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I was a radical Dem until I was 35 years old. That is when I entered a 12 step program and began the process of cleaning up my life.

That program put the emphasis on me and what I was doing wrong, including my lack of faith in God.

I began to see that the world wasn't created to satisfy me and that I was created to satisfy the world and that I had a duty to live standing on my hind feet.

I changed my party registration to Repub in January 1989, just a few days after Reagan left office. I believe that if Reagan had not been president I would still be a Dem. I got a chance to see him speak in March of that year. I took my 5 year old son with me and got a picture of him with Reagan in the background. Now he can tell his grandkids about the day he was in the same room as a giant of history and have the proof.

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I see that Ronald Reagan was key for a lot of people. A useful lesson for Republicans today. If you want to have a lot of Republicans, be more like Ronald Reagan.

I don’t see anybody saying that Bob Dole brought them into the party.