ElkGroveDan and GOPHACK: Ten Years of Conservative Bliss

Today is the 10th anniversary of my marriage to the most wonderful conservative woman in the world.

We met in the Young Republicans. Our first date was walking precincts for a conservative candidate for Assembly in Pasadena during the L.A. Riots. When I discovered she was packing a Smith & Wesson .357, I knew it was true love.

I proposed to her on New Years' Eve on the way to an informal gathering of Young Americans For Freedom at Lake Tahoe.

We announced our engagement at the organizing convention that created the Young Republican Federation of California.

We went to Colorado for our honeymoon because liberals were boycotting the state that year.

Our first child was born on Rush Limbaugh's birthday.

Our life has been one of working on a lot of campaign losses and a few fantastic victories. We've been hired and fired because of our uncompromising ideology and our disdain for PC nonsense. We've each left our mark in our own special way on politics and life in California. (Pat Nolan, Jim Rogan, The Clinton Haircut Incident, The Assembly Majority, the Horcher Recall, Proposition 22, Bill Simon, The Assembly, The Senate, and hundreds of weekends volunteering for good people across California.) Through it all, the highs and the lows we've been there for each other. Given the chance I would re-live it all over again exactly the same way.

We've done our part for the next generation of patriotic conservatism, by bringing into the world three smart, beautiful little girls and an adorable wise-guy little boy to carry on our causes and our beliefs some day.

With all this in mind, is it any wonder that I would ask my fellow Freepers to help us celebrate our 10th anniversary?

She’s as beautiful to me today as she was that day ten years ago. There’s probably bit less hair and a few more pounds on me, but deep down we are the same wild and crazy Young Republican Yaffers that we were the day we first met.

So how about a few 10th anniversary BUMPS for my beautiful wife Allison? You all know her as GOPHACK.

1 posted on 08/21/2003 2:12:23 PM PDT by ElkGroveDan

2 posted on 08/21/2003 2:12:40 PM PDT by ElkGroveDan (It's time for Arnold to stop splitting the Republican vote and step aside for the good of the party)

3 posted on 08/21/2003 2:14:06 PM PDT by Drango (To Serve Man ... IT'S A COOKBOOK!)

Fantastic. Congratulations!

4 posted on 08/21/2003 2:14:58 PM PDT by lainie

Bump to a great anniversary for you two! I love your story!

5 posted on 08/21/2003 2:16:05 PM PDT by MEG33

To: ElkGroveDan; farmfriend; Ernest_at_the_Beach; NormsRevenge; ScottinSacto

CONGRATULATIONS, you lovers!!!

May you two have more than the 41 years Mrs. Wasp and I are celebrating this month of flying in tight formation!!! We haven't stung each other to death... Yet!!!

6 posted on 08/21/2003 2:16:27 PM PDT by SierraWasp (You are watching the Liberal monopolized California government collapse on it's own folly!!!)

To: ElkGroveDan; Gophack

Congratulations to you two!

7 posted on 08/21/2003 2:17:18 PM PDT by heleny

Absolutely inspiring. Many, many happy returns!

PS-I think you got the far better part of this bargin.

8 posted on 08/21/2003 2:17:35 PM PDT by IGOTMINE (He needed killin')

When I discovered she was packing a Smith & Wesson .357, I knew it was true love.

"When I hold you in my arms,
And I feel my finger on your trigger,
I know nobody can do me no harm
Because happiness is a warm gun"

Congratulations to both of you!!!

Ten more years, ten more years!! ;-)

9 posted on 08/21/2003 2:19:10 PM PDT by Scenic Sounds (Conservatism never really loses; it simply changes.)

To: ElkGroveDan; Gophack

Awesome! Best wishes from Illinois.

10 posted on 08/21/2003 2:20:12 PM PDT by Snake65 (Osama Bin Decomposing)

To: ElkGroveDan; Gophack

11 posted on 08/21/2003 2:20:41 PM PDT by MEG33

Well.

Well.

I'm trying to type even though my eyes are full of tears.

What can I say? You're a romantic at heart, but I always knew that.

I thank God we found each other, because you are my best friend.

I love you, too.

Now go kick some liberal butt. Starting with Arnold.

12 posted on 08/21/2003 2:24:38 PM PDT by Gophack

To: ElkGroveDan; adversarial; Alylonee; AmericanHombre; BibChr; blaze; BornOnTheFourth; breakem; ...

Sacramento Area ping. Good news for once.

13 posted on 08/21/2003 2:27:30 PM PDT by farmfriend ( Isaiah 55:10,11)

To: ElkGroveDan; Gophack

Congratulations bump! Great story, I love to hear such stories!

My hubby and I celebrated our 10th in April. No kids, though. You guys are very blessed. Four in 10 years!

My sis called me this morning to announce that her guy asked her to marry him. She has been divorced for 15 years, so this is a very happy occasion. It's a good news kinda day.

14 posted on 08/21/2003 2:30:54 PM PDT by .38sw

To: Scenic Sounds

"When I hold you in my arms, And I feel my finger on your trigger, I know nobody can do me no harm Because happiness is a warm gun"

BANG BANG..... SHOOT SHOOT!!!!!

15 posted on 08/21/2003 2:31:49 PM PDT by GmbyMan (everythingpolitics.blogspot.com)

BANG BANG..... SHOOT SHOOT!!!!!

And what should it matter that none of it had anything to do with a gun? ;-)

16 posted on 08/21/2003 2:34:23 PM PDT by Scenic Sounds (Conservatism never really loses; it simply changes.)

Congrats and many more from Southeast Indiana!!!

17 posted on 08/21/2003 2:39:57 PM PDT by day10 (Homeschool Rocks! Spare your children the misery of the public school system.)

To: ElkGroveDan; Gophack

Happy anniversary and many more happy years to you both!

D

18 posted on 08/21/2003 2:41:10 PM PDT by daviddennis

To: ElkGroveDan; Gophack

What a wonderful true story.

Congratualtions to both of you and many, many more happy anniversaries!

Keep making the world a better place! :)

19 posted on 08/21/2003 2:41:42 PM PDT by FairOpinion

To: ElkGroveDan; Gophack

Congratulations, Folks! Many more years of happiness to you both. :-)

20 posted on 08/21/2003 2:50:43 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ...&&&&&&&&&...SuPPort FRee Republic.....www.TomMcClintock.com..... NEVER FORGET)

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