Posted on 12/11/2007 4:57:57 AM PST by gridlock
I was looking at a Hillary thread today, which said that if she won the nomination, a lot of Democrats would abandon the Democrat Party. It reminded me of when I finally left the Democrats and "turned to the Dark Side", as my family says. It struck me that FReepers must have a lot of interesting stories about how they came to be here, and that these stories should be told.
Please post your testimony below. I'll start...
I was born into a conservative democrat family. I liked Reagan and he was the first president I voted for. I became a full-fledged conservative in the mid 80s when the homosexual lobby blamed Reagan for AIDS and the MSM never shot that assumption down. I became a Republican after clinton was elected as did all of my immediate family.
I gotta think there is a special section of Heaven just for Chiefs and Master Sergeants. It is the funnest part of Heaven.
Absolutely!!!!
They are both unaffiliated right now, but neither of them like President Bush very much. My mother has no idea who to vote for in next year’s Presidential race, and my father kind of likes Biden, but can’t really explain why.
I’m currently registered as a Democrat, just because they are the “least corrupt” of the three-party system that thrives here in Waterbury; plus my in-laws are involved in party politics here, and they are all Democrats. Still, as far as I know, about 90% of the Dems here in Waterbury are pro-life.
I have no desire of ever running for any political office, so what party I am registered with doesn’t relly matter, in my opinion. I don’t donate any money to national or state campaigns or political parties, and only occasionally donate to acquaintances who are running for office at the municipal level.
Here in the People’s Socialist Republic of Illinois we have two rotten parties; the corrupt Democrat Party and the inept and often corrupt GOP. Coming off the liberal corrupt George Ryan, this state’s politics stink on both sides.
There are a couple Democrats here who are very good at their job and liberalism is not a significant concern. Sect of State, Jesse White is an example and has my vote.
The joke that the Illinois GOP tried in the Illinois Governor race last time was embarrassing. No vote was appropriate there.
There have been times in Illinois that I have simply not checked either box when both candidates are libs. I will NOT be a party lever-puller.
I believe I have selected the GOP presidential candidate all but once (I was very young). I will not vote for a joke like a Paul, should hell freeze over in the GOP primaries. We have the flaming libs Durban and Obama so you won’t see any “D” votes from me there. My US Rep is a moderate/lib Dem and I would like her out. I hope a good conservative candidate emerges to oppose her. Before her we had an good conservative who overstayed his office and became invisible(over 30 years).
The US and Panama reached an accord to transfer the Panama Canal by the year 2000.
I first realized that I was a Conservative/Republican during the Robert Bork hearings. I was 23 years old at the time and was struck by the grotesque unfairness of the whole proceeding. I was particularly shocked by the hypocrisy of my then Senator Ted Kennedy. For years and years the man had complained that people needed to forgive him for killing a woman at Chappaquiddick, but now here he was demanding to know why Robert Bork should be forgiven for an unenforceable clause in his house's deed, put there by previous owners years before he ever bought the house, that said the house could not be sold to Jews. That was quite offensive to me. I was also greatly offended by the rest of the Liberals who, at the time, were so proud of their unfairness and dishonesty and I reached the conclusion at that time that Liberalism not only held nothing for me but was morally, ethically and intellectually bankrupt.
But that did not quite seal the deal for me and Conservatism. What sealed it, for me, was when Ronald Reagan, after Judge Bork had been defeated, strode to the press room lectern and confidently announced that he was disappointed that Judge Bork had not been confirmed and that he felt it was now his duty to find someone who was - and he leaned in a little closer to the mike for emphasis - "equally unacceptable." I remember standing up and cheering. Here was a man who stood up for what he believed in. Here was a man who stood on principle, class and integrity. Here was a man who would stand up to the bullies and say "go ahead, make my day!" I knew at that very moment, I was a Conservative.
Ever since I got a chance to vote for AuH2O
Actually, that’s my date of birth. ;-)
Same here. I was at least intellectually honest enough with myself to admit I didn't know what either party stood for as a teenager, so I'd registered as an Independent. After Carter I was so disgusted with all politics I don't think I voted again until Bush #1. When Slick Willie was elected that turned the tide for me and I registered as a Republican.
I think Biden represents, for many people, a responsible and serious politician. Everybody else on the Democrat side is a circus sideshow freak, as far as I can tell. In that field, Biden stands out. Dodd, being from CT, might be too familiar for your father to support...
Maybe we should send this thread to the GOP.
Thank you for acknowledging this fraud. In order to keep my sanity (and that of a friend at the time) I spent far too much time on FR. I'll never forget it was on Friday after the election that Robert E Cook posted his first analysis of the election to show that Democrats were attempting to steal the election.
Every day there was more and more evidence to substantiate the fact that they were indeed trying to steal the election. Unfortunately, if a lie gets repeated enough people begin to believe it and Democrats and their friends in the MSM have repeated the lie over and again that it was Bush who was attempting to steal the election.
Now I assume that Democrats will attempt to steal every election. To a Democrat, the end justifies the means.
Before I made it official I suppose I was well on my way after I read ANTHEM by Ayn Rand in 1977.
Sorry to say, you were born on an inauspicious day...
Please speak to them soon and give us an update.
Actually I thought that happened on August 10.
Just remember... If it isn't close, they can't cheat!
OK. You're right. I read about it in the New York Times on August 11.
Well, never fear. I am sure Jimmy Carter did something equally stupid on August 11 of that year.
They have indeed but, at least in part, that is caused by SO many republicans and conservatives who think that voting is all there is to the political process. Voting is important to be sure but that act comes at the very end of the process and if that is ALL you do you have not had the effect you otherwise could have had.
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