Conservatives: A Love Story
by Jimmy AroneMy wife loves me.
Despite the fact I’m an actor, she loves me. She thinks I’m the most talented guy on the planet, even as work continues to dry up. The eternal optimist to my ever lovin’ pessimist. I’m a Flintstone while she’s a beauty with a heart of gold. I make her laugh. She loves my bits. (A particular favorite is, my DeNiro, as Jake LaMotta, performing Kenny Loggins, “House at Pooh Corner”). FAHGETAHBOUT IT! My wife’s a peach.
Lately, however, there’ve been some clouds brewing on the horizon and it’s possible I may have had a slight hand in creating the situation. I’ve been listening to her as she’s watching the tube, talking about how Hannity is so cute. On other occasions, how the humble founder of Big Hollywood, Andrew Breitbart, has such a quick wit. I mean, I can handle her getting jazzed about Dennis Prager but this is new stuff for me. For the longest time, she was just so liberal. To this day, she’s a registered Democrat. I asked myself, how did this happen? How did she go from being a liberal woman from Buffalo to being charmed by the likes of O’Reilly? As I mentioned, I may be somewhat to blame because truth be told, at one time I was a liberal guy from Beantown. A man who voted for both Carter and Clinton. There, I said it.
Somewhere along the line, I began slowly waking up. I started to look at things a little differently. Events were happening in our country that began getting my attention, coincidentally right around the time my wife and I met in 1991. First up were the hearings for Clarence Thomas followed by The World Trade Center bombing in 1993. Needless to say, I didn’t vote for Clinton in ‘96. I chose to sit it out. I was frustrated. In retrospect, I believe the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole, in the summer of 2000, was the last straw. I was angry and didn’t like the way our country seemed to be blamed when we were the ones who were attacked. Our sailors were murdered yet we were at fault? No way.
9/11 happened and like millions of other Americans, I was never quite the same. I found myself asking questions, looking for answers. It was difficult. We were a country at war. A nation divided. I began to notice the way certain stories were reported in the MSM and would look for alternative sources to get information. The Internet was a good place to plug into. I discovered Oriana Fallaci, David Horowitz and Thomas Sowell. I would listen to talk radio, in particular, Dennis Prager, who seemed so clear. He made sense. The fact that he had been a Democrat for so many years and was now a Republican interested me.
Hearing Ron Silver speak at the RNC in 2004 was a big one. I remember thinking, wasn’t this actor a Democrat? A liberal? How could this be? Yet there he stood, speaking with such passion. Ron Silver made it cool for me to call myself conservative. As a result, I began looking once again at Charlton Heston and Ronald Reagan. These men were the real deal. Men of courage, conviction and I related to their values. I was ashamed of myself for having bad mouthed them years before. I began to ask, how could I have been so blind? The answer was easy. I was growing up.
One other small incident happened during the election of 2004. My wife and I were visiting with family (I’ll keep it loose as not to upset anyone). I remember watching a program on CNN with a relative. Something about President Bush and then I heard those words, “Republicans are evil.” It just hit me. I kept my mouth shut. For some reason, in that moment, all I thought of was my Republican brother-in-law, Johnny, one of the most decent men I know. A man of integrity and someone I respect. Yet, I was silent knowing full well, if I opened my mouth, there was a good chance all hell would break loose. I kept quiet and didn’t like the feeling. It was personal. From that moment on I was pretty much done with liberals. (I wish to add, not all liberals, just the ones who pretend to be liberals but in truth are leftists. I despise leftists).
As a result, I began finding myself being drawn more and more to conservatives. During the 2008 election, I literally was coming home. I tried to educate myself best as I could on the candidates and the issues. My wife and I talked a lot. We were united as a couple. What became clear was the fact that many of our family members and friends didn’t seem to quite share our points of view. On one occasion, I was actually accused, by a liberal friend, of brainwashing my wife. There was a great deal of tension in the air. People were angry, still raging about the “stolen” elections of 2000.
