[Baynative]

I became a conservative because I was lured into being a liberal in college and listening to their philosophy drove me up the wall. I came to the conclusion that one group of liberals had no center or direction in their lives and would believe in anything and follow anyone that gave them purpose and a sense of belonging.

The other smaller group were arrogant and manipulative and simply used the liberal talking points and agenda of organizing or controlling people to assume power and enrich themselves in one way or another.

In a conversation with one of the organizers I met who was a mover in the campaign to get marijuana legalization on the ballot he confided, "I'd never smoke that crap, I've got more important ideas that these people and their votes can help me with." I think he was planning on a career similar to John Kerry and John McCain - use the movement and it's connections to marry up and then get elected and become a life time leach.

[newheart]

The other smaller group were arrogant and manipulative and simply used the liberal talking points and agenda of organizing or controlling people to assume power and enrich themselves in one way or another.

John Kerry is a good example. Self-disclosure: In my own pre-conservative era I marched in DC in 1971. I remembering seeing Kerry in his role as a leader in the VVAW and was surprised to find that he already had a coterie of "protectors" around him that would keep the hoi polloi away. It is never about the people or Fraternité. It is always about power.

[VRW Conspirator]

I became a conservative because...

Bump. I became a conservative because of my upbringing, my free choice, my intellect and most of all, Christian conversion.

[Slyfox]

I became a conservative because I was lured into being a liberal in college and listening to their philosophy drove me up the wall.

Same here. I didn't know what I was but I knew for dang sure I was not like them.

Thank God for Ronald Reagan!