So, how are your conservative friends taking it?

[Tea Earl Grey Hot]

Most of the people I have on Facebook are fundies so the responses I've seen are pretty funny and dumb.

A lot of them are posting little prayers about surviving the next four years as if they're going to be put in concentration camps. My friends from Texas are saying the state should leave the United States. Others are complaining about how obnoxious Obama supporters are acting in response to his win. One of my friends in particular is acting more upset right now than the "leave Britney alone" girl.

In the brief time that Romney had the popular vote after it was announced Obama won, a bunch of my friends were complaining about how unfair the electoral system is.

Oh, and of course, lots of inuendo about revolting.

How are the conservatives you know taking it?

[Something completely different]

I dont have conservative friends.

[Brian37]

My mome seemed pissed in her voice when I called her this morning. I think she cant see that times have changed and her old school bubble thinking is being passed by. I dont think she really hates poor people or blacks, but she did grow up and surround herself with people who saw the working class as losers and blacks as less than equal.

I wish I could convince her that his re ellection prevented an economic backslide into the same policies that put us in this mess. I am a bit miffed as to her support of gay marriage, while not being able to convince her that the party she supports wants to climb into the uturus's of women.

The invasion of women's control over their own health care and bodies by itself should be enought to scare the shit out of anyone. I think she simply cannot accept that times have changed and for the better.

[Tea Earl Grey Hot]

I dont have conservative friends.

Not even poor Tino?

[Darth]

People praying on facebook for your pro-choice country, hoping to get you through the next 4 years till you come to your senses.

[DeistPaladin]

My friends from Texas are saying the state should leave the United States.

@Texas: If we can keep AronRa, don't let the door hit you on the way out.

It might be a good experiment. You elect TeaBagger nutjobs to run everything and come crawling back to us in a few years when you've had enough.

[Something completely different]

Not even poor Tino?

My definition of conservative is a completly different one to yours.
Under the Merkel administration, backwards views of "rural christian values" have been thrown out of the conservative partybook.
They might still be fiscaly conservative - which here means - a buisnessfriendly and low debt policy, but trolling out rant against abortion, same sex marrige and more, do no longer happen.
And yes i do have such "conservative " (by european standards) friends.

What I saw of the republican party, was a bunch of mad people. The fact that almoust two thirds of them are convinced Obama is a muslim says it all.
This hysteric bunch of nuters with their doomsday prophecies, hatefilled violent discriminatory rants and simply a complet ignorance of every single modern western set of values - compares to nothing here in europe but narcecist homeless drunks who mutter arround how their missfortune is the result of a worldconspiracy against them.

I do think that a big part of the american conservatives are ernest and upright people, such as Tino.
But this election was on the conservative side definatly dominated by the tea party, which is why I followed this election, - become friends with some of these freaks? No! I stayed up and watched, because I fear nothing more than these kind of people ruling in the USA.

[Cato]

Disappointed, but not for the usual reasons. The conservatives I know are socially liberal, so I've heard a lot of cries this morning that they're fed up with the influence of the religious right in Republican politcs. Many own small businesses and are simply fearful of continued economic malaise that may cause them to go under. This doesn't mean that they were that enamored with Romney's vague recovery plan, but just wanted something different to shake things up.

I have been telling them for months that people (mostly large corporations) are sitting on a shit load of cash. I would also tell them that I thought no matter who won the election that people will understand what they're working with for the next four years and will start to put the cash to work. Time will tell.

[Annik]

Lots of people accusing Obama of raping the country, demands of a recount (I laughed particularly as Obama won by a looooot), suggestions that the south become a separate country, and the popular threatening to move to countries that are more socialist/socially free than America at present.

[Minimalist]

They are cranky.


But they are always cranky so it is hard to tell the difference.


The reality which is facing white people is that they are a declining share of the electorate.

Romney won white voters by 20 points..... and got creamed.