forum members your parents are closest to politically

[falling apart like the ashes of American flags]

mom - nickshepDEM
dad - no one relaly, he just hates political parties.

[Cashcow]

Mom - Nym90
Dad - nclib

[Gabu]

Mom: Nym90
Dad: BRTD

[WalterMitty]

dad-probably one of the hard core libertarians/government skeptics.  david s. or new feddy.
mom-one of the centrist republicans, like dazzleman.

[Bono]

Dad: Al
Mom: Lunar, but she's really an anarcho-socialist.

[Sam Spade]

Mom:  Al (honestly, everything Al says I could hear coming out of my mother's mouth)
Dad:  tougher, probably Cashcow.

[MHS2002]

Dad: StatesRights
Mom: dazzleman

[TeePee4Prez]

Mom: PADem only pro-choice. "Likes Ed, likes Arlen, hates Rick."
Dad: Somwhere between patrick1 and Al.

[Jake]

Dad: Sam Spade
Mom: dazzleman

[King]

I don't know.  My mom has voted Democratic in every election except 2004 where she voted Bush/Cheney and my dad never votes or speaks about anything political.

[Joe Kakistocracy]

mom - nickshepDEM
dad - no one relaly, he just hates political parties.

So, me then.

[opebo]

Hah, I bet no one picks me!

My father is similar to say a Walter Mitty or Bullmoose or Angus. 

My mother.. well who on here is moderate economically and extremely right wing socially?  Maybe Jake?

[Sam Spade]

Hah, I bet no one picks me!

None of my parents would endorse molesting children, if that's what you mean.

[ian]

I was thinking of my father when I took the pc test & he would have gotten:
Economic Left/Right: 1.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.74
My mother would have gotten a:
Economic Left/Right: -0.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.62
So...
Dad=Carl Hayden/Tory
Mom=Gabu/William Jennings Beef

Both have voted Republican presidentially since Dole.  Vote Democratic in local/statewide election.

Good topic!

[dazzleman]

Very good question, BRTD.

Dad - That's a tough one.  Dad is idealistic and philosophically liberal but operationally conservative (translation:  liberal until it starts to affect him personally).  Unreliable for either party.  Does anybody have any suggestions for the poster that matches that description best? 

Mom - Was a bit shy of a northern version of StatesRights, but not quite.  Very reliable Republican voter.  A bit more conservative than I am on most issues, but not a radical difference.

[7,052,770]

Cosmo Kramer for both, I think.

[migrendel]

It's like this: I inherited as vaguely socialist outlook from my parents, who hold strongly liberal views, much to the bewilderment of many who know them. I personally adopted a more radical philosophy out of a belief that moderate socialism is a philosophical compromise, formed out of an unholy deference to many of the organic assumptions of the capitalist mentality.

[Hitchabrut]

Dad - Keystone phil
Mom - mitty

[Blerpiez]

Mom  - nclib
Dad - Nym90

[Bono]

It's like this: I inherited as vaguely socialist outlook from my parents, who hold strongly liberal views, much to the bewilderment of many who know them. I personally adopted a more radical philosophy out of a belief that moderate socialism is a philosophical compromise, formed out of an unholy deference to many of the organic assumptions of the capitalist mentality.

Are you the reencarnacion of Philo Vance?

[opebo]

It's like this: I inherited as vaguely socialist outlook from my parents, who hold strongly liberal views, much to the bewilderment of many who know them. I personally adopted a more radical philosophy out of a belief that moderate socialism is a philosophical compromise, formed out of an unholy deference to many of the organic assumptions of the capitalist mentality.

Are you the reencarnacion of Philo Vance?

migrendel - it is that very unholy compromise represented by Keynesian liberalism that I like.  An unprincpled mess, but the best of both worlds.   I like the idea of a system in which the lower classes defer to capitalism by allowing it to exist and admitting its productive abilities while demanding punishing marginal tax rates, redistributive welfare, and union wages, while the upper classes defer to socialism by accepting nobless oblige, and yet refusing the give up their privaledged position in the heirarchy.  There is something nice about admitting the other fellow has a point, while still insisting upon your own interests.

Bono, I had never heard of Philo Vance, but I have looked him up and he seems cool!  But was S. S. Van Dine (W. H. Wright) ripping off P.G. Wodehouse (my favorite author)? 

[PBrunsel]

Dad: Liberty

Mom: Ebowed

[Bono]

Bono, I had never heard of Philo Vance, but I have looked him up and he seems cool!  But was S. S. Van Dine (W. H. Wright) ripping off P.G. Wodehouse (my favorite author)? 

I don't know, but he wasn't parodying.
His second book "The Canary Murder Case" was supposed to represent the attack from puritanism on sexual, young love. Now that I think of it, you'd probably like it.

[Citizen James]

Mom - WalterMitty
Dad - Bandit

[Colin]

Mom: Probably Jake, PBrunsel or Phil

Dad: Probably Sam Spade or MHS2002