My son's friend's Mom freaked out yesterday about how he voted!

[Breeze54]

:P

I guess they got in a really heated argument when she asked how he voted.

Then she proceeded to chew him out for voting DEMOCRAT!! :P

She can.... possibly... blame me. ;)

I've been working on him for a year or so!!

She was pissed off that he didn't vote like her.... repuke!!! :P

Needless to say, he stayed at my house that night... and the next. ;)

I knew she was a repuke but I didn't know that she's extremely religious too.

Oh well. He stood up to her but talked to me about it and so I gave him more ammunition.

Morality of invading a country that didn't attack us and blowing it up, killing their people

and creating millions of refugee's and death and destruction vs Choice. I'm assuming that's her big issue.

I have his back. ;)

[crim son]

1. You made him think.

That's always a good thing, whatever his mother believes.

[Breeze54]

2. He's a smart kid, in college but parents going though a divorce

right now. I think he's growing up!

I don't want to come between him and his mom

but I know she is a busy body, from my past experience with her.

[Sebass1271]

3. congrats to you for having his back.

and thank you for being so welcoming even when he is not your son. This is called "community organizing" ;) "wink" "wink"

[Breeze54]

4. LOL... Yeah, I was 'organizing' alright!! I brought 3 teens with me to vote for Obama!!

:P

I was also recruiting teens and 20 somethings, in my town, to register to vote too!

Looks like it was a success! :D But he's almost like a son to me.

He's slept at my house, almost weekly, for years now.

She's really good to my son too but she and I don't agree politically at all.

She's very 'straight', conservative. I'm not. :P

[Arugula Latte]

5. The religiously insane are hard to argue with.

[Breeze54]

6. Seems to be true. She's very emotional about it....

My Mom was the same about choice, way back when it was new.

[Arugula Latte]

7. Did your mom ever calm down about it?

[Breeze54]

8. Hell no!! She beat the crap out of me after making me read an article about

'Abortion... The Pro's & Con's' that was published in a Catholic newspaper.
I read the article, (age 13 and clueless about sex) and then she wanted my
opinion and I said (dummy that I was) I thought women should have a choice....

Then she started swinging... and crying and yelling.... :( Went on and on about,
"I didn't raise you to think like that!" and her 7 children and well, you can imagine.

[Sebass1271]

9. ohhh wow!.. that's cruel.. poor you.. how about your other

siblings.. did they turn out to be Democrats like you?

[Breeze54]

13. All my sisters and brothers are Democrats and/or liberals.

;)

[Arugula Latte]

10. Wow ... I'm sorry.

But good for you for sticking to your own convictions.

[Breeze54]

14. Me too but I survived and

moved out of the house on my 18th birthday. ;)

She cried and was pissed off at that too.

[CoffeeCat]

11. What are the son's friends mom's major issues?

Why is she so against Obama?

Why is she so pro-Republican?

I'm asking, because in so many circumstances like this--where families are torn apart--usually
it's the mother and/or father who are upset--because of the abortion issue.

I wonder what is fueling her high-strung emotions--who are so strong that her political views
are tantamount to her son's feelings.

[Breeze54]

12. Sorry.. got kicked off the net.... She's a control freak, imho.

She even tried to interfer in my relationship with my son and I wasn't having it.

She over stepped her bounds, imho.

I don't talk to her usually, just to wave hi or say a brief hello. We used to take the boys to the beach together, years ago, when they were in grade school but one day I asked her (it may have been when Gore was running) what party she was affiliated with and she said, "Republican, of course! I think!" and smiled and I knew then that she and I were not going to see eye to eye. The summer day trips sort of stopped after that but the boys grew closer over the years anyway. I realized how religious she was when she mentioned 'gawd' a month or so ago, while we were briefly discussing the upcoming elections. I rolled my eyes (without her seeing) and politely bid her adieu. ;)