Who is the most infuriating Conservative nutjob you've ever had the displeasure to meet?

4 years ago, when I was still fresh out of college, my family was invited over to a friends' house--and, we were told, a couple who were new to our mutual synagogue. Before going, we were all told by my mom "these two are fairly Republican, so don't bring up anything controversial." This was in 2004, so naturally, tempers were running a little high. However, in the spirit of civility, we all agreed.

Everything was going fine--we were all talking about movies, hobbies, jobs, etc.--until my Dad (perhaps unthinkingly) mentioned he would be heading to San Francisco for a business trip. An approximate transcript is as follows:

Conservative Nutjob: "Oh, man, I feel so sorry for you."

My Dad: "Why?"

CN: "That city is just SO liberal. God, I wouldn't set foot in it if you paid me."

D: "Actually, I think it's quite a beautiful area..."

CN: "Sure, if you like gays running around sodomizing each other in public."

And that was the evening right there. The garbage didn't stop flowing out of this Moran--liberals were destroying the country from the inside, ditto immigrants, Bush was brilliant, Kerry was un-American, Israel had to be protected at all cost, Iraq had to be bombed back to the stone-age, and if you didn't think so, you weren't a good Jew. We all tried to bite our tongues, but one by one, we were all dragged into the shouting match, even my 85-year-old grandmother. And the guy never apologized for getting us all riled up--he seemed to genuinely enjoy being nasty.

When the evening ended, we were all in a lousy temper. Our hosts privately apologized and told us the couple would never be invited to their house again.

That's my story. What's yours?

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Tom

Talk about scary. This was when she was applying makeup with a putty knife.

... swallows the whole bush-cheney-mccain bullshit story hook, line and sinker ... spent a few years in the Army, is all about 'killin towel heads', home-schools his kids, Bible-quotin', Jesus-name-droppin', has 2 teenagers organizing anti-abortion 'rallies', can't fathom "a black dude" as President, overall IQ of about 80, I'd guess ... and the most hilarious - and maddening at the same time - part is: he's HISPANIC.

WTF??? :shrug:

I worry about my children who share the same genetics. So far they seem to be immune.

I had a friend send him a bumper sticker "Bush's Third Term / McCain" and the idiot actually put it on his bumper. I have no direct communication with this aberration for the better part of a year.

And do you know how to adjust the feed on a Xerox machine to take toilet paper?

My aunt and uncle home-schooled him, then sent him to private school later when they didn't have as much time. He was into the whole fundie, "Left Behind" stuff. He wrote conservative pieces for his college paper and now he writes for some neocon online rag. The day after the shootings at Virginia Tech, he wrote a piece calling the men there "cowards" for not taking down Cho Seung-Hui, despite knowing I'd graduated from Tech the year before. He's not on speaking terms with my part of the family anymore.

he is one of those love america or leave it kind of guys,he's also a huge warmonger that wants to put a glass crater on nay country who doesn't respect us.

I would tell you a conversation,but we don't even talk anymore,are family doesn't even invite him to holidays anymore since he's such a nuisance.

Same as the jerk in the OP this guy insists on bringing up politics even though he knows we are completely opposed to most of his "beliefs." He got so bad in 2004 I would hang up on him when he called and my husband stopped spending time with this friend of 25 years.

And he is such a failure as a conservative. Served 20 years in the Navy. Used his benefits when he got out to get his BS, then used a fund that paid for education degrees if the graduates agreed to teach in troubled schools for a few years - got a Masters in Education. He could not last two grade periods before he antagonized his students so much one threatened to kill him and they vandalized his car. He got a job as a tech for a company that manufactured military radios and computers. Lost that when the company lost their contract because of some fishy deals. Used unemployment benefits to go back for a second Masters. Still does not have a regular job.

But he is convinced that McCain is the better choice and that Bush has done no wrong. I can only hope the money he expects to inherit from his father is all lost in the economic crash and he has to rely on the social programs he despises.

and yes, they were really like that in person, too.

that hit the Pentagon, I thought that it wasn't a total loss.

No, seriously. I really did.

I hated it when that woman was on Washington Journal on C-SPAN in the mornings. I used to watch that show every single morning, EXCEPT when she was on.

He and I went to two proms together and were hot and heavy until graduation, when we went our separate ways.

Last year, while I was hospitalized, he found out about it and called me. (He lives far away from me.) We got into the habit of talking every day and it was nice. His alcoholic wife had died, his twice-divorced daughter had moved back home with her three kids, and he hated the woman his son had married.

We started talking politics, and I found out he thought Rush Limbaugh was the bee's knees. Now, this guy's grandfather had been the County Chairman of the Democratic Party when we were kids, but, no, my old boyfriend had become an ultra-right-wing Rethug.

One day, he said something about Al Gore, and I said I thought he'd have been a President who, at least, wouldn't have put us into a homicidal invasion of Iraq.

His response was, "Leave it to you liberals. You blame everything on the 2000 election."

I said, "Well, we all have our opinions."

He said, his voice rising, "Maybe we better not talk politics right now."

I said, "Fine," and I meant it.

He made another crack about Democrats, and I said, "I thought we weren't going to talk politics any more."

In a big huff, he said, "I have to go now," and the fucker hung up on me!

It takes a big man to hang up on a woman who's in a hospital, I thought.

So, he called again the next day, never apologized, just started chatting away.

I chatted with him, but always cut the conversation short. "Oh, my doctor just walked in." "The nurse needs to do something."

When I was getting ready to go home, I gave him my phone number.

