Political Leanings Of Your Parents.....

[Ibanez]

Both are Republicans. My dad is hardcore and can't see the forest for the tree's. My mom says she votes repu blican and democrat now adays.

[Appaholic]

Mine are what you call Reagan Democrats. We live in a heavily Democratic area, but they are conservative in their ideologies.

Like Southern Dems, they vote Democratic at the local-state level, but Republican at the top.

Exactly the same scenario here as well. Dad was raised on a farm in the south, so he of course is a democrat. When in doubt, he votes Dem except on national level....Clinton ruiined the national dems for him....something about mandatory sexual harrasment training being stuffed down his and IRS's throats while at the same time the Prez was stuffing an intern's throat.....and Gore casting the tie-breaker on the SS taxable income amount....cost him thousands...

[BlueHen86]

All 4 of my grandparents were Republican.

Both of my parents are liberal Democrats.
My father claims to be a Republican, but I don't think he ever voted for one.
My mother has been elected to the New Haven CT board of Aldermen as a democrat for over 20 years.

I've always been conservative, but started moving toward the center when Bush was elected in 2000 - (I supported McCain in the 2000 primaries).

[wideright82]

Both of my parents are the definition of a Conk. I am much much more moderate than they are.

[HI54UNI]

Both sets of grandparents lived through the depression and were Roosevelt democrats. My dad was one of 13 kids and his family didn't have much growing up. He is probably the only Republican in his entire family. I'm not sure how my mom is registered. I would guess Republican or Independent. If she is a Republican it is because in the area they live the election is in the June Republican primary. The November election is meaningless, at least for local races.

My brother is a huge Libertarian and has even been a delegate to the national Libertarian convention.

[Cap'n Cat]

Very, very interesting stories by everyone. Quite a continuum of pol loyalties.

Some of you guys mentioned granparents. Hmmmm. Never really thought of mine as political people and don't know how they voted or if they even did. They all went to the school of hard knocks, though, like most grandparents of people my age - teen/young adult during the Depression, duty and injury in World War II, manning the homefront, raising kids during that, work, alcoholism later on, heart disease and death...all in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

[UNI88]

Not positive what my parent's political leanings were. My Mom died when I was 11 and I don't remember discussing politics with her. My guess is she was a moderate but I can't be sure. I think my Dad was a moderate Republican because I remember him supporting Bush over Reagan in the 1980 Caucuses. He passed away while I was in high school and I never talked to him about his political beliefs. I'm the 8th of 9 kids (3 girls & 6 boys born in 5 different states over a 20 year timespan) and like AZ's family we run the gambit from die-hard liberal to hard core conservative. My parents raised us to think for ourselves and expected us to be able to support any position we took with logic but did not try to influence our political leanings.

re: religion - My Mom came from a more religous background but my Dad wasn't very religous. Their compromise was that we had to attend church and confirmation classes (Lutheran) but once we were confirmed it was up to each child whether they would continue to attend church.

Unlike most people my age, my parents were a older and grew up during the depression (in NW Wisconsin and W Minnesota). That definitely impacted their outlook and they passed a lot of that on to me (I don't like being in debt). I don't know much about my grandparent's political affiliations. My Grandfather came up with Northfield Minnesota's "City of Cows, Colleges and Contentment" slogan back in 1914.

[CID1990]

Dad used to vote both ways until there were no more politicians who follow their own conscience instead of their party lines. Now he votes third parties out of principle.

Mom used to vote both ways, but then she had a little stroke and now she is hardcore liberal.

[ASUG8]

I think my Dad is a Dem, Mom I'm not so sure. I remember asking him who he voted for once as a kid and it was like I asked him his salary or something - he held his political views to himself. In recent years he's thrown support locally behind some Dem candidates, but we have some ambiguous conversations about the top jobs. He's 74 with a nest egg to protect but I think he voted Obama.

[ATrain]

My parents, and myself, have always classified ourselves as independents, though we typically vote Republican. The most recent example of when we didn't was when we voted for Mark Warner to be one of our senators.

[citdog]

dad....John Birch Society....mom liberal

[Wildcat Ryan]

My whole family are Reagan Conservatives, or how the left would say a family of far right radical conservative racists clinging to our guns and religion.

[wkuhillhound]

Mom: Conservative fiscally and socially liberal

Dad: Liberal

Pretty much everyone is liberal in our immediate family.

[AZGrizFan]

Dad used to vote both ways until there were no more politicians who follow their own conscience instead of their party lines. Now he votes third parties out of principle.

Mom used to vote both ways, but then she had a little stroke and now she is hardcore liberal.

You tryin' to send a subtle message there, CID?

