Heh, heh...I remember that.
,,"all the way into the hanger"
Posted on 06/01/2006 3:57:17 PM PDT by Slyfox
Read Hayek and Ayn Rand...
I was not a Democrat but like you, I was dismayed that a qualified, honest candidate like Paul Tsongas was rejected in favor of that crooked lawyer from Arkansas. I remember that I was greatly disturbed by that. I think that marked a turning point -- the Democrat Party officially became the property of Marxists and there was no room for democratic leftists -- only room for Marxists and various pressure groups.
Heh, heh...I remember that.
,,"all the way into the hanger"
I cast my first vote for Nixon while my husband (freshly back from Viet Nam) cast his first vote for McGovern. Even though we knew we were erasing each others vote, it meant a great deal to us to exercise our right to vote.
I have converted my husband and we both always vote for the most conservative person running.
Never. Not even in high school. My father raised me right.
Hey, I am thinking that since the GOP wants to move left we need to form a group within the GOP to move it back to the right.... maybe we can call it the Free Republicans?
Hey Slyfox:
Amazing thread (again)! I was once a staunch pro-choice liberal because I thought they were more "fair" than the republicans. Once I actually thought about my indoctrination in public school and finally "woke up". Thank God for Reagan, and Rush Limbaugh> These are two of the greates Americans that ever lived.
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I studied history. Paricularly social and economic history, and not the PC slanted pablum, either. Primary documents and pre-PC stuff. And so the kid who came of age in the early 70s learned that rhetoric is nice, but reality bites.
I also grew up in the one party South...but by the time of the McGovern presidential nomination, I knew that what the national party was saying was not good for America. Before that, I can blame adolescent lack of wisdom.
Probably none - or less than 10 percent. Gay issues/marriage is one issue where I disagree with most conservatives. I also think we do need to provide some sort of safety net for the weak/helpless/disabled - I think a big difference is what the definitions of those three words are.
True, let's amend that to the odds are infinitesimally small that I will ever again pull the lever for a Democrat. Yes, I would vote for Zell and in fact if Ben Nelson were running against Chuck Hagel in Ct, wink-wink, I would vote for Nelson. Fortunately I don't have those tortured choices to make up here.
I considered myself a liberal from my college days right up until my early 40's. I always thought the Republicans wanted to control us and that the Dems stood for freedom. Even so, I always knew that socialism and anything like it were inherently wrong, so I generally voted Republican, even though I stupidly thought I was a "liberal."
Now I understand that while Republicans may wish to control some things, the Democrats, as the party of the Left, want to control everything.
I made the change to "conservative" in mid life, as I began to take on responsibility and raise a family...and pay taxes and deal with government rules. Reading the editorial page of the WSJ was a help too, and a revelation. I was already a committed "conservative" by the time I read "The Road to Serfdom," which really clarified the issues for me.
These days, I'd call myself a "classical liberal," which I interpret as meaning a libertarian who also believes in common sense and respects traditional values.
I just stumbled accross FreeRepublic one day while surfing the net and looking for arguments against our then president Clinton. Was completely transfixed and lurked for about a year, fascinated... finally signed up, I couldn't stand it anymore when HairOfTheDog and some others were on a thread talking about the release of the new "Fellowship of the Ring" movie, about which I was tremendously excited, being a huge Tolkien fanatic. The idea of a Tolkien thread on a conservative web site was beyond my ability to resist.
I've been kind of addicted ever since, and met some very nice people as well. And the varied subject matter that comes up here is unbelievable. For instance, the art threads attract more posters, and more educated ones, than the art threads on most of the actual art sites. The whole thing has been kind of special.
~smiles~
And that Tolkien thread may have gotten a little off topic, but it's still goin :~D
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