My white male millionaire friend is voting for WHO!?!

[Playinghardball]

I got a call from my buddy last night to come watch Sunday Football, drink a couple beers, and just catch up. We talk politics like we watch football: We mutually respect each other's right to be who we are, but also take great pleasure in giving each other crap about our teams, our candidates, and our economic philosophies.

On my way over last night, I was smiling to myself while coming up with my top ten list of reasons why he should vote for Obama. Not to change his vote, mind you, but just to get him riled up and fire something back over beers. Deep down, I knew he was going to vote for Romney. His business ventures put him in the top one percent, income-wise; He is a big critic of the welfare state; He's a socially-moderate, fiscally conservative Catholic (rarely attending, though); He thinks and works hard to fulfill his own self-interest in his business and personal life, and feels no need to apologize for that.

So, I got to his place and settled into my beer, passed a round of chewing tobacco over to him (you can take the boy out of Missouri, but you can't take the Missouri out of the boy), smiled a smartass smile, and asked him the question I had been waiting for.

"So, who are you voting for for president?"

"I'm not sure," he said completely seriously, "but I think I'm going to vote for Obama."

I nearly choked on my Skoal.

More at: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/09/17/1132739/-My-white-male-millionaire-friend-is-voting-for-WHO

[mainer]

1. Ridiculous assumption that white millionaires are slam-dunk Romney voters

This weekend I attended a big Democratic fundraiser here in Maine and the attendees were 99% white, there were quite a few millionaires, and every single one was voting for Obama.

[Chan790]

2. ^^^This.

I don't talk about it here a lot but I come from money, not a little bit of money, Southern New England brahmin country-club-set "Yes, I think I'll sailing-yacht out for a spin" grew-up-with-servants prep-school-educated attended-private-college money.

I admit I was a CR but I was never anything to the right of a somewhat-liberal Rockefeller Republican...and now I'm critical of the DNC for not being liberal enough. Presuming that I'd be a Romney voter simply because I'm fairly-wealthy is to insult my intelligence and ability to reason out that Mitt is no friend of mine or my interests...or those of the vast majority of Americans who weren't born with the silver spoon.

[Cha]

3. Hey, good to know, mainer!

[progressoid]

4. I think the title is misleading.

It should have mentioned his party also. But from the first paragraph is seems that the writer and the millionaire are on opposing teams politically. So one assumes the writer means his friend was a Repub & would vote for his team (R).

[dawg]

5. It takes both wealth *and* short-term thinking.

Conservative economic policies aren't in the best long-term interests of the wealthy either.