People across the board get conservative real fast when they elect bleeding heart liberals who get the country in deep excrement in less than three years. I learned real fast with Carter; voted for him in a vapid haze of just liking the guy’s projected personality; then gradually our pocketbook - as well as the whole mood and morale of the country got dragged into the gutter because of Carter’s disastrous foreign policy. Double digit unemployment, double digit interest rates, gas lines, freezing in cold houses conserving “energy”, being warned to forego Christmas lights in order to conserve “energy”, being chided by Mrs. Carter to “wear a sweater and turn the thermostat down”, watching the depressing news from Iran day after day on t.v. with hostages being abused and paraded in the streets in the face of the impotent Carter Administration (the gang that couldn’t shoot straight). After four years of little “fireside sweater talks” in which the President took me to the woodshed and told me I was just in a “malaise” and selfish, when Reagan came along and told me I wasn’t in a “malaise”, that the Democrat Party and their President were the ones in the malaise. I voted for Reagan, and haven’t looked back; but the Republican Party needn’t think that I’m an automatic checkmark beside the name of any liberal they wish to put forth. What shall I do? I don’t know yet, any more than I knew until Reagan came along way back then. We’ll know when we know what we shall do.
>We’ll know when we know what we shall do.
A Great post. We went to different schools together. :)