On 5/29/2014 12:24 PM, F*O*A*D wrote:
On 5/29/14, 12:51 PM, amdx wrote:

At that point my thinking went immediately to FOAD. I think he has the
same mentality as a racist, he hates conservatives, he will call them
names and never know the person. The hatred seems ingrained in his mind.
I would bet* his daddy was a liberal union member and this all came from
his upbringing.
Mikek



Indeed, I think many of today's Republican conservatives are dirtbags,
and that includes several of the ones that **** in rec.boats.

My "daddy" grew up during the Depression and after he was graduated from
college, he and his brother worked in their uncle's non-food variety
stores during WW II. The two of them also ran a custom machine shop for
the U.S. Army on the side, turning out "experimental" shell casings for
a brass factory in Waterbury, Connecticut, and for the Watervleit
Arsenal near Albany, New York. After the war, my dad started a
lawnmower, motorcycle, and boat store business, and in the mid 1950's
also bought into a marina. Those were his occupations. He was never a
union member, but he had lots of union members as customers. My dad was
non-political.

He would be political today if he was trying to run those businesses,
and he saw what the regulations do to business owners.


He was, however, a Philadelphia Mummer. His other hobbies
were taking care of abandoned animals and oil painting.

My mother was a minor functionary in the Republican Party in our
hometown. My early political experience was working in a GOP phone bank
before elections in New Haven County and driving people to the polls on
election day. There was no disgrace in the late 1950s in being a New
England Republican because the GOP had not yet gone bat**** crazy.

You don't seem to know much about anything, Mike. Perhaps you should
stick to selling fish.


Well, so you have told us your upbringing, I didn't get it right.
That's why I said I would only bet a little.

You said a lot when you didn't address the hot issue,
why do you have a knee jerk reaction to hate anyone conservative.
You have rants similar to racists. Just plain wrong thinking.
Mikek