I have precisely one conservative friend. (I could have more, but I've allowed many of them to fall by the wayside not because of politics, but because life's gotten in the way.)
During last night's debate, a mutual friend (who's as liberal as I am) commented on FB that she couldn't watch--it was too stressful for her. I commented to the effect that our guy was doing quite well.
Our conservative friend jumped in with the comment, "Doing well by lying?"
I went through approximately five minutes of dithering between bringing up the lying that the "winner" of the last debate had done, reminding her of her one-time fervent support of Rick Perry at one point in the last year, and a whole bunch of other responses that would pretty much kill our friendship.
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