[Cap'n Cat]

Real fucking cool, Z. Laugh at his mother's stroke.

[Col Hogan]

Very, very interesting stories by everyone. Quite a continuum of pol loyalties.

Some of you guys mentioned granparents. Hmmmm. Never really thought of mine as political people and don't know how they voted or if they even did.

None of my grandparents were citizens...I'm second generation U.S. citizen...but my paternal grandfather followed politics very closely...he died during the Watergate Hearings, which he watched and listend to daily...thought Nixon was a scum...he was pretty sharp for a 92 year old...

[bobbythekidd]

Dad used to vote both ways until there were no more politicians who follow their own conscience instead of their party lines. Now he votes third parties out of principle.

Mom used to vote both ways, but then she had a little stroke and now she is hardcore liberal.

You tryin' to send a subtle message there, CID?

Actually I think you will find that most people that have hit a huge medical/ fiscal road block in their life tend to lean more to the left. I knew a guy who was hard core Limbaugh fan. He was hit by a car and wound up in a wheelchair for life. He works for the county now, is a ADA advocate, and supports the Dems with a passion.

[Cap'n Cat]

Real fucking cool, Z. Laugh at his mother's stroke.

I was just kidding, Z.

[D1B]

dad....John Birch Society....mom liberal

Citdog, when I snuck out of your mom's trailer in the middle of the night last week, I saw a framed picture of Ronald Reagan above the shitter. You sure she's liberal?

[UNI88]

I make a big (mostly humorous) deal about Conks being afraid to abandon their parents' Conkiness for fear of being written out of the mansion-lake home-seven-Hummers-and-yacht inheritance. But, what were/are your parents' pol leanings?

Grandpa Cat, mine and D1B's father and a wonderful man, was a hardcore Cathoic Conk in his last twenty five+ years, but I can remember him being a big separation of church and state guy early on when he told me at about age 12 that he was even uncomfortable with the St. Charles, IL, school district providing bus service for us to St. Pat's school there.

Grandma Cat just voted as he did, Conk all the way, until last year, when she got sick of Conkiness due to Busch and voted for Obama, God bless her soul.

I'm assuming this was pre Orland Park because St. Charles is quite the haul from Orland or wherever you went to high school.

[JMU DJ]

None of my grandparents were citizens...I'm second generation U.S. citizen...but my paternal grandfather followed politics very closely...he died during the Watergate Hearings, which he watched and listend to daily...thought Nixon was a scum...he was pretty sharp for a 92 year old...

I also am a second generation citizen... one of my grandfathers came over as a child and trained officers in WWII... including Ben Hogan. My grandfather was an avid golfer and said it was the best times of his life "training" Ben Hogan... i.e. playing golf.

Anyway, my dad rode a tomato truck to Woodstock... believes in the conspiracy theory that Nixon was set up by the CIA and thinks his biggest failure as a parent was when he found out one of my brothers voted for Bush in 2000 and 2004.

[Mountaineer]

Grandpa has registered and voted democrat for as long as I can remember. I'm not sure of my grandma's party affiliation but I'm going to guess republican based on her conserative talking points. Should have heard the stink she put up when Boone passed liquor by the drink earlier this year. One would've guessed armageddon was peering around the corner.

My mom is a registered republican and she regrets voting for Dubs in 2004. She's fairly moderate, leaning conversative on fiscal issues and balancing that with liberal leanings for the social. I reckon I'm about the same except I'm a registered democrat.

[TwinTownBisonFan]

None of my grandparents were citizens...I'm second generation U.S. citizen...but my paternal grandfather followed politics very closely...he died during the Watergate Hearings, which he watched and listend to daily...thought Nixon was a scum...he was pretty sharp for a 92 year old...

I also am a second generation citizen... one of my grandfathers came over as a child and trained officers in WWII... including Ben Hogan. My grandfather was an avid golfer and said it was the best times of his life "training" Ben Hogan... i.e. playing golf.

Anyway, my dad rode a tomato truck to Woodstock... believes in the conspiracy theory that Nixon was set up by the CIA and thinks his biggest failure as a parent was when he found out one of my brothers voted for Bush in 2000 and 2004.

I could accept my kids being most things... just not Republicans...

[Purple For Life]

My parents are conservative, from all I can tell. I'm obviously liberal. Got out in the world away from them, on my own, and realized I just didn't see it that way.

My grandma called Obama "cute" before the election, so I think that's who she voted for, but I'm not sure. She's kinda funny.

[Ibanez]

dad....John Birch Society....mom liberal

Citdog, when I snuck out of your mom's trailer in the middle of the night last week, I saw a framed picture of Ronald Reagan above the shitter. You sure she's liberal?

That's a target.