

I love my RW family members, because they're family. They, in turn, love me for the same reason. We disagree bitterly (at times) on political matters, but there is not a sliver of doubt in my mind that they would fight a buzzsaw for me on any personal level. 'Family' is not just a word to Cuban-Americans --- it's a bedrock principle around which ALL else revolves. :)

[Bertha Venation]

11. Tony, a question about your family.

Do they accept you & Paddy for who you are? I mean, my father (such as he is) does not. He sees me as a single woman. I think he's finally accepted that I will never marry a man, but he refuses to acknowledge that I am married. He won't even address a holiday card or package to both of us. Hell, he refuses even to acknowledge that I am a lesbian. I don't know how he deals with the fact in his own mind, but I'm sure it involves deep denial, rationalization, and pretzel logic.

Your family?

[Cuban_Liberal]

12. Most of them do, yes.

Some of the older ones don't 'accept it', and some are still in outright denial about it, but about 75% of the aunts and uncles do accept it, and virtually all of my cousins do.

[Lorien]

13. My mom is the same

I'm sure she voted for * in 2000, but I'm working on her and I think she'll vote ABB this time around. I used to avoid speaking about politics around her, but this coming election is so important that I WILL NOT hold my tongue any longer!!

[Tracer]

9. Only One.

My brother-in-law. And I don't think that he's really right-wing, but is pretty stuborn and conservative.

He thinks Bill O'Reilly is "funny".

However, everyone else in the family is liberal and proud of it! He loses every argument at the dinner table. I expect him to see the light any time now.

(Edited to add that he gets the most "basic" of basic cable Ñ which comes with one "news" show. Guess which one.)

[BlackVelvetElvis]

14. My sister married a rich man and became a Republican

We sometimes get into arguements. Particularly about prayer in schools. I tell her that teachers have enough to do without teaching religion-which is the parent's responsibility! I then asked her which god should they advocate in school? She told me that children of other religions shouldn't go to that school if they don't agree with it because, "We were here first". I felt like I was beating my head against the wall.

My late father and my mother are hard core, pro labor dems. I love it when mom calls Bush an asshole.

[Another Bill C.]

15. My family was 90% Democrats

until the abortion issue came up. Now they'd vote for dracula if he was anti-abortion.

[Padraig18]

16. 0%

The furthest right member of my family is my great-uncle, Liam, and he is somewhere to the left of Durbin.

[imax2268]

17. My uncle

says that the money we make from investments and businesses that we should covert to republicans...

but he got laid off and they might just lose their house...unless we decided to make them a loan...

the man has a HUGE house and sent his kids to high-end colleges and now he can't pay for it...

so of course he's looking to us now for a bail-out...

go figure...

[screwfacecapone]

18. my family

we're all black, so we're pretty much commie pinko hippie tree hugging liberals by default, lol.

[neebob]

19. Mom and dad (deceased)

so I have to say 25 percent. My brother's views are closer to mine than my parents'. I got into it with my mom again on Friday night. It started when she asked me what was going on and I shared the story about my son and the $8 toenail fungus pills. I wasn't up to my usual level of mental pre-screening of every comment and said the medical establishment is evil. And my mom felt compelled to inform me that all doctors are not bad people and capitalism is better than communism and America is still the best country in the world. Seriously, she took that big an intuitive leap. And I was like yeah, okay, I'll go there ... blah blah blah. And on it went.

At one point, she said a certain Democratic presidential candidate is a dead man walking, because if it looks like he's going to win, Hillary the evil murderess will get herself drafted as V.P. and have him assassinated. Yes, she is that evil and has that much power.

I'm still exhausted and icked-out from this conversation.

[AlFrankenFan]

20. I'd say 60-80%

This includes:
Father, step-mother, step-father, grandmother (father's mother), step-grandparents (step-mother's parents), step-aunts (3 on step-mother's side), step-uncles (3 on step-mother's side), aunts (2 - father's side), uncle (father's side), and I'm sure there are many distant relatives that are also right-wingers on my father and step-mother's side.

Oy vey.

[Spirochete]

21. I have a freeper uncle

who hates me, so I never have to talk to him. My mother was a staunch Democrat. My father never seemed to have a preference. My stepfather is a democrat. (Hates Bush like hell). One of my sisters is a schoolteacher, and a Democrat (hates Bush worse than hell).
My other sister is a Jehovah's Witness, and doesn't do politics (hates hell like Bush).

On Edit: getting better - only made one mistake this time.

[Goldberg]

22. About 15%.

My uncle and his family are all Republicans...and my great-uncle are. That's all I know for sure.

[NightTrain]

23. My family is either white bread or white trash. But both sides are...

...conservative as hell.

[populistmom]

24. Well, if you just look at parents, siblings, spouse, and children...

We're all lefties. My husband and I are very compatible politically. My father is very left of center and was active within the Democratic party as a young man. My mother is more easily malleable by the media, but is a solid moderate Democrat. My daughter is 12 and rather leftist and quite informed for her age. My boys are still too little to understand much. They just know W is "bad".

BUT (big but), when you look at other relatives, it different. My dad's parents (just my grandma's still alive) were Dixiecrats who turned Republican in the 70's, but then re-embraced the party and voted for Clinton both times. My mom's parents are in their late 70's (and live in Nebraska), big time Freeper types, divorced are married to even worse Freepers (grandpa's wife is a Mormon and grandma's husband is the reining elderly King of assholes). Most of my aunts and uncles are apolitical to slightly right leaning. My husband's sister is apolitical and her husband is a union dude (who owes his really good salary to being in a union) who is confusing. I've heard him on loud mouth rants sounding racist or like he took his words strait from Hannity or Rush, but he also seems to realize Bush isn't doing a good job. Hard to figure out anyway, but definitely not as informed as he'd like to think he is.

[methinks2]

25. My parents, all but one sibling,

my ex, one of my kids, are all conservatives. Most are republicans, one is a Libertarian. And I live in Central Florida aka Bushland. I'm surrounded, sometimes it's so depressing. Is there a nice place to live, other than the really cold places, that isn't 80% conservatives. Good Grief! Every time I start to think that Canada's looks pretty good, they get some kind of blizzard weather. Lake effect etc . . .
How about the southwest? Does anyone know what parts of the southwest are more democratic?

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

26. One Opus Dei among 10 reasonable people

:cry:

[bratcatinok]

27. I'm the only

liberal in my family. Both of my parents were republican while tbey were alive and my sister is a freeper.

She and I will discuss politics on occasion but normally we avoid talking about politics since it always leads to a disagreement. Since she and I are the only family each other has (other than my son who's apolitical) we don't let politics get in the way of our relationship.

[MrSlayer]

28. 25%

My father and brother are right wingers. Too bad really, I had them convinced to vote for Clark until he dropped out, now they are back on Bush.

[bigwillq]

29. I have a few aunts and uncles

who are from the right-side

[corporatewhore]

30. well my cousins went to bob jones U well really not my cousins but

my great aunts children second cousins? one of my great aunt is a missionary and her children are crazy fundies