Our country was divided and the historic election seemed to bring out the best and worst in people. The stakes were high. When my wife and I let it be known we were supporting McCain/Palin, it wasn’t good. We were drinking the kool-aid (so we were told). A particular challenge for me, as an actor, was to stay on the high road whenever the subject of politics came up with liberal friends. Man, it was rough.
The attacks on Sarah Palin made it even more difficult for me as I resented the hypocrisy of so called progressives, feminists and other like minded souls, who stood by while many in the MSM viciously went after her. Screw politics, I thought, enough is enough. I wanted to fight back, tear the faces off these miserable mutts. My Italian Irish American blood was boiling. Through it all my wife was there to help me stay focused. Keep my cool. Although, I must say to this day, I still get a little pissed off when I hear someone go after Governor Palin. She’s a decent woman, who I believe will come back wiser and stronger to lead this country on another day.
Ultimately we got through the election. The waters calmed briefly and on January 20, 2009, Barack Obama was sworn in as our 44th President of the United States. History was made and a new day in America had begun.
What will happen now? God only knows. I believe, as Americans, we will persevere and find our way back home. Time will tell.
As for those clouds on the horizon, I’m really just fine with my wife. It’s cool. Hannity, Breitbart, Prager, O’Reilly and all the rest of those guys are good men. As I said, I’m somewhat (proudly) responsible for her taking a different look at how she views politics, although it was always her call. Alice to my Ralph Kramden. It’s been an interesting journey along the way and I look forward to better days.
My wife loves me.
Despite the fact I’m an actor and a conservative, she loves me.
Oh, and one more thing…Kath, I love you too.
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I loved this. Both my husband and I were blind to politics and never voted our first five years of marriage. We went through the same journey and had the same epiphany. We are not left or right. We are well read people and because of this we have evolved into conservatives because of our distrust of big government. I am so put off by the angry left. They do not seem to have a logical debate. All they want to do is name call and throw out sound bites from MSM. Brave New World, 1984, and the Diary of Anne Frank would be a good start. I guess these are no longer required reading is high school. Wonder why?
Very well put! I gave up on liberals in this election too. They went from being tolerable and tolerant, to being intolerable and intolerant. People I used to call friends even though we disagreed ideologically became abrasive and unfriendly. As Mr. Wrestling IV said in one of his blog posts, it was time to take out the trash. My political colon got a cleansing and my life is better off and less stressful for it.
Thank God the woman I am married to is a conservative!
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Jimmy, cool…very cool! Good piece!
It seems we conservatives think highly of our strong, talented, intelligent and independent minded wives!
I stopped calling myself a democrat leading up to the 2000 elections, mostly (at the time) due to the obvious hypocrisy of the msm and its never been the same, both in my personal life and in my professional life.
Which suited me just fine because I've always preferred being in the minority anyway. Never did go much for the "mob rule" mentality, and, whether they like it or not, liberals are todays status quo.
Great piece in the American Thinker explains the left of today.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/03/whom_the_g...
That was a great heartfelt piece, thank you for sharing with us. As a lifelong Conservative, from a Conservative family, it is amazing to read how so many people have these awakenings. I have yet to meet any adult who was a Conservative and then became a leftist. Seems all adults go the other way. Great to have you here!
I have often wondered to myself, how many of those around me that remained silent during political discussion leaned in the same direction as I. It has made me painfully aware that I need to speak forcefully and passionately, yet with the understanding that not everyone has the will to push forward their ideas. We must show the politicians that we are the majority. Differences aside, basic principles intact.
A particular favorite is, my DeNiro, as Jake LaMotta, performing Kenny Loggins, “House at Pooh Corner”
You NEED to video that and post it. I would love to see that! LOL
I love it Jimmy! You're pretty much describing my own path to conservatism. I don't remember if there was any one thing that did it (it was during Clinton's second administration), but it's like I woke up from a dream. My Irish Catholic father disliked Republicans and Protestants most of all (he was fine with the individual and most times like them very much when he met them), so he was shocked when I announced my switching my party affiliation to the conservative Republicans. My family has been liberal democrat since they got off the boat from Ireland, so that's how I was raised.
I love reading accounts of intellectual awakenings like this. Thanks so much for sharing!
