What Did It Take To Bring You to Your Senses?

by Little Miss Attila on December 8, 2008

Final thought — Accelerated Churchillian Development — Every liberal at 20 is a possible conservative at 25. Engage fearlessly ! —Michael Pleahy

He tweeted that, and I thought it was rather good.

Five year, though? That would require a person to move at quite a pace, which practically requires a “road to Damascus” moment. Like, well . . . when David Horowitz realized that the bookkeeper for the Black Panthers had been murdered, and none of his lefty friends thought the matter should really be investigated too closely.

I should say one should start to question it all by 35—45 latest.

Of course, I have a friend who was an Army LRRP in Vietnam, and despite his passion for the Second Amendment, managed to vote for President Clinton twice. Twice.

He’s a staunch union man, and he was never going to vote for anyone without a “D” after their name. I believe he was still in his 50s—just barely—when the Democrats tried to foist John Kerry upon him.

That did it.

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Leofwende December 9, 2008 at 2:31 pm

For the record, I am who he was talking about. A budding almost-liberal at 19 (due to influences from friends in college), who took a firm right turn during the 2004 elections, which was also around the time I started blogging. I was, let’s see…21 at the time. Thanks to a couple of new common-sense conservative-type friends of mine, and my conservative grandfather, who I always thought was one of the smartest people alive.

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