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And we were a lot younger then and not political at all.

At the risk of being nosy, I'm curious about what caused your and your husband's political development. Was it just the gradual 'growing up' associated with the assumption of adult responsibility or was a particular event or person involved?

"was a particular event or person involved?"

LOL, I'm happy to answer this, because yes, there was a "magic moment". Hubby is still not political, I can't even get his fat behind to the polls, but he's more aware, so I think there's something about just growing older that makes one politically aware - call it a maturation process, call it "I just don't care what the Rolling Stones are doing anymore".

For me tho', I really did have an amazing moment. Firstly, I was always a pretty conservative person, just born that way, I guess; and I was ALWAYS pro-life; but for a long time I drifted around the left. I think this is pretty typical for a white middle-class gal from NYC. I even briefly joined some (Trotskyist!)commie party, which I left (after 6 weeks, at the age of 16) when they told me "smoking pot is not good for the party". It was 1976, and that was BS.

Probably 20 years later, working, supporting my little pro-life child, I went to the newstand to buy the Village Voice, as I regularly did, and on the cover was some undecipherable creature. Definately an Asian, or maybe an Hispanic, but who knew if a guy or a gal? A man with little perky breasts. Disgusting. I recoiled in horror, and still wanting something to read...there was National Review on the magazine rack. Amazing to me (WFB was a childhood hero of mine) that I had never heard of it before. At that point, it was all over but the shouting. By me. I shout real good.

Good bless WFB and God bless FR!