Can a Democrat stay married to a Conservative?

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As long as they don’t talk about politics I imagine.
Hey but some of my best ex-friends are Democrats, left wingers, gender fluids, whatever you want to call them.l
 
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Having one as a friend is really different from being married to one. Some of my current friends are Dems, but I really couldn’t tolerate being married to one. Actually, both my wife and I were once Dems. But we both dropped out when it became clear one had to support abortion to be a Dem.

But I could never marry one of today’s Dems for fear she might kill some of our children. I would never be able to get that possibility out of my mind.
 
Ridgerunner said:
But we both dropped out when it became clear one had to support abortion to be a Dem.
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I changed over since the same sex marriage debate. That really forced me to become more politically informed.
 
Ridgerunner said:
But I could never marry one of today’s Dems for fear she might kill some of our children. I would never be able to get that possibility out of my mind.
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Well, you could just ask her if she would ever have an abortion, and trust her if she said no. Worked for me.
 
goodcatholic said:
As long as they don’t talk about politics I imagine.
Hey but some of my best ex-friends are Democrats, left wingers, gender fluids, whatever you want to call them.l
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I don’t think that the spouses favoring different political parties or candidates by itself should be much of a problem in marriage. But these political differences likely stem from differences in worldview between the spouses, where there is a good chance that they also disagree on things like religion, child-rearing, sexuality within marriage, and so on. Those differences would be much harder to overcome.
 
As far as I know, mary matalin and james carville are still married.
 
Nothing wrong with the topic per se, but how is this “World News”…
 
The better question might be whether Matalin is really a modern Republican. I believe she now identifies as a libertarian.
 
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gracepoole:
Are there liberal Republicans?
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They are usually called RINO’s
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That seems like a pejorative.

We’re such a divided country now. Seems like many Americans probably fall in between the parties. My husband and I both vote the same way but that hardly means we’re always in step when it comes to big issues. Our debates can become heated but never unloving, which means there’s always an element of enjoyment to our sparring.
 
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Well, you could just ask her if she would ever have an abortion, and trust her if she said no. Worked for me.
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I have no response to this, as I learned long ago that one does not cast the slightest aspersion on the wife of another. The only time I was ever challenged to a duel was when a guy thought I had insulted his wife. He was a pretty good marksman, and that was troubling. But as the one challenged, I had the right to select the weapons.

And so I chose cattle whips and longhorns. I have a friend who likes longhorns aesthetically, and he had a small herd of them. The rules were that we would both get into a 40 acre field and drive the cattle at each other with the whips. I again told him, then, that I meant no insult to his wife.

The guy backed down. I never did know whether it was because of the last explanation or fear of the “cattle whips and longhorns” resolution. Truth is, what would really have happened is that he would have exhausted himself trying to drive the longhorns over me. Cattle in a herd will absolutely not run over a man in an open field. They’ll part like the Red Sea and go around, without fail, and longhorns are no exception to that. They just look scary. All I would do with my whip would be to crack it now and then to ensure the cattle knew I was there.

I’m not joking. Nor am I responding to your post except in fun.

But if you’re ever challenged to a duel, you now know what to do. 🙂
 
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Inisfallen said:
Well, you could just ask her if she would ever have an abortion, and trust her if she said no. Worked for me.
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If she was a ‘modern Dem’, the answer would be “it’s none of your damn business what I do with my body”
and she would likely break of the dating.
 
gracepoole said:
We’re such a divided country now. Seems like many Americans probably fall in between the parties. My husband and I both vote the same way but that hardly means we’re always in step when it comes to big issues. Our debates can become heated but never unloving, which means there’s always an element of enjoyment to our sparring.
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I don’t think so, what you might imply are the staunch conservatives are a distinct minority and don’t represent the GOP, they are the #NeverTrump crew that have been mostly feckless since the election.

The mainstream GOP is right of center rather than far right.
 
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