Actually mine were democrats...until Obama.

/wonder what changed

"Good Old Party"?

Cheesus: Actually mine were democrats...until Obama.

/wonder what changed

The president is in close proximity

PC LOAD LETTER: My family were New Deal Liberal Democrats and those still alive still are. They hate the Republicans even MORE now.

PC LOAD LETTER: My family were New Deal Liberal Democrats and those still alive still are. They hate the Republicans even MORE now.

Yes, yes, Good. Keep the hate alive.

Because old people are attached to a world that no longer exists and can't be brought back?

Utterly irrelevant question from a puzzled Brit - I thought GOP stood for Grand Old Party. Is 'good' an alternate explanation, or is the Mail just being clueless as usual?

Pfft. I smoke more than that.

Old peoples problem.

The All-Powerful Atheismo: Cheesus: Actually mine were democrats...until Obama.

/wonder what changed

The president is in close proximity



SOON

ThunderChild: Utterly irrelevant question from a puzzled Brit - I thought GOP stood for Grand Old Party. Is 'good' an alternate explanation, or is the Mail just being clueless as usual?

Clueless, unless there's something obscure I'm unaware of. Then I guess I'd be the clueless one.

"Ever wonder why your grandparents are such staunch Republicans?"

No. It's because they're flaming morons.

Mine liked Ike. But he was further to the left than the last five POTI...

Grandma?

Mine weren't, so no. Not sure how they would have felt about the current President because they're all gone now. Thanks for reminding me, Subby.

I think my paternal grandparents were Republicans because they were admirers of the Republican presidents from their youth, specifically, LIncoln.

/Off my lawn

Clearly they're not playing poker.

Uh, because these are people that fall for Nigerian email scams. They will believe the talking box says.

Also, they were too busy trying to get out of the great depression to develop critical thinking skills.

ThunderChild: Utterly irrelevant question from a puzzled Brit - I thought GOP stood for Grand Old Party. Is 'good' an alternate explanation, or is the Mail just being clueless as usual?

I always heard "grand old party" never heard of "good". I think this just more of the high quality reporting and fact checking that we've all come to expect from the Daily Mail.

Robert1966: Because old people are attached to a world that no longer exists never existed and can't be brought back?

ftfy

Grammatik Polizei: Mine liked Ike. But he was further to the left than the last five POTI...

Eisenhower is the most recent Republican I can actually respect. Bush I was tolerable in retrospect but did seem to lack in a certain something.

ThunderChild: Utterly irrelevant question from a puzzled Brit - I thought GOP stood for Grand Old Party. Is 'good' an alternate explanation, or is the Mail just being clueless as usual?

It's grand. I think they used good a word play due to the grand old party having a good old party.

boatbetty: Clearly they're not playing poker.

THIS. How do you end up with a pair of nines of diamonds? Either they've never played poker in their lives, or the woman with the pair of suited nines is trolling the shiat out of these dumb broads and taking those tomatoes for all their worth!

Not An Alt: boatbetty: Clearly they're not playing poker.

THIS. How do you end up with a pair of nines of diamonds? Either they've never played poker in their lives, or the woman with the pair of suited nines is trolling the shiat out of these dumb broads and taking those tomatoes for all their worth!

I'm guessing Pinochle.

Robert1966: Because old people are attached to a world that no longer exists never existed and can't be brought back?

FTFY

GoodyearPimp: Mine weren't, so no. Not sure how they would have felt about the current President because they're all gone now. Thanks for reminding me, Subby.

LoL your grandparents are dead.

Old time lesbian foreplay.

Insight into Grandpa's voting records (new window)

Persnickety: Robert1966: Because old people are attached to a world that no longer exists never existed and can't be brought back?

ftfy

Teach me not to read the thread first.

rebelyell2006: GoodyearPimp: Mine weren't, so no. Not sure how they would have felt about the current President because they're all gone now. Thanks for reminding me, Subby.

LoL your grandparents are dead.

The air... stop breathing it.

one has a pair of 9 of diamonds. and it looks like the other has a pair of 9 of hearts.

ThunderChild: Utterly irrelevant question from a puzzled Brit - I thought GOP stood for Grand Old Party. Is 'good' an alternate explanation, or is the Mail just being clueless as usual?

Grimy Old Politicians. And it was originally the Gallant Old Party.

In America normal people refer to them as fundie retards.

D_Evans45: ThunderChild: Utterly irrelevant question from a puzzled Brit - I thought GOP stood for Grand Old Party. Is 'good' an alternate explanation, or is the Mail just being clueless as usual?

Grimy Old Politicians. And it was originally the Gallant Old Party.

In America normal people refer to them as fundie retards.

The rest of us refer to those folks as Un'Merikan

Until about Nixon-Carter period, the GOP used to be the better party. Then the Southern Democrats switched parties, and the GOP became the clusterf**k it is today.

And the Northern Democrats have no real identity, so our entire country has moved so far to the right that modern Democrats probably sits to the right of Eisenhower-era Republicans.

You Farkers are slipping. ftfa: A man's world: Members of the Young Women's Republican Club of Milford, Connecticut, explore the pleasures of tobacco, poker, the strip tease and such other 'masculine' enjoyment

/slackers

My Grandparents were Democrats to the End. One grandpa was a union Carpenter, the other the head of his local grange (farmers union). Both were Baptists. Both faught in WWII.

Neither smoked.

Actually, I believe my grandparents were staunch conservatives. Mind you, they also weren't American...and the other set were Wobblies.

I blame Fox News and AM radio. It's not good for the political health of the nation to have propaganda fed to any portion of the population under the guise of news.

Connecticut Republicans are a different animal from Republicans at large. They tend to be more fun, and not a bunch of joyless religious nuts who shiat their pants in fear of social change.

And, of course, these pictures were from the 40s, back when the Republican Party was the pro-choice party and the Democratic Party was the party of the Klan.

Things have changed.

The only one whose political philosophy i would know was grandma. After she passed a decade or so ago, we found a stack of very well kept newspapers FDR's & JFK's passing & funerals...

she didn't smoke AFAIK, but she drank, bowled and played cards. Its not that she drank alot, its just that your grandparents drank little. So basically she was the cliche' south side of Milwaukee old polish woman.

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IrateShadow: I blame Fox News and AM radio. It's not good for the political health of the nation to have propaganda fed to any portion of the population under the guise of news.

Indeed. I've always thought one of the biggest areas lacking in our public education system is the study of rhetoric and propaganda. We dance around it by reading things like Huck Finn but IMHO we need about a semester or two dedicated to it. The reason most propaganda is so successful is that we don't educate our citizens to recognize it. How many people even know terms like confirmation bias or can recognize an ad hominem when they hear one? Let's spend less time discussing Romeo and Juliet and dramatic irony and more time looking at ways news reporters, government officials and editorialists spin words to sway our opinions.

USCLaw2010: Repeat (new window)

Came here to post that.

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