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janlyn

(735 posts)
Thu Sep 27, 2012, 03:58 PM Sep 2012

Breakthrough

Had a fellow DUer tell me I should put this comment up as an original post..so here goes


Isn't it great?? I had a breakthrough with my 79 yr old dad about a few days ago. After I showed him What Todd Akin said about rape,and what Mitt said about the 47%,he WAS pissed.

I told him that the right had been taken over by christian fundamentalists and showed him a lot of proof.I explained that it was not the old guard republican party he used to know.

My father being a die hard agnostic CAN'T stand pushy christians !!!

I haven't got a promise from him to vote Obama,but he said he definitely is NOT voting for Romney!!!

I think he was kind of relieved,he said Romney reminded him of those old duracell battery people on those commercials!! LOL

My father is an intelligent man and I just could not understand his belief in the republican party...so I asked.. and as a consequence I realized the republican party he thought he knew no longer existed.
Because I took the time to sit down and have an actual political discussion with him I realized WHY he was voting the way he was and was able to show him proof that what he saw on FOX was Bullshit!!!

OH,I also got his promise not to watch FOX anymore!!! LOL

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Breakthrough (Original Post) janlyn Sep 2012 OP
Sounds like a grand slam! immoderate Sep 2012 #1
that's great. barbtries Sep 2012 #2
Welcome to DU. bluestate10 Sep 2012 #3
A major win all the way around. lpbk2713 Sep 2012 #4
That is great! I wish my Dad would do the same. Jennicut Sep 2012 #5
Great News!!! Welcome to DU!!! gopiscrap Sep 2012 #6
Whoa! Not watch Fox? That's amazing!!!!! nt valerief Sep 2012 #7
Great work! It's never too late to try to save a loved one (and their vote!) FailureToCommunicate Sep 2012 #8
Give that man a hug malaise Sep 2012 #9
Wow, Success Story! Cha Sep 2012 #10
That's very hopeful news lunatica Sep 2012 #11
Most Excellent !!! - K & R !!! WillyT Sep 2012 #12
One at a time. Once their eyes are openned and shown with calm and facts you southernyankeebelle Sep 2012 #13
. n/t porphyrian Sep 2012 #14
Happy to give you your 50th rec. :) Indpndnt Sep 2012 #15

bluestate10

(10,942 posts)
3. Welcome to DU.
Thu Sep 27, 2012, 04:06 PM
Sep 2012

Your dad may be an intelligent man, but the promises that you had him agree to surely raised his IQ some, or at least will make him vote more sane.

Jennicut

(25,415 posts)
5. That is great! I wish my Dad would do the same.
Thu Sep 27, 2012, 04:10 PM
Sep 2012

But sadly he and my mother are too far gone. They love their Rush and Faux and are not giving them up anytime soon. Your father was reasonable enough to get through to. But my mother in law just registered as a Democrat the other day so that is a plus. She used to be more of a centrist independent. Romney pushed her over the edge.

FailureToCommunicate

(14,014 posts)
8. Great work! It's never too late to try to save a loved one (and their vote!)
Thu Sep 27, 2012, 05:07 PM
Sep 2012

Glad you got your dad to turn away from FOX. Did you happen to have any better alternatives for him for news? (DU perhaps? Or would that be too abrupt a change?)

Cha

(297,334 posts)
10. Wow, Success Story!
Thu Sep 27, 2012, 05:54 PM
Sep 2012

Thank you, janlyn!

fox is venom for the brain. I hadn't had a tv in long time when I got one in 1999 and checked out fox..it took me 2 weeks to see what they were doing to Al Gore and I stopped watching..in 2002 I cancelled all cable and haven't watched corp "news" since.

But, I do understand how insidious it's gotten from comments on the net. Good job with your Dad, janlyn!

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
11. That's very hopeful news
Thu Sep 27, 2012, 06:01 PM
Sep 2012

Old time Republicans are having it tough nowadays. Their party is dying and no one knows what to do.

 

southernyankeebelle

(11,304 posts)
13. One at a time. Once their eyes are openned and shown with calm and facts you
Thu Sep 27, 2012, 06:30 PM
Sep 2012

win. Now if you could get him on line and get him reading some of the websites he might really open his eyes.

Indpndnt

(2,391 posts)
15. Happy to give you your 50th rec. :)
Thu Sep 27, 2012, 06:41 PM
Sep 2012

Great job! I also convinced a repub that Willard is really everything he hates in a person (Thank you Rolling Stones cover story on Romney and Bain!) and he says he absolutely will NOT vote for him. He won't vote for Obama, either, but will write-in someone else. Probably Hillary Clinton. I don't know how he jumped from repub to Clinton, but I'll take it!

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