Liberals change to conservatives once they get their first paycheck and see alllll the taxes that have been removed for 'free' healthcare, 'free' contraception and 'free' green energy. Libs never grow up; us 'Cons' have to grow up in a hurry!

While I feel bad for the author that she had to find out her daughter is an urban lefty, I absolutely would not have put up with what her trendy freindy's did while a guest in her house.

Once people get broken they so often can not be fixed.
I feel your loss.

This is a fine article. I thank the author for writing it and the poster and Lucianne for disseminating it.

Very good article. I wish I could be so understanding and keep my mouth shut.

She really should have shamed the four rude little idiots that didn't even have the common courtesy to thank her for the free room and food.

Lie-berals honsetly believe that being rude and hateful towards conservatives (and libertarians) is acceptable since they see conservatives as some sub-human, unelightened species.

Wow. I'm glad the author stood up for her convictions, but I would have been even more glad if she had made them run the laundry before they left.

Love this woman. She handled these know-it-all 20 somethings very well. They have Obama's arrogance about their ignorance. Her debate comments were right on. Well done, Mrs Lake!

She needs a cellular jammer. They would have left a lot sooner.

I was a liberal too, until I had children.

“If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have no brain.”
-Winston Churchill

She should have presented each one with a bill when they left.

I remembered when my niece was about that age. I was stunned listening to her talk but I always expressed my opinion and soon backed her into a corner. Took a few years but she got over being a liberal.

Where did the 20-somethings get their laptops, etc... if they are not working?

She should have given them a lesson in big government and shut off her internet access when they started tweeting during the debate.

Her children are not liberals. They are just children. Their world is still largely make believe. Their political opinions are worthless and should not cause anyone distress. They have no idea what they are talking about nor, of course, any idea that they have no idea. They are teenaged twenty-somethings with more growing up to do. Life will iron out the wrinkles and rectify the major errors of many of them. One of the more serious fallacies of contemporary popular opinion is that children and young people without any experience of life have something significant to contribute to political discourse. The consequences of such an irrational belief be seen in the Sixties and all that followed.

This article coincided with my wife's comment this morning about the incredible devices we were using, the iPhone and iPad. My reaction was that Apple and other firms had simply created interactive TV, with a resulting decline in our knowledge of grammar, math, history, science, economics and political science. The article explained how the 20 something basement dwellers, aka liberals, were using their devices to tweet disparaging comments about Romney during Monday's debate while Mom tried to explain BO's prevarications.

Barack Obama is a terribly flawed and failed president. Until the debates, he had a strong chance of being reelected without an agenda, without an honest discussion of what has gone wrong in his tenure, and without any coverage of his opaque background, his executive orders, his czars, etc. All while sales of I whatevers soared. We have incredible access to information, yet we are apparently less informed than ever, as Annie Lake's article details. Strange.

Kids like these only know how they ''feel'' when someone like Obama talks. They have no interest in fact checking either. That would be the LAST time my kid dragged her friends into my home. I'd like to see the epilog to this story of what she said to her daughter.

I might have said (but didn't), "Obama's economic policy is the reason you guys don't have a real job!"

That's where the writer loses my respect. It's her house, her money, her hospitality and they're being snarky.

What's the matter with saying, "Okay, pay up. I'm sick of your mooching AND your politics."

Wow. I am so hacked on behalf of this lady!!! Let me have a few minutes with those kids, and their eyebrows will be singed off with the scathing, blistering upbraiding I will give them. THE NERVE. Taking hospitality from someone without showing proper deference and gratitude is tacky, rude, and crass. I hope the author decides to make a rule from now on not to extend her hospitality to such. :stillsteaming:

She is enabling their Liberalism and Obamas Lies.
Also, they will not have a home and children because they will be dependent upon the largess of the government and its unionized thugs.
As to keeping a large house so kids can come home and freeload - No! no!No!
It is not good for either of them. It further infantilizes the children and ensures Obamacare and death panels for the parents.
At a minimum, the "children" should have contributed to food-after all they did have money for beer and wine- and done their laundry before leaving.
It could be worse, her daughter could be marrying one of them!

I will happily accept their contributions toward my Social Security and Medicare.

