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My Dad has always been a conservative, but when I was young he told me to never vote a straight party ticket, to make up my own mind about each candidate. And now, after a steady diet of Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly for the last several years, he tells me with pride that he votes a straight Republican ticket, and furthermore that that's the only way to vote if you're a decent person. I can't even ask what happened, because he honestly does not remember being any other way.
It never bothered me before that we voted for different candidates, but sometimes it really hurts to think that my father believes that it's okay to hate people like me because we don't vote the same way. I miss the guy who told me not to vote that straight ticket. I wish he'd come back.
