Saw a link on Drudge in 1998. Hit it, lurked for almost a year, then joined.
I came across this site, from Drudge, (I think?) during the Monica mess, and would lurk rarely from time to time. I peeked in on election night and kept coming back during Al Gore’s days of hell after election 2000, and finally decided to join a year later, almost exactly. I’ve been here since 12/2001.