2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: "It’s Personal Now: Republican Women Explain Why They’re Voting Obama" [View all]Doc Holliday
(719 posts)on your choice of a mother.
My grandmother went the other way. Her last election was the '08 (she passed in '10 at the age of 95), and bless her West-Texas-born-and-raised heart, she was so conflicted that last time out. She didn't like Uncle Fester or Caribou Barbie a bit....but she absolutely would not (even if held at gunpoint) vote for "the ni**er." So she wound up holding her nose and voting Republican, her usual choice; although she went with Bill Clinton in the 90's, and she just loved Hillary after meeting her during her run for the Senate. If Hillary had gotten the nomination, I think Gram would have gone blue that year. That was her avowed reason for not liking McCain/Palin-- she thought it was slimy of McC to try and scoop up the disaffected Hillary voters by putting "that skank" on the ticket with him. She really didn't like Sarah. Some of the stuff Gram said her about was harsher than anything Bill Maher ever did; she was the first person I ever heard call the Palin family the "Klondike Kardashians."
Come to think of it, most of the words Gram used to describe Sarah Palin had those harsh "k" sounds in them.
(edited to correct some unforgivable spelling errors)