So you're Irish-Italian American, eh? My father's sister – my aunt – married an Italian, so I have Irish-Italian cousins and they are the craziest, best people I know!
By the way, even though I had joined the hated Republicans, my dad still loved me. Our conversations got a lot more interesting though.
I am a lifelong Conservative from a conservative family who is still split (I didn't know this until later in life because we never talked politics) Republican and Democrat. I am young and my first exposure to real politics was Ronald Reagan during the Carter debates. Even as someone who was hardly in any kind of school, I could tell a difference between the two. I fell in love with Reagan's optimism, enthusiasm, belief in true hope and true change built around our own responsibilities and not groveling for government handouts. Carter, on the other hand, came off as angry, manipulative, fearful and hopeless.
Sadly, I found most of liberalism (especially leftism) is built more around the ideals of the protestant Calvinism than the religious Conservatives are politically. Human nature is considered horrible and must be bent to the rule of a few self-righteous leaders whose final goal is to keep the masses tightly under the thumb. Although conservativism has its own brand of thumb leadership, for the most part it holds to the idea that humans are independant, smart, and responsible for their own actions.
I just can't understand why there are so many liberals in the world. You would think after decades people could come to the conclusion freedom is more desirable than minimal protection under tyranny. Oh yea, you can shag anyone and anything without consiquence; base pleasures over personal responsibility and real independence. Liberals haven't learned how to grow up and leave mommy and daddy to become their own persons.
I know! Sometimes we have to have things pointed out to us, especially the hypocrisy and BIAS of the msm. I didn't realize the extent of it until I read Bernie Goldberg's book "Bias." Knowing what to look for, it's amazing that anyone could not see it.
It is so refreshing to hear a man say he loves and respects his wife. It seems all we hear is the dysfunction. Thanks. Many of us were Liberals until we grew up. Butler is right. I have never met a former Conservative turned Leftist. I have met a few far right conservatives turn Centrist though.
The movie "American Carol" represented one of the worst American leftists of all, Michael Moore, as an ignorant schlub who gradually woke up to conservative values and became a patriotic American. That's what we conservatives really think — that most "liberals" are just unawakened conservatives.
And when a liberal awakens, they can be our fiercest warriors and greatest thinkers. Let's wake more of them!
I can't figure out the leftist thing myself. I have a friend who lives in New England, is an entrepreneur, and who is even more opposed to abortion than am I, yet he consistently votes for leftists. He is a pretty smart guy, so for the life of me, I simply do not understand the disconnect between what he stands for and the people he supports who are running for office.
Welcome home brother! Good to have you! Its not that being a Republican or Conservative makes a person inherently decent its just that sometimes people suddenly have it dawn on them that there is more at stake than whats at the end of ones nose. Becomming a Republican and what I like to call a true classic liberal means a person has grown up. Maturing. Being a critical thinker and unafraid of saying yeah I was wrong.
Wow, I can relate on so many levels here.. lol I am the wife that grew up in a liberal family (with the exception of my grandmother). I also was called "brainwashed" not just on politics but religion. Family and friends were very upset with my husband for changing my point of view. My grandmother now passed on, I sometimes wonder what it would be like to still have her around and be able to share view points and such with someone in my family with the same ideas and dreams. Many of my family members have in ways disowned me. It's odd at times, but in many ways, I am happy I don't get together with them. I get tired of the constant bashing of my views and ideas, yet out of respect to my elders, I would just sit and be quiet. It's nice to find others online because even here in Texas.. it's hard to find people in which you can have things in common with. God Bless you and your wife. And even when it seems no one else agrees.. remember we are here.. you just gotta look in the right places
The last straw for me was when I saw grown people at the Democratic Convention boo little boyscouts while they were on stage. True Leftists are arrogant and ugly hearted people. There but for the grace of God go I.
Welcome to you and your wife! A team stronger for your journey and allies with whom I would proudly stand.
Good for you, Jimmy. Good thing is, none of those conservative guys she admires would try to steal her from you. In my experience with those I've known, the same can't be said of liberal TV stars.
