Politics and Dating.

MOKELE MBEMBE
MOKELE MBEMBE Posts: 53
edited December 2011 in A Moving Train
Here's more of a just for fun topic:

How many of you politically opinionated people would consider dating someone that held political opinions that were severely in conflict with your own? Have you ever dated someone that had a generally different political outlook? How did it work out?
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  • mikepegg44
    mikepegg44 Posts: 3,353
    MOKELE MBEMBE wrote:
    Here's more of a just for fun topic:

    How many of you politically opinionated people would consider dating someone that held political opinions that were severely in conflict with your own? Have you ever dated someone that had a generally different political outlook? How did it work out?


    Currently I am, and it is the best relationship I have ever been in. We balance each other out pretty well. how about you?
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  • MOKELE MBEMBE
    MOKELE MBEMBE Posts: 53
    I've dated one person who had fairly different political opinions, and really, it never came up. But then, she wasn't the most political person in the world.

    I was asking because I'm using an online dating service, and was wondering if someone who was currently reading a Noam Chomsky book would consider dating someone in the military. My question wasn't so specific because I thought I could glean an answer from responses to a more general question.
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  • CH156378
    CH156378 Posts: 1,539
    i would say if it's love it will not matter. if it's just dating it might be an issue. look at james carville and mary matlin as an example. he must really love her.
  • Prince Of Dorkness
    Prince Of Dorkness Posts: 3,763
    Have you ever met a gay Republican?

    Because the ones I've met have all been annoying mama's boys. 90% of them cower in the closet like Dorothy Gale hiding from Elphelba and the way they defend Newt Gingrich is a bit too much like the way a battered house wife defends her husband.

    I try not to be in close proximity to them, let alone date them.

    Although that said, it's amazing the positions a guy can get into when he doesn't have a spine.
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  • BinauralJam
    BinauralJam Posts: 14,158
    Prince Of Dorkness wrote:
    Have you ever met a gay Republican?

    Because the ones I've met have all been annoying mama's boys. 90% of them cower in the closet like Dorothy Gale hiding from Elphelba and the way they defend Newt Gingrich is a bit too much like the way a battered house wife defends her husband.

    I try not to be in close proximity to them, let alone date them.

    Although that said, it's amazing the positions a guy can get into when he doesn't have a spine.




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  • MOKELE MBEMBE
    MOKELE MBEMBE Posts: 53
    Prince Of Dorkness wrote:
    Have you ever met a gay Republican?

    Because the ones I've met have all been annoying mama's boys. 90% of them cower in the closet like Dorothy Gale hiding from Elphelba and the way they defend Newt Gingrich is a bit too much like the way a battered house wife defends her husband.

    I try not to be in close proximity to them, let alone date them.

    Although that said, it's amazing the positions a guy can get into when he doesn't have a spine.

    No, I haven't met any gay Republicans, not in person anyway.

    And I didn't know Newt had any defenders left, gay or not.
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  • Prince Of Dorkness
    Prince Of Dorkness Posts: 3,763
    MOKELE MBEMBE wrote:
    And I didn't know Newt had any defenders left, gay or not.

    oh man... some of the most obvious right-wing scum bag hypocrites have people who'd support them if they were advocating killing everyone's first born son to keep from having to raise taxes on trillionaires.
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,844
    When I first met and married my wife, she was a registered Republican (she is now registered indepedent) and I had recently changed from being a registered Democrat to Green Party. There was nothing conflicting there however because she was old school Republican (i.e. NOT a neo-con or right-winger or Tea Bagger etc.). As long as I have known her, she has been one of the most generous, loving, giving, peace supporting, earth-friendly, and care giving people I've ever known. At the time, she just thought old-school Republican economics made more sense. Since then she has gone independent because she does not care to be labled "right-wing" (which, as you can guess, she is not) and is now more focused on her work in the community than larger-picture politics.

    So labels sometimes really suck and often separate us from the badly needed hard cooperative work of patching this poor world back together again.
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  • whygohome
    whygohome Posts: 2,305
    I used to date Ann Coulter, but she ate her peas one at a time............
  • UpSideDown
    UpSideDown Posts: 1,966
    I can't even handle dating. Let alone politics.
  • haffajappa
    haffajappa British Columbia Posts: 5,955
    UpSideDown wrote:
    I can't even handle dating. Let alone politics.
    :lol:
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  • MG79478
    MG79478 Posts: 1,727
    MOKELE MBEMBE wrote:
    Here's more of a just for fun topic:

    How many of you politically opinionated people would consider dating someone that held political opinions that were severely in conflict with your own? Have you ever dated someone that had a generally different political outlook? How did it work out?

    You have to be careful if you date a liberal, you will most likely have to support them.
  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 25,074
    MG79478 wrote:
    You have to be careful if you date a liberal, you will most likely have to support them.
    really? that is pretty offensive there...
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  • Prince Of Dorkness
    Prince Of Dorkness Posts: 3,763
    MG79478 wrote:
    You have to be careful if you date a liberal, you will most likely have to support them.

    :roll:
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  • rollings
    rollings unknown Posts: 7,127
    MG79478 wrote:
    MOKELE MBEMBE wrote:
    Here's more of a just for fun topic:

    How many of you politically opinionated people would consider dating someone that held political opinions that were severely in conflict with your own? Have you ever dated someone that had a generally different political outlook? How did it work out?

    You have to be careful if you date a liberal, you will most likely have to support them.

    Yeah, but seriously, are you saying you wouldn't WANT to support me?
  • unsung
    unsung I stopped by on March 7 2024. First time in many years, had to update payment info. Hope all is well. Politicians suck. Bye. Posts: 9,487
    My GF is not into politics at all. It's depressing.

    If she was a diehard tax and spend Dem we more than likely wouldn't last. If she was a full blown Rick Perry/Mitt Romney neocon I'd have walked out on the first date.
  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 25,074
    unsung wrote:
    My GF is not into politics at all. It's depressing.

    If she was a diehard tax and spend Dem we more than likely wouldn't last. If she was a full blown Rick Perry/Mitt Romney neocon I'd have walked out on the first date.
    sometimes it is a good thing if your gf is not into politics. unfortunately the intellectual in me requires that in a mate...
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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    MOKELE MBEMBE wrote:
    Here's more of a just for fun topic:

    How many of you politically opinionated people would consider dating someone that held political opinions that were severely in conflict with your own? Have you ever dated someone that had a generally different political outlook? How did it work out?

    i would never consider dating someone whose views were diametrically opposed to my own. though the make up sex would probably be awesome, it just aint worth the grief and frustration.
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  • haffajappa
    haffajappa British Columbia Posts: 5,955
    i am very different than my bf but although he isn't really into politics we generally agree on the same things politically... maybe not always morally and, shudder, definitely not musically.
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  • polaris_x
    polaris_x Posts: 13,559
    LTR - no chance ... FWB - no problem ... :lol:

    i am hard left ... so, severely in conflict with me is hard right ... would never work ... which is probably why i've never dated anyone who was a hardcore right winger ... LTR or FWB ...

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