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"Not by hectoring", "time and patience"

These elements seem to be common to those of us who have had folks come around. Anyone else have a story?

I should add that I myself am an ex-Dem. I voted for Dems because I was a union member and by god, union members voted for Dems...even though I disagreed with the direction the Dems were going in over the years. I'll admit it didn't take much to push me over to the Republican side, because I was a rare breed: a very conservative Dem. But I was, like many Dems, basically indifferent to politics and ignorant about many key issues.

Here's where the rise of conservative talk shows and web-sites played a key hand in my conversion. In short, the more I became informed about the way things really are (and not what the Big Media, The N.Y. Times and other liberal organs say it is) , the easier it was for me to make the decision to leave the party I had identified with for thirty years. Information is critical to convincing Dems of the wrongness of their political and social convictions. (And believe me after discovering the facts through diligent searching, it was a shock to find out that conservatives were right about nearly everything that afflicted the country, and libs were wrong about practically everything.) Again patience is needed. But it can be done: My wife and I are proof of that.