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A call from my sister about O.C.

Wolfebane

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Unfortunately I'm the only "Conservative" in my Family. Needless to say I don't attend any Family Reunions.

Sometimes, the only thing in common family members have is their DNA.

Yeah, growing up I always assumed that my parents were Conservative because I thought that was the default common sense position (we also never really discussed politics).

But a few years ago my Aunt, who still lives in CA where she and her sisters (my mother) were born said to me once while I was visiting something to the effect of:

How did you get to be such an evil little republican growing up in this family.

Needless to say I had no idea how to respond.
 

jeeper1

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How did you get to be such an evil little republican growing up in this family.

I would have said "I have an IQ that is much higher than your room temperture IQ.":D
 

jt59

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Yeah, growing up I always assumed that my parents were Conservative because I thought that was the default common sense position (we also never really discussed politics).

But a few years ago my Aunt, who still lives in CA where she and her sisters (my mother) were born said to me once while I was visiting something to the effect of:

How did you get to be such an evil little republican growing up in this family.

Needless to say I had no idea how to respond.

You could have told her that you ended up with all the common sense!
 

Tacitus42

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Not A Churchill quote

I would quote winston churchil-
"to be young and liberal is to have a heart, to be older and conservative is to have a brain"

Misattributed
If you're not a liberal when you're 25, you have no heart. If you're not a conservative by the time you're 35, you have no brain. According to research by Mark T. Shirey, citing Nice Guys Finish Seventh: False Phrases, Spurious Sayings, and Familiar Misquotations by Ralph Keyes, 1992, this quote was first uttered by mid-nineteenth century French historian and statesman François Guizot when he observed, Not to be a republican at 20 is proof of want of heart; to be one at 30 is proof of want of head. (N'être pas républicain à vingt ans est preuve d'un manque de cœur ; l'être après trente ans est preuve d'un manque de tête.) This quote has been attributed variously to George Bernard Shaw, Benjamin Disraeli, Otto von Bismarck, and others.
Furthermore, the Churchill Centre, on its Falsely Attributed Quotations page, states "there is no record of anyone hearing Churchill say this." Paul Addison of Edinburgh University is quoted as stating: "Surely Churchill can't have used the words attributed to him. He'd been a Conservative at 15 and a Liberal at 35! And would he have talked so disrespectfully of Clemmie, who is generally thought to have been a lifelong Liberal?"
Variants: Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.
Show me a young conservative and I'll show you someone with no heart. Show me an old liberal and I'll show you someone with no brains.
If you are not a socialist by the time you are 25, you have no heart. If you are still a socialist by the time you are 35, you have no head[/B]
 

davidmcbeth

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When I first started carrying and I tried to talk to him about it he even said at one point, half jokingly, that he was "concerned that I would shoot him."

Shut up dad ... or I'll shoot you.....

Classic banter between me and my dad .. I win every argument.
 

acmariner99

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How did you get to be such an evil little republican growing up in this family.

I would have said "I have an IQ that is much higher than your room temperture IQ.":D

rofl -- my family would have disowned me if I had ended up as anything other than a grass roots conservative. I turned my dad into a major gun nut :) although he admires and respects my right to OC, he is skittish about it himself because he doesn't want to end up on the wrong end of openly hostile sheeples or being hassled by an LEO.
 

MyWifeSaidYes

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I have a family with a few "I think I should be against that" types floating around.

Simply say that you would be happy to discuss your reasons for OC'ing when you see them at the event.
 
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Herr Heckler Koch

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I would quote winston churchil-
"to be young and liberal is to have a heart, to be older and conservative is to have a brain"
Mis-attributed to Winston Churchill. http://www.amazon.com/Nice-guys-finish-seventh-misquotations/dp/0062700200 French historian and statesman François Guizot, N'être pas républicain à vingt ans est preuve d'un manque de cœur ; l'être après trente ans est preuve d'un manque de tête.(Not to be a republican at 20 is proof of want of heart; to be one at 30 is proof of want of head.)
 
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