The phone number that, long ago, had been disconnected.

I had to have the 'demons' driven out of me.


I'm 44. These Whack Jobs have been around for quite awile.

came running in my classroom on the morning of 9/11 screaming at me, "This is because of your guy! It's all his fault! If he hadn't cut military funding this would never have happened!" She has consistently proved to be unstable when it comes to politcal reality. She was standing in one of the empty classrooms on the morning The Shrub was sworn in for the second time jumping up and down squealing with delight. She and one of the very few Repugs on our staff were mocking Hillary Clinton while she was still in the running. I walked by and said, "At least she won't have us in a hundred year war." Wingnut replied, "One hundred? That's not long enough."

we used to go to a particular store and this guy started going over how many raquis he'd like to kill

So I asked him if he was in uniform.

No... I work for Caqui...

Well then, you are a merc... you pray to the mighty dollar, you are lower than whale shit

I defend the country (aggrieved tone)

No, you defend the dollar, you should be lined against the wall and shot!

Now the three vets in the room were chuckling, smiling et al. I mean I am just 5.1 and at the time quite out of shape...

So this guy goes, so what have you done?

Sent a husband to THIS WAR under the UCMJ and served as well in other conflicts... but with HONOR, something you'll never, ever know the meaning off.

He picked up his marbles and left.

Oh and admitting to be a merc in a navy town is quite nuts

having a few beers when a guy I know, and can't stand showed up, drunk. I knew he's a racist asshole, and could hear him running his mouth, but to avoid making a scene around all my friends, I just went in a back room and was playing games against a like-minded friend, even though I could still hear him ranting about how screwed this country was if we elected a democratic president (I can only imagine how he feels that a black man got the nomination!). He then went on an rant about how women shouldn't be allowed in the lodge we were in. I still managed to bite my tongue, but when he went of on how Democrats waste money, and then pointed out The bridge to nowhere" as his example, I fucking lost it. Prior to that, I figured that anyone who didn't already agree with him could see through his bullshit, but this had potential to actually do damage if these people didn't realize Ted Stevens was a republican, and a very corrupt one at that. So I broke my silence, and told him he was flat out wrong, the senator he was talking about was a corrupt republican named Ted Stevens, who happened to be the longest serving active senator. I also threw in that the governor of the state was a woman named Sarah Palin who was also a republican just to show I knew my shit, though at that point I knew little else about her, but still, it's amazing what you learn hanging out at DU! I argued till I was blue in the face, used names and facts, but he just denied them and insisted I was wrong, that the senator in question was a Democrat. Hopefully everybody realized he was drunk and the fact that I was able to use names which he couldn't convinced them he was a moran. The next time I was there, a woman who was running for elected office in the organization approached me, and said she heard there was a problem the previous night. I was worried until she told me she was a lifelong Democrat and had worked for several elected officials over the years. Then all was good. Still, it pisses me off when a blowhard like that who has no clue what he's talking about speaks so confidently, because many around him who don't know any better will buy that shit. To this day I can't hear about Ted Stevens or the bridge with out thinking about him and getting really pissed. Sooner or later, our paths will cross again. He's big enough to kick my ass, and if he's drunk again may do it, because I will have to remind him of just how wrong he was.

That was easy!

and on their fridge were extremely hateful messages like one taken straight from a "God hates fags" sign showing a crossed-out picture of 2 male stick figures doing it. Another said (with a Confederate flag background) "W.W.B.D?" (guess what THAT stood for :scared:) Others included "Don't let evilutionists make a monkey out of you" and "Kerry for president of France." I was seriously afraid of getting lynched if they found out what my political ideology was.

I don't mention him much, but I have a third cousin. I wish he was removed many times over, but he is not. He is in his 60s. He still thinks Hitler was a great man. He loves anything involving the KKK. He is an embarrassment to those of us in the family who do not want to hear his bullshit.

If he sees any of us in the grocery store, he LOUDLY comes over and starts with his freaking diatribe.

He trained his disabled wife's working dog to be racist too. She had to be restrained around black people when she came to the grooming shop to be groomed. He seemed pretty proud of that. My boss was too, so I had to bite my tongue while they bragged on the dog for being that way. When the two of them talked, I always turned the hair dryer on, so it would drown them out. I seethed.

I haven't even looked him in the eye in years. I refuse to speak to him or look at him. He is the single worst one of them all that I have met so far.

I cringe when dealing with those obsessed hateful types of people. It NEVER occurs to them to STFU.

The worst was a pompous bastard who said, "The trouble with Hitler was that he invaded foreign countries. He should have stayed at home and stuck to his work there, dealing with the Gypsies and the Communists". The only reason he didn't add 'and the Jews' was that there were a couple of us present!

Remember Christmas 2004 real clean! We were all sitting around the table after a good meal when my repuke parents and my repuke 93 year old grandmother started in about what a great president Chimpy was...I immediately sprung into action..my first target Mom... she was quickly dispatched with a spinning round kick to the head,my dad tried to intervene and was met with a flurry of punches to the face and groin,grandma decided she was game and caught the business end of a clothesline after which I pile drived all 3 of them through the dining room table. They all felt my progressive wrath that day and are now voting for Obama this year!:sarcasm:

Believes everything the Shrub has ever said and that Sadam had WMDs. Another chickenhawk that says the only good Arab is a dead Arab. He rants and raves about the Liberals ruining this country and all that bullshit. The really maddening thing is that he is a member of our union and believes in unionism yet voted for Bush twice.