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.
About 1986. I voted for Reagan in ‘84. It just took me a couple of years to change my registration.
When did YOU become a Republican?
When I got my first paycheck!!!!!
With Ronald Reagan, not that I was really anything else other than maybe a borderline anarchist.
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.
I had no one moment of enlightenment......
I was always a Republican!
And have voted for Republicans in every election I could.