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My 'journey' from left to right was not dissimilar. I guess like most kids in their late teens, I tended to be liberal. That morphed into apolitical. It was the '92 presidential election that woke me up. As apolitical as I was, I couldn't help but notice the blatant bias in the media, how they were all for Clinton and against Bush. Having begun college as a journalism major, where impartiality and objectivity were sacrosanct, I said to myself, "What the hell is going on here?" And thus, the rightward move began.

My journey from left to right was pretty simple. From a Gen-X kid with older Democratic parents that lived through the depression, I'd hear stuff like "Don't buy a house, because you can't guarantee that you'll be fully employed for 30 years to make the payments." At about 12 I asked, "but what if you rent like we do. You still have to come up with the money at the end of the month and there's no equity with renting."

Then there was the summerized politics dispensed to me: "Democrats are for the working man and Republicans are for the rich".

At about 16 I decided to start researching and making my own decisions on what was correct. My first ballots were mixed, but by 20 I was casting a straight GOP ticket. Hasn't changed yet. Remember listening to some funny right win guy on AM radio at night 1200 miles away in Sacramento. Don't know what happen to him. Rush something-or-another...

Then I met my wife who was a Libertarian. I moved to Libertarian politics. Then, I started on Ayn Rand. We both dropped Libertarian politics. I voted for Andre Marrou. I'm sorry for that.

My political thoughts: Always crush Lefties. It's a long battle. I don't expect to see lefty ideas crushed in my lifetime. I can live with that. Ronald Reagan was CLEARLY the greatest President of the 20th Century. Rand's ideas will win out in the end. Things will be great again, but it will take a lot of time and we do live in interesting times.