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Welcome home, brother.
1 posted on 02/19/2002 8:59:12 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
I was a teen-age commie

So was I. Thankfully, exposure to free-market economics and a subcription to The Nation woke me to the true nature of the Left.

Ten years on from my left-wing dalliance, I subscribe to Liberty, am an NRA member (yes, I was once part of the "let's ban all guns" crowd) and post on Free Republic.

2 posted on 02/19/2002 9:05:40 AM PST by Clemenza
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After a long journey, I now believe a self-righteous liberal with a cause is more dangerous than a Hell's Angel with an attitude.

Auburn, eh? And did he have this revelation before or after his sentencing? ;)

Ah, well - they say the first step is admitting you have a problem....

3 posted on 02/19/2002 9:06:12 AM PST by general_re
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I now believe a self-righteous liberal with a cause is more dangerous than a Hell's Angel with an attitude.

A self-righteous liberal is the most dangerous person on god's green earth.

Greetings from Geneva!

4 posted on 02/19/2002 9:08:50 AM PST by X-USAF
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"every dollar business made came at the expense of the poor...."

This one is actually true. It seems to me that we (as pro-market force) have to admit this right in their (the anti-market forces') faces - market economy is unfair to prols, however, it is the best deal prols (including myself) can ever get.

And about JFK, as far as I understand he was the first class hawk and he was deeply pro-market person.

5 posted on 02/19/2002 9:09:25 AM PST by alex
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Whew, I just made it! After a long journey, I now believe a self-righteous liberal with a cause is more dangerous than a Hell's Angel with an attitude.

His journey will be complete if he becomes a FReeper.

6 posted on 02/19/2002 9:13:45 AM PST by b4its2late
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Good article, but I have to tell you the Churchill quote is not correct. Too bad, I had always believed that story, although I had heard it in a number of different ways.

Anyway, here is the gospel from www.winstonchurchill.org:

"If you're not a liberal when you're 25, you have no heart. If you're not a conservative by the time you're 35, you have no brain." There is no record of anyone hearing Churchill say this. Paul Addison of Edinburgh University makes this comment: "Surely Churchill can't have used the words attributed to him. He'd been a Conservative at 15 and a Liberal at 35! and would he have talked so disrespectfully of Clemmie, who is generally thought to have been a lifelong Liberal.

7 posted on 02/19/2002 9:15:03 AM PST by meisterbrewer
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Well?
Did it happen before 40?
9 posted on 02/19/2002 9:24:00 AM PST by Publius6961
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Churchill was wrong: I never believed that cr*p, that someone else should profit from my work.
And I don't believe the author of this article was ever a Liberal - those people never change, they just become school-teachers!
10 posted on 02/19/2002 9:24:06 AM PST by Redbob
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Glad you saw the light, I know I did.

In my early 20's, the first time I was able to vote and wasn't as political as I am now, I voted for Clinton. Yes, I regret it deeply. I soon learned in my mid to late twenties what liars liberals are. I started listening to Rush and our local afternoon a.m. talk show host, Mark Belling. I learned to see through the b.s. the Clinton and all of their left wing nut jobs were feeding the American people. At any rate, I'm proud to be Republican and feel sorry liberals as they don't know any better and need garbage spoon fed to them on a daily basis.

God Bless Ronald Reagan!

11 posted on 02/19/2002 9:24:24 AM PST by MotleyGirl70
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ROGER HARE

Any relation to Roger Rabbit?

17 posted on 02/19/2002 9:57:14 AM PST by stanz
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Churchill said: "If you are not a socialist by age 21, you have no heart. If you are not a conservative by 40, you have no brain."

I have no heart. Watch out Social Security Recipients, for I am Generation X.
21 posted on 02/19/2002 10:24:06 AM PST by Maelstrom
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don't forget........
KILL A COMMIE FOR MOMMY!

some books you should read:
'i was a slave in russia' by john noble
'a day in the life of ivan denisovitch' by alexander solzhenitsyn
'red scarf girl' by ji li jiang

joe mc carthy was RIGHT!!

24 posted on 02/19/2002 10:35:12 AM PST by rockfish59
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I'm a little younger than this writer. I remember despising both Newt Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh. Mostly because that was the "acceptable" thing to do. All the celebrities that I tried to emulate said they evil and greedy and hated women. Of course, that was back when the most important thing in my life was to be "cool." (It literally turned my stomach to write the previous sentence.)

Later on, I discovered that following the morality that my parents taught me was actually a nice way to live. I discovered the real truth--you cannot be happy UNLESS you are moral. That pushed me into the "independent" mode.

What really made me wake up was moving from West Texas to Northern New Mexico. There I discovered people physically, loudly protesting what happened to their ancestors five hundred years ago. I saw people complaining that there was no affordable housing yet in the same breath demand people not to build on their own private land because (and I'm not making this up) it will spoil their "view." I saw many families owning land they had bought at a premium and weren't allowed to build on it.

Public works were mired in bureaucracy. A bridge that had broken ground in the 60's was still unbuilt. Protests everywhere, every day by government workers. In other words, a socialist utopia.

We didn't last a year. When my husband was told in a bar, "You Texans are losers! We kicked your ass at the Alamo," that was the last straw. My husband took a 30% pay cut so we could to come back to Texas. Well worth it.

25 posted on 02/19/2002 10:56:46 AM PST by stands2reason
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Whoa, for a minute there, I thought this was a new hollyweird movie of Hillary's younger years!
30 posted on 02/19/2002 1:11:50 PM PST by UCANSEE2
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