OMG, I saw that! I think that's a defining moment moment for me that cemented my conservatism. I go out of my way to support the Boy Scouts. An organization that sticks to its principles, principles that are based on God and country and doing what is right to take care of their neighbors are SO deserving of our support.
Good read! For me it was Carter. Leftist are a danger to the Republic the enemy are inside the lines, vigilance is required.
most of liberalism (especially leftism) is built more around ..Calvinism
I believe that Calvinism stressed a 'work-ethic'. That it was morally good to engage in work and be productive, and evil to be idle. This is nothing like liberalism as we see it today.
Liberalism simply appeals to emotion. The poor lady who died in Ohio because she didn't have insurance. The bridge with 200 homeless veterans sleeping under it every night. Cut the rate of growth of a program, "You want people to starve." Think "marriage" means a person of the male gender commits to a person of the female gender? You "hate" homosexuals. This is why they engange in name-calling. Once you are racist, we are no longer talking about your arguement, which holds no weight because you are a racist. This is why they glued typewriter keys down and trashed rooms, last time they lost the white house. This is why, when Charlie Gibson points out to BHO that as you raise Cap. gains taxes, revenues decrease, Obama responds, "Yes, but we have to consider 'fairness'" .
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Jimmy, I am glad you ended by telling your wife you loved her too. Now, the real reason I am writing: your bio is incorrect. The Red Sox won the World Series in 2004 and 2007 (not 2006). As you know, facts are important.
I really have a hard time with this. I understand the 'conversions', but I have to know—why did ANY of you EVER think that there was something viable on the left? Simple logic shows it's innate idiocy. How did any of you accept it?
There is that saying that so many quote at me when I ask this–that if one is not a liberal when young then one has no heart–and if one is not a conservative when one is older one has no brain. Many quote this as some kind of explanation for their leftism. But is it? If you read it the natural question is why not use your brain AND your heart? What fool sees the two as incompatible?
I have always used my heart and my brain. Doing so, I have always been able to see the foolish and inherently heartless nature of what we refer to as liberalism.
So why couldn't you all see it?
Nice read, Jimmy. I have that unfortunate habit of lumping liberals together with the hard left loonies. I need to nuance my lumping. They are different and doing that is unfair.
Jack – it's easy to see why. There are infinite roads one may travel to a single destination. In your case you came to your understanding, seemingly by being born in the exact destination you were destined for. It should be easy to understand not everyone is placed on the same point the map, and there are multiple methods of travel.
Speaking of using one's brain and heart. The above point utilizes empathy and logic.
Jack – it's easy to see why. There are infinite roads one may travel to a single destination. In your case you came to your understanding, seemingly by being born in the exact destination you were destined for. It should be easy to understand not everyone is placed on the same point the map, and there are multiple methods of travel.
Speaking of using one's brain and heart. The above point utilizes empathy and logic.
Ouch. Thanks for catching me there Dave. I'm sure I'll have family and friends from Beantown wanting me hung upside down from the Green Monsta as a result. Take care.
Okay, Jack, I'll take a hack at your question. Let's say you're told all your life that taking a bath is dangerous. You do see people who take baths regularly, but you're told by your parents and teachers that bathing will destroy your body's natural defenses, strip away needed oils, and open you up to infection.
Tell me what courage it takes to step into a bath? To wash your hair, to scrub your body clean? It takes a huge amount of courage. It takes the application of reason and yet in the end it also takes a leap of faith.
Most leftists have been brainwashed since birth. I applaud them when they finally get clean.
For me Carter also….I was a liberal Kennedy/King Democrat……"judge not a man by the color of his skin but the quality of his character"…….MLK……"ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country"…..JFK…..
During the Carter/Reagan debates……the light came on…..I hadn't left the Democrats….they'd left me…..I hadn't changed….they had!!!! Reagan was like coming home…….to the greatest country ever!!!
Your journey is a common one……and I'm pleased you were able to come to the light!!!!
Good News! I love hearing of the "awakening" of those called out of the fog into the light. The Left works that way, keep you in a hazy fog of vague self-righteousness. You start asking a few questions, probing a little deeper, and you start seeing the truth, not the spin.
