FORMER LIBERAL FReepers...I have a theory.

bigjoesaddle

[bigjoesaddle]

I am a former Liberal that voted for Clinton the first time (head droopong in shame), and I wonder how many other people like me there are out there.

Also, I have a theory to discuss. I have NEVER met a person who grew up a Conservative, then switched to the Democrat Party AFTER COLLEGE! Many switch during college, because of the rebellion aspect of going against their "Dads politics", etc, but after entering the real world, a person NEVER switches to Liberal. The theory basicly is that many Liberals, no matter how old they are, are STILL rebelling, and basicly can't see that their ways never succeed.

There is also the belief that "I am a good person, and all I want to do is good for the world and the people in the world, THEREFORE EVERYTHING I BELIEVE IS RIGHT, BECAUSE IT IS BASSED ON "GOODNESS". They don't realise that, just because you are "good", doesn't mean you're "right".

[jjm2111]

LOL!

[CyberCowboy777]

a person NEVER switches to Liberal

There is McCain....Politicians may not count though.

[Semaphore Heathcliffe]

ping

[Howlin]

[Howlin]

ROFLMAO!

[Howlin]

Quote of the day?

[RJayneJ]

What are you nominating? I couldn't find another post by Constitution Day. };^D)

[Constitution Day]

I'll tell ya this right now.
When I'm on my death-bed, I will resign as a Repub and register as a RAT.
It's better that a RAT dies, than a good Rrepublican.

[Howlin]

Oh, sorry. #38!

[Benson_Carter]

anyone who is ashamed to have voted for Perot should put that to rest.

Vote your conscience... if the Republicans offered a Conservative, you'd have voted for them.

I am sick of people who equate Perot voters with Clintonites.

ENOUGH, RINO APOLOGISTS!!!

[Miss Marple]

Ha! I, too, voted for (gasp) Carter. It was that old "Rule of Law" mantra, you know. I didn't know what to do because I liked Ford, and I really was mistrustful of Carter. So I ended up, to my everlasting shame, voting for Carter.

Never again will I allow one issue to sway my vote like that. The Carter years were sort of like the Clinton years, only compressed into only 4 years of untold misery.

I was working as a coal geologist then and I was paying attention to the economic stuff, energy, foreign policy, etc. (too bad I didn't do this BEFORE the election) and it seems like every darn day there was more bad news.

Thermostats set at 65 degrees, hostage crisis,loss of the Panama Canal, Afghanistan invaded, no Olympics, no Christmas lights, high interest rates, and CARTER BLAMED US!!!

At least, having gotten the message with Carter, I didn't buy the new, improved model when Clinton appeared on the scene. By then I had voted for Reagan twice and Dad Bush, and I was sick that Clinton got elected.

At any rate, I made sure my kids understood the weasels of the DNC, and now even my daughter, an art major surrounded by WORSE than Goths (showing my age here) voted for George W. Bush.

[American Soldier]

I'm from a blue collar family and voted even enthusiastically went to see Clinton speak once. Joining the Army wasn't enough to make a conservative out of me - it took 8 years of Clinton.

I think former democrats might in many cases would make better than average republican political candidates in the future, as they often have the background to resist the "Country Club Republican" label. We need people who can charm like Clinton charmed and with whom average Americans can easily identify (as I see it this is a weakness of the GOP and of Bush the First in particular) but who aren't merely out to manipulate the public and make a career out of politics (as are 90% of left wing politicians).

[Amelia]

When I registered to vote at age 18, I registered as a Democrat, because living in the Deep South, it was the only way to vote in local primaries....

Fortunately I'm now in Georgia which doesn't even let you register with a party...but sometimes you still have to get a Democratic ticket if you want a say about the school board, etc.

[deport]

In 88, I voted for Bush, 92 Clinton, 96 Clinton, 2000 Bush.

Your voting pattern represents the potential voter that the candidates or parties seek to entice during the campaigns..... The party faithful will be there for the party in most cases so they try to entice the independent or swing voter to cast their ballot with them in the election.

[terilyn]

Isn't it interesting that the swing voters win elections.

Bush, Clinton, Clinton, Bush

[DM1]

I was always a conservative. It just made sense to me at an early age and I stuck with it. Of course many people had always stated that i was extremely Mature for my age at just about every period of my life.

[ko_kyi]

I had a similar experience. My dad was a lifelong democrat because he was a Union guy. Funny, the union thing was the ONLY reason he was Demo. My dad never realized that in the 60s and 70s the party decided to leave HIM. I was moderately liberal in college, voted for Clinton in 1992, then started to come around. I am NOT on board with all things Republican, as I have very libertarian leanings. But I thank Bill Clinton every day for showing me why I should not be a liberal (sorry the rest of the world had to suffer while I learned my lesson). I studied Mass Communication in college, and it was the liberal bias of the press that really opened my eyes. Liberal bias is like a magic eye drawing. Once you finally see it, you can't stop seeing it.

I think there is something to your theory, bigjoesaddle.

[RJayneJ]

Got it. Thanks!

[bigjoesaddle]

Liberal bias is like a magic eye drawing. Once you finally see it, you can't stop seeing it.

Exactly, great analogy.