Conservative values gave these soon-to-be conservatives a taste of what tolerance is.

Taxing Mom will take that away and their inheritance because of their Liberal voting.

I say, let them experience the financial and ideological "fruits" of their "labors"!

The results of Progressivism are the best incentive for converting to Conservatism.

Margaret Thatcher.... "you run out of other people's money"...

I sympathize with the honest, intelligent, aware young people who recognize what a shambles obama has made of our economy. I recognize their plight, but I DO wish these jackasses who support the left all of the tragedy that leftism brings into their lives and I say to them,"You deserve this." You deserve unemployment, weak currency, uncertainty about your future, and all the other identifying effects that liberalism leaves in its wake.

Where was her husband in all this? Why would he allow his daughter and her friends to behave so badly in his house, in front of his wife? And why bother going to church if you don't stand up for anything preached there? This is part of the reason we never finished our basement. Our kids are free to have their friends over but they are all part of the family when they're here. Funny thing is, they seem to really enjoy it.

I had a niece like these children ... until she taught a few classes at a DC elementary school.

The minute my daughter told me to leave a room in my own house, I would have told her and her friends to pack up and get out. Immediately.

The couple should sell their large house instead of awaiting an almost certain return to the nest by the daughter and move into a small, low-maintenance condo with the only spare bedroom turned into an office and/or sewing room.

We have turned our extra rooms into a man cave, a sewing/crafts room and a cats' room. We have no sofa-bed, only a single air-bed which would have to go on the floor.

Spend that girl's inheritance now.

You steer into the storm. React with, 'really, that's great. I need to get up to speed on why progressives are so wise and conservatives are so backward. Enlighten me.'

ANY subject you choose will quickly expose the bottom line of beliefs. Abortion to remedy irresponsible sex, Drugs to 'enhance' their lifestyle, etc.

On the other hand with a liberal it is easy to overestimate their knowledge base. I was arguing with a friend about BHO's economic policies and he had no idea who Ben Bernanke was. After he blamed BHO's problems on Republican opposition, I asked him to name ONE thing BHO didn't get that he wanted. End of discussion.

Mom should kick her daughter out of the house. Let`s see how liberal she is when she has to fend for herself.

FTA: Is all of this not indicative of the relationship between the youthful left and the rest of us?

Yes it is. It is also indicative of what a sap this woman is.

Inviting her daughter to stay is one thing but inviting the other adults is another. She should have kicked them out the second they tried to treat her like a second class citizen in her own home.

This article makes me proud of my two sons (17 & 14) who openly mocked Obama during the second debate. The younger one wanted me to turn on the 3rd debate after the Cardinals fell behind by so much so early just so he could heckle Obama again. My oldest son would listen to me rant about politics and Leftists when he was younger, and he just admitted to me recently that he went out on his own and looked up what I was saying to see why I had my opinions (fact-checking me). "Dad is a smart guy, so he has to have a good reason why he says what he says, so let's find out why.".... his words describing his thought process. Now he's just as conservative, if not more, than me.

Those kids have a long journey of learning about life ahead of them.

And if it were my kid who was with the rest of them, I'd tell her the polites ones were welcomed back into My home, but the others - nope, let them find another place to crash and eat. No mercy.

Should have given the little mooches an early message..

I am going to give you a lesson...make everyone of them turn over what ever money they have to her...then take 60% or so for their "free internet\food\tv", take another 30% to pay for her political support\her contributions...then as she "gave back" the pittance that the government felt they could keep pick out a couple of them who are the snarkiest and point out honestly it wasn't really their money and she didn't think they needed any of the money..."they didn't build that" plus load it up on a couple of the others who contributed the least and make a point that they would like her so much more and keep voting for her as long as she took their money and it to them.

I often find this as a problem with Southern conservatives. They are strong in their beliefs but are just polite to throw the bums out. It's a Southern thing to be polite in the face of rudeness.

Get a clue. Tell your daughter she's old enough to earn her own money, do her own laundry, pay her own bills and understand the joy of paying taxes to prop up others like her. She's a liberal because you're enabling her to be one.

No one would tell me to shuuuush in my own house, and NO ONE would co-habitate in my house without at least a very obvious wedding ring on both their hands. Period.