Interesting reply blaming Calvinism; I would say, not really. Calvinism is a rigidly Biblical practice of Christianity; one of the main points is that man is born sinful and corrupt. Most communities in the USA at its founding were Calvinist, and that is why we have our beloved Constitution so guarded against letting any one man have too much power– the idea of checks and balances. Because men will work for their own self-interest; so calvinism is the basis for both the Constitution and Capitalism, and it works.
Liberalism is based on Romanticism–the idea that we are born noble and good, and then our evil white western traditions corrupt the young, teaching them greed and oppression. Hence the Left's love affair with social programs that try to brainwash kids into worshipping the environment, PC version of 'tolerance,' rejection of absolute truth, etc. And thats why so many of us raised in a PC culture have trouble adapting to reality.
I've always been conservative, but I never thought of it that way until the OKC bombing and subsequent investigation brought my family and hometown into close, personal contact with the MSM and taught us in an ugly way what they really think about those of us in flyover country and how they twisted the stories and narrative despite the truth to fit their narrow-minded perspective and beliefs, and that's what they sold to the country. It taught me to forever after question what they show me and say, and I found my way to other sources and learned that I was a conservative as a result, and that I was normal, decent and certainly not a dumb hick.
Beautiful love story, on both accounts – your wife and your politics. Now THAT could be a great movie. A conservative love story, the awakening of two liberals in love and in truth. I'm getting inspired to write a script. Think When Harry Met Sally, with all the couples talking about their conversions throughout the film. That'd be a great movie. And a winner in nearly all markets of America, save NY and LA.
I think I just talked myself into writing it.
Ralph telling Alice – " BABY, YOU'RE THE GREATEST ! " – to end "Honeymooners" episodes is one of classic TV's most sweetly endearing moments.
Modern "liberal" leftism does heavily preach denying oneself pleasure and comfort–material pleasures, including uncramped-homes with sufficient heat and light; culinary pleasures, from meat to "transported" foods like coffee; travel in private vehicles or across the country; and especially the pleasure one feels from enjoying the fruits of one's labors. The only pleasures they allow are sexual (and even then, it had better not be procreative intercourse within wedlock, because that's WRONG).
I'm not sure if that's a Calvinist doctrine, but it's very Puritan.
Uhhh…since I didn't watch the Dem Convention I guess I missed a treat. Why were they booing the Boy Scouts?
Nice read, Jimmy. I have that unfortunate habit of lumping liberals together with the hard left loonies. I need to nuance my lumping. They are different and doing that is unfair.
Tom –
Because the Boy Scouts of America refuses to allow openly-gay Scoutmasters, and has fought and won numerous court cases.
The Democratic Convention crowd took out its ire on the young Scouts who were participating in the Pledge of Allegiance ceremony.
I guess that I was fortunate. I had Jimmy Carter to cure me of any teenage liberal inclinations that I may have harbored. The political dynamic in your relationship with your wife made me smile. My wife is a city born lady of Irish and Roman Catholic heritage. In past generations she would be a Democrat. Now she is a Republican who is not so much an idealogue, but guided by common sense. She is alternately amused and aggrevated by by strong libertarian/conservative bent.
Sunday night when I read to her the AP newswire story of Rick Waggoner's firing by the President, I was expecting her to poo-poo my alarmist concerns. Concerns that we're on a fast, slippery slope to a state in our government that may never be remedied. She shocked me with the reply that Waggoner's firing "scared the hell" out of her. She asked me, "If they can do this in private industry now, where does this end? It scares me for we are leaving our kids."
I wish I had an answer for her.
I've spoken of my transition on this site and bored enough people with it. But I've been asked a few times why I switched sides and became a conservative. For serious questioners, I give the answers I've posted here before. For those throwing it down as as if I had developed a mental illness, I simply say" "I got sober."
One of these days, Jimmy Arrone. One of these days. Bang! TO THE MOON!
I get what you're saying Jimmy but not in the way you may think: In 1994(?) I was pounding some California grape with my doctor and enjoying a robusto maduro at a 'Publican function. I remember that sell-out, Doolittle, (aptly named) standing at the podium and announcing the new GOP' mantra: Compassionate Conservatism. I threw up my hands and barked, "There goes the cool people!" Within a few years, the GOP was overtaken by nerds. In came the wacky religious right, the moderately clueless, the spineless and lots of nerds, nerds, nerds. Hey, Bobby Jindal is great. He's got my support. But if he's our future poster boy; fella's, we're not getting laid anytime soon. (Inserted for dramatic effect.) As a young guy entering politics I looked at Reagan and Carter and thought, "Game Over!" Reagan was cool. He made the GOP cool and we showed our colors. I don't know about the rest of you but it's time to bring the jocks back to the party. Pass me that big cabernet .
Great article. For me, the Carter years were like a dismal bad dream of an era. Life was varying shades of gray. Then, during the Reagan era, colors and textures began to come back and life had promise and opportunity.
Over the years it's been interesting to watch my husband evolve from left-leaning to conservative. It's a comfort to share our thoughts and feelings.
It was personal. From that moment on I was pretty much done with liberals. (I wish to add, not all liberals, just the ones who pretend to be liberals but in truth are leftists. I despise leftists).
That one point really sums up the problem. Leftists feel so superior and self-righteous. I am glad to see you have the fortitude and integrity to remain civil. It can be extremely difficult.
As a political artist, I face the same problem. You would think I had committed some unforgivable blasphemy the way Leftists react to my work. Fortunately, like you, I have some truly Liberal friends (in the classic definition of the word) who are often interested in my perspective. Admittedly, some of them find me absurd, but we get along fine. As a Libertarian, I aggravate my Republican friends as well.
Sometimes, it's best not to talk politics, and that's a shame. We can't understand each others' point of view if we don't talk about it. Unfortunately, the hypocrisy and irony are lost on many from both sides. We're in for an interesting time.
Don't underestimate Jindal. And don't confuse being a "grown up" with being a "nerd."
JIMMY!!!
Nice work, brother.
I could hear your voice as I read the words.
Nice article Jimmy !!!!
Can you explain how 2 Southern Baptist dyed in the wool Democrats can raise a son who becomes a conceal carry, gun toting, liberal loathing, conservative knuckle-dragger…that eventually joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints………(OH MY GOSH..A MORMON !!!)
Man, can you talk about culture shock in Mom and Dad's house……lol
right on brother. your wife needs a MAN, not one of those whiney suckas! keep on opening doors for us gals, we love it despite the bra burners!
I wrote a related post: "I AM NOT EVIL".
http://mutnodjmetsmusings.blogspot.com/2006_09_01...
Family get-togethers must be a hoot!
Yeah it can get pretty strange but I got good parents and we always move the furniture first before we have discussions …..:)
Good article Jimmy. As for me, I was born & raised in a staunch Conservative family. I dutifully registered as such when I turned 18 and earned that inalienable right to vote in our great country. I've always been proud to be an American. It's taken me years to realize I'm much more liberal than I ever thought I was. My grandparents and father are likely rolling over in their graves at this revelation. World events such as the Vietnam, Gulf and Iraq wars, Watergate, 9/11 and life events including marriage at age 19 for all the wrong reasons, divorce the best thing that ever happened to me, and in my face single parenting challengess made me realize my life and views on such were out of control. My son was raised on MTV and video games–now that he is in college and a father himself, we've shared some healthy debates and I've learned quite a lot from him. His generation will change the world.
Believe it or not I cast my vote for McCain/Palin despite being one of the only ones who did so in my social circles. I didn't believe America was ready for Obama, despite the color of his skin. But the color of one's skin shouldn't define a person's views or affect on the world. I think it was during Obama's Inauguration hoopla I began to take note. The controversy and debate over how "black" Obama was made me angry and I felt the suppressed rebelliousness ooze through my veins. WTF difference if we call ourselves Democrats, Republicans or Liberals? Gone are the days we were expected to vote and support only "our" Party of choice. THAT is racism.
The future is now and now is the time for Americans ro stand up and speak out for their beliefs. What defines a Conservative? What defines a Liberal? Why must we even feel these labels are necessary? I truly believe