I voted for Peanut Man because of the pardon of Nixon, a vote which I regretted over the next few years of the Carter Administration, which were like dog years in that each one seemed like several.
By then I had grown up, married, had a child, and was working for a large corporation. I was outraged at the giveaway of the Panama Canal, the lack of intelligence in foreign policy, the betrayal of the Shah, the ineffective dealing with the hostage mess, not to mention the climbing interest rates, the energy crisis, and other assorted idiocies.
I showed up when the polls opened to vote for Ronald Reagan, and I have never voted for another democrat since. LOL!
However, my early years are a good reminder of how liberals think (which isn't much) and how easily they fool themselves into thinking they are the "voice of the people."
Even Reagan himself was a Democrat, and there exists (I'm told) a tape of Reagan introducing Hubert Humphrey at a Democratic function, the Reagan speech being described as "quintessential liberal stuff." Hard to believe, but there it is.I know a couple of intelligent liberals, and I just can't fathom the unthinking disconnect from what I see as reality. A Christian Boy Scout leader who is a union man from a Yellow Dog Democrat family. Unwilling to know that anti-scout sentiment is rampant in the Democrat Party and nonexistent among Republicans.
Don't feel bad, Miss Marple. Mr. MaGoo was the first presidential vote I cast too. Ah, to be young and stupid again! :-)