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...
What are you doing to fight on the local level? That is where this type of belief belongs. hellary or barack hussein and their ilk will get us all killed. RINOs won’t, yet. I will fight them everyway I can, but in the general, I am voting to protecct my country.
Did he live in Cook County, Illinois (Chicago)?
Fall of 1986, 7th grade, when my public school tried to force a unanimous mock vote for a crooked rodent for Governor. Although still a liberal then, I campaigned for the Republican on a “good government” platform, to the chagrin of the principal. Moved right gradually, but was a Republican from that point on.
Officially became a Conservative who could distinguish between Republicans committed to the cause vs. RINOs committed to helping themselves and Democrats in 1998 when I cast a protest vote for a pro-Constitutional DINO candidate for Governor over our ethically-challenged RINO incumbent. Have been a Conservative first, Republican second ever since. Quite alarmed at the prospect that next year may be the first election in which I will not vote for our nominee for President if they put up a liberal RINO.
George McGovern was an honest man and so was Eugene McCarthy. As for the current crop of Democratic candidates - Diogenes could search for a hundred years ...
My family, as far as I know, had always been Democrats. I was the first registered Republican- and it horrified many! I was practically an outcast!
It was 1969, I registered Republican when Nixon and Viet Nam were bad words, and I remember going to the polling place right after. There was a group outside selling POW bracelets for $5. I bought one, and I still have it.
My sister registered Republican a few years later when she was 18. I think we’re still the only ones in the immediate family.
The instant I was conceived in my mother’s womb. :-)
I am what is known as a 9/11 Republican. There is a saying that a liberal mugged is a conservative. Well, it took 9/11 to wake me up—but I will never ever go back. I grow more conservative every day, and I will stay conservative till I die. God Bless America!
You are not alone—I voted for that bum, Clinton and that doofus, Gore. What a shame it took the slaughter of 3,000 of my fellow Americans to wake me up!
I became a conservative at conception. Currently 32 years old.
It was during Florida 2000 and then 9/11 that I lost all patience with the Democrat establishment. Before that, I knew that I disagreed with them, but held the illusion that they could be worked with and trusted on a certain level. But watching as absolutely nobody from that side raised as much as a peep of objection as Al Gore tried to steal the Presidency really opened my eyes.
True story: I was apolitical for the most part until I went to law school. It was at law school that I saw how flaming stalinist liberals are about any divergence of opinion. Speaking out in class against the PC line was death to your grades and would get you shouted at by spittle-mouthed raging libs. That drove not into being a Republican per se, but definitely a staunch conservative. That was twenty some years ago.
you and me both breddah
lol....found your button unintentionally.....sorry....Radical Republicans from Reconstruction have never been on my Christmas wishlist.....so my GOP affections are much more recent...like 1960s or Ike before
* what the heck was Cotton Mather bigoted about? (like I care....racism and bigotry just don’t get me all worked up anymore to be candid...it’s like the wolf crying peter nowadays...Mather was btw...pretty instrumental in proselytizing to slaves.....something not very common that early and hardly bigoted...(again..like I care)
I know it’s pure conjecture but I do find a line from Puritan sanctimony to today’s race baiting GOP social moderates
Merry Christmas from Dixie!
dang....i figured you for elephants on your pampers
Rutgers Law in Newark, eh? More than a few Republicans have been formed at Rutgers Law...
BINGO!!! I don't know where I picked it up but the nickname for the school was "The Little Red Schoolhouse" and it wasn't because it was quaint.
Actually, it was the description of the spittle-flecked raging libs that rang a bell...
My wife graduated in 1996, and has not been back since...
Have been ever since.
Jan 25 1960 the day i was born !
Converted by Sen. Barry Goldwater in 1963.
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