I think I'm falling in love with a Republican.

[tridim]

I didn't know until today, so don't blame me.

Does that make me a bad person?

[HappyMe]

1. Nope.

That makes you human.

[KamaAina]

2. No, but it might drive you completely around the bend.

So far Mom's managed. Somehow.

[tridim]

6. She has already driven me completely around the bend

I'm bonkers.

[Demoiselle]

11. Congratulations on falling in love.

Everything else is mere detail.
(Mazel Tov.)

[Bertha Venation]

20. Hear, hear!!

[seabeyond]

3. i married one and could not ask for a better hubby, marriage, father for sons.

a decade into the marriage he voted kerry, and then obama. but, dont be calling him anything but a repug, lol

[bluesbassman]

4. Well, they must be one of the good kind then.

[Wait Wut]

5. DON'T DO IT!!!

J/K

I've lived in Arizona for 11+ years...from Chicago. Most of my friends are Rs including my closest friends. One on one, they can be reasonable and compassionate. It's when you put them in groups they become soulless morons.

[tridim]

8. Well, she hasn't said the R-word yet.

Thank Jebus.

If she is, I have to assume she's a moderate. She's too smart and kind to be a wingnut.

[Chan790]

7. It worked for my parents.

Given, my mother is what we used to call a liberal Republican (Like Lowell Weicker) and my stepfather is a very-conservative Labor and Catholic-Doctrine Democrat. (Like Bob Casey)

Ironically, they couldn't be further apart if one of them was a hippie and the other a Moral Majoritarian.

[struggle4progress]

9. I do feel obliged to point out that if you ignore the advice of anonymous strangers

(such as myself), you do so at your own risk: many of us have a great deal of experience giving advice on the internet, to people whom we have never met and about whom we actually know nothing at all; in fact, we have been giving such advice for years and years, to thousands of people whose lives would no doubt have improved considerably, if only they had listened to our advice

[tridim]

10. Haha. I didn't say "Help me!!!!!"

I'm not quitting no matter what anyone says, IRL or on the Internet.

[struggle4progress]

12. Well, you have been warned

[Kali]

24. !

[lastlib]

13. It'll never work.

It almost happened to me, too, but I soon realized it was doomed: I was Scorpio, she was Feces.....

[Bake]

14. Why yes, yes it does.

Just sayin'. The heart hath no politics sometimes.

Really? A Republican? Can you get your money back?



Bake

[UTUSN]

15. Beware the Stockholm Syndrome!1 n/t

[Arugula Latte]

16. Not a bad person, but a person with questionable judgment.

To me, if you can't respect someone's beliefs, then you can't respect that person, and what's the point of a relationship like that (beyond somewhat superficial friendship)?

[Chiyo-chichi]

17. What would Larry David do?

[NewJeffCT]

18. No, you're not a bad person

if you like her and she's a good person (despite being a Republican), then you should count yourself lucky.

[Bertha Venation]

19. Food for thought, perhaps, for you

My sister, a liberal atheist, has been happily married for nearly 31 years to her husband, a conservative Christian fundamentalist.

Best wishes to you.

[tridim]

23. I'm sure she's not a fundie. No way I could survive that.

Probably just a typical mid-west conservative. At least that's my best guess.

We haven't really talked about anything political yet, there's too much other good stuff to talk about.

[Ikonoklast]

21. I knew Ann Coulter would find herself a good guy one day.

Did she brand her initials on your bum with a red-hot coathanger yet?

That's how she shows that she really cares.

[tridim]

22. Arghhhhhhh!!!

Gawd no!!

Can't wash that one off, but she is NOTHING like Ann Coulter. She's nice, for one thing.

[Rowdyboy]

25. The heart doesn't understand that shit...You love who you love and hopefully you're smart enough

to fall for someone you can live with happily. Otherwise, your life could suck, big time.