Your wife...

Really needs to do her homework.

In the long mantra of Titus' "liberal" background, he didn't mention HIS family's history. Please. Allow me.

Both Ray and George, our grandfathers, were lifelong union members. George with the railroad, Ray a Teamster his entire, non-military life. (Keep in mind, both served during WW2, Ray's career well documented deep within the Bund's history, George's not so much. He was a LT (jg) in the Navy, an aviator, and a flight instructor out of Pensacola, FL. He never saw combat, never served overseas during the war, (although did do a crusie in the Far East BEFORE the war, and had the tatoos to prove it) but trained hundreds of Navy pilots that did. For us growing up, the litmus test for anyone who had a "questionable" wartime resume was the stamp of approval from crusty, crabby, grumpy old man Ray, and on more than one occation, sober, even, Ray heartily approved of George's wartime resume and encouraged the man to brag. George never did.) George came from a deeply union family, and raised progressive Democrat children, including my mother. George and his wife were New Dealers through and through. Linda, my mother, was a quintessential Camelot era Democrat.

Ray, politically, embodied the living schism that is progressive Republicanism. He voted for Eisenhower and Nixon, dispite Kennedy's war record. He supported the fight against communism whole-heartedly. He also supported large government domestic programs like the interstate system, the TVA, the BLM and other individual aspects of New Deal, but to the best of my knowledge voted AGAINST FDR three times. (He was overseas in 1944 and unable to vote.) He HATED big government, HATED government spending on the prolific scale he lived to see, but LOVED Reagan AND George Bush Sr. He loved Social Security and vigorously defended it. He did not trust the private sector NOR his union with his retirement. So in terms of pinning the old man down, he was a difficult person to corner as his politics covered a wide specrum of issues.

Titus' father is the picture of "social liberal, foreign policy conservative." Father always supported Social Security and Medicade. Even today he is a supporter of health care reform, just not necessarily Obama's version of it. He believes it IS the Federal Government's job to provide these services to the population. He also is a firm supporter of the war on Terror and a strong military presense in areas of American interests abroad.

Titus's mother's views are well documented within previous Bund posts. Feel free to mine the past posts. Pay attention to just about anything dealing with New Deal or Kennedy era Democrats.

Titus hating libs... That is too funny!

I was SO TORN!!! I wanted to open this post with this sequence of quotes, but instead I'll put it here.

"Lt. Winters! Permission to speak!"
"Go ahead, Private Randalmann."
"Lt. Winters, why does Captain Soebel hate Easy Company?"
"Captain Soebel doesn't hate Easy Company. He loves Easy Company. He just hates you."
"Thank you, sir."