A Father Daughter Talk
A young woman was about to finish her first year of
college. Like so many others her age she considered
herself to be a very liberal Democrat and was for
distribution of all wealth. She felt deeply ashamed
that her father was a rather staunch Republican which
she expressed openly.
One day she was challenging her father on his beliefs
and his opposition to higher taxes on the rich & more
welfare programs. In the middle of her heart felt
diatribe based upon the lectures she had from her far
left professors at her school, he stopped her and
asked her point blank, how she was doing in school.
She answered rather haughtily that she had a 4.0 GPA,
and let him know that it was tough to maintain. That
she had to study all the time, never had time to go
out and party like other people she knew. She didn’t
even have time for a boyfriend and didn’t really have
many college friends because of spending all her time
studying. That she was taking a more difficult
curriculum.
Her father listened and then asked, “How is your
friend Mary.”
She replied, “Mary is barely getting by”, she
continued, “all she has is barely a 2.0 GPA” adding,
“and all she takes are easy classes and she never
studies.” But to explain further she continued
emotionally, “But Mary is so very popular on campus,
college for her is a blast, she goes to all the
parties all the time and very often doesn’t even show
up for classes because she is too hung over.”
Her father then asked his daughter, “Why don’t you go
to the Dean’s office and ask him to deduct a 1.0 off
your 4.0 GPA and give it to her friend who only had a
2.0.” He continued, “That way you will both have a
3.0 GPA and certainly that would be a fair equal
distribution of GPA.”
The daughter visibly shocked by the fathers suggestion
angrily fired back, “That wouldn’t be fair! I worked
really hard for mine, I did without and Mary has done
little or nothing, she played while I worked real
hard!”
The father slowly smiled and said, “Welcome to the
Republican Party.”
