I've heard that all it takes is a mugging...
No, not remotely. Ronald Reagan saw the light after being a labor democrat as late as 1948 when he cut an ad for Hubert Humphrey for US Senate and trashed the GOP controlled 80th Congress. He often said the democrat party left him (It changed so much from 1948 to 1962, when he officially switched parties? No sir, it did not.) but that was just a line. In a least one candid moment he admitted he was "part of the problem back then".
I'm saying if Joe Piscopo's parents had really instilled in him "libertarian mindedness", he never would have even considered joining the rat party, unless he was too stupid to know what the democrats stood for, what "libertarian" means, or both. I think that's what the issue is, Piscopo (and probably his parents), like so many Americans, has the political intelligence of a turnip and it's taken a President THIS horrible to make him start growing a few extra brain cells, forgive me if that's an arrogant pronouncement.
He's a patriot who's upset by democrat foreign policy? What did he say when Carter gave away the Panama canal? What did he say when Clinton let Osama get away and sent forces into Kosovo to get his johnson off the front page? He thinks democrats only recently started not caring about the poor? Hahahahhaha.
Don't get me wrong, I'm glad he's wised up enough to support Republicans this year (that puts him ahead of some here who seem to want Harry Reid to increase his Senate majority), but by the sound of it he has a long way to go to enlightenment, I hope he continues the journey.