My mother has been a Republican forever. I don't really understand why: she's very pro-choice, she's pro-education, pro-working people, etc. It seems like it's mostly inertia... my dad is rabidly Republican (they divorced many years ago, though), and while I love, love, love my mom, I think she naively bought into the "fiscal conservatism" BS (even though it doesn't serve her at all).
She voted for W in 2000, a lot of it in disgust at the Clintons. (And while I think policy-wise Bill was a good prez, I didn't like his philandering, either.) She voted for him again in 2004, because she bought the whole terrorism thing hook, line, and sinker. She came to her senses sometime in 2005 and speaks of him with ridicule and a great deal of snark now (and I always remind her that she voted for him--twice).
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