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> People with whom I've never agreed in the past are supporting Bush

Hope I'm not getting to be a broken record, ( record: an antique mechanical sound reproduction device), to some around here, but please allow me to testify.

I've been a Democrat all my life. I voted D in the last nine presidential elections. I was a leftist in my youth.

For the last several years I've chaffed at the silliness of the political correctness movement and recognized the need for a strong military, but still drank the liberal Kool-aid. I suffered from the selected not elected angst of the 2000 election. I couldn't stand resident Bush.

Then 9/11 happened and I saw the President stand up in the aftermath as the leader of our country and the Commander in Chief. I started defending our policy of liberating Afghanistan to my liberal friends who complained about how we were just bombing rocks. I started seeing the Democrats become more interested in partisan political gain and less interested in standing in a united front in our war on terrorists. I started listening to Glenn Beck and saw how the media misrepresented the efforts to support our troops. I discovered Fox news when we liberated Iraq and was shocked, awed and profoundly disappointed at how the MSM was reporting the war. I started agreeing with Rush instead of loathing him. I discovered F***France and FreeRepublic.

To cut to the heart of the matter, once you start to see that a lot of the things you took for granted had been based on false assumptions you start wondering what else you were wrong about. I really no longer consider myself a Democrat. I've moved on.

To ADemocratNoMore:

Just wanted to tell you that my own personal story has been very, very similar to yours.

I was a lifelong democrat-liberal, but mainly out of habit and not out of any deep incisive THINKING (my bad). I just went along with the usual Democratic/lib garbage every election, except in 1980 when I voted for Ronald Reagan because I thought that Jimmy Carter was a disaster for America (an opinion I still share and feel even more strongly about given what Jimmah is up to now).

For me everything started to change after 9/11. Living in NYC, just a few miles north of the WTC, this had a huge impact on me and my life. The thing that started turning me against the lifelong Demo/lib think I had been in was the Homeland Security Act fiasco, where the dems were stalling passage because they wanted everyone working in the security field to be unionized. I thought -- oh great, we just have 3000 dead and all the democrats care about is getting more unionized voters.

AFter that, I began to question more and more of what I heard from the left. I cancelled my ages-old subscrioption to the NY TImes during the Iraq war out of disgust with what they were publishing .. I had been increasingly angered by them but the Iraq war coverage pushed me over the edge.

I am now a Rush listener, a Bush voter and am currently reading books by Ann Coulter and Bernie Goldberg. And agreeing with almost everything I read. I DESPISE Michael Moore, Al Franken and the Demo talking heads like Colmes.

So I have come a long long way in a very short time. And I suspect there are many more like you and me.

New blood for the Republican and conservative cause.

Welcome aboard Free Republic. If there was a welcome thread that I missed , I'm sorry. I'll extend it now.

What has happened to you has happened to a lot of us.

When you quit believing in politics as a faith based process and look at it intellectually a lot of things happen.

The first is the obviousness that liberalism is based on feelings and not logic.

The second is the awareness that liberalism is based on the assumption that people are worthless idiot children that need to be taken care of and that power devolves from the government to the "right" people.

The third is awareness of the falsity in the position that taking money away from people at the top and discrediting people that have worked to achieve will elevate those at the bottom.

When you question these premises the world will never be the same again.

Congratulations! We all need to think and evaluate the way you did. Appreciate your frankness. It's OK that it took you a little longer to have your eyes opened.

I still believe in a strong two party system as the best for our country. However, as Zell Miller and others stated, the party has been hijacked. I'm saddened by that.

In Texas you will find that a large portion of our citizens have transferred their party allegiance.
Welcome to FR.