S'cuse me if I don't buy that.
"Starting conservative" and ending up liberal is about as common as West Berliners scaling the Wall in a desperate attempt to defect to the East.
I’m not asking you to buy it. I’m just telling you what happened. If my posting history here is still available you can look it up. I was a GRPL member in good standing back during the Great Calvinist/Mormon wars too.