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To: gridlock; GOP_Raider; b4its2late; Babu; backhoe; Bahbah; bannie; BellStar; beyond the sea; ...

Ping to a great thread!

I wrote a piece on this once, but I turned on the television while I was working security at the Texas Department of Transportation. This was a swing shift.

I had migrated up to the third floor in sheer boredom. I believe it was a Friday night. I turned on the television and there was Rush Limbaugh. It was the specific show where Rush was talking about the Clinton dog, and then suddenly, the engineer placed Chelsea Clinton’s picture on the screen.

Rush laughed as the audience laughed. It was that comedic moment that kept me tuned into the show instead of turning the channel. As I listened, his points began to make sense. Later, I found his radio program, and in the months that followed, I began to transition to conservatism.

So, I guess I’d have to say that if Rush had not been on television, it might’ve been longer before my evolution to conservatism. There is no dollar amount that I can equivocate in escaping the jaws of liberalism.

So, as always, thank you, sir. I appreciate it more than you know.


311 posted on 12/12/2007 7:58:00 PM PST by writer33 (The U.S. Constitution defines a conservatie and Rush Limbaugh knows it.)
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To: writer33

About 1986. I voted for Reagan in ‘84. It just took me a couple of years to change my registration.


313 posted on 12/12/2007 7:59:31 PM PST by Tribune7 (Dems want to rob from the poor to give to the rich)
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To: writer33

When did YOU become a Republican?

When I got my first paycheck!!!!!


315 posted on 12/12/2007 8:03:34 PM PST by NYTexan (Have met more Freepers than I can count. I am blessed to call many of them friends)
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To: writer33

With Ronald Reagan, not that I was really anything else other than maybe a borderline anarchist.


316 posted on 12/12/2007 8:09:16 PM PST by SouthTexas (Have a Merry and Blessed Christmas.)
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To: writer33
In 1987 or 1988, a friend of mine asked if I wanted to go to a college campus rally for Michael Dukakis. I do not remember what Dukakis was saying or who he was pandering to, but I do remember having a heated argument with someone in the crowd who was bashing our military. I was apolitical at that time and remained so until 1999 when my step-brother turned me on to Rush Limbaugh. But I knew from 1987 that at least one Dukakis supporter was totally misguided. Then I came to understand just how bad it really was.

My journey has become complete after studying Economics as an undergraduate...it has caused me to see government as a problem regarding most things. I look for market-based solutions to the issues in our society so that that the US can reverse this trend of government encroachment [even in some social matters that some Republicans fret over] and get back to the business of liberty. I now embrace the tenth amendment because it promotes competition amongst the states and decentralizes power and wish that the federal budget would be cut to just those things that the US Constitution authorized.

339 posted on 12/13/2007 3:42:23 AM PST by LowCountryJoe (I'm a Paleo-liberal: I believe in freedom; am socially independent and a borderline fiscal anarchist)
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To: writer33

I had no one moment of enlightenment......
I was always a Republican!

And have voted for Republicans in every election I could.


360 posted on 12/13/2007 8:20:36 PM PST by JulieRNR21 (Trust the Lord with all your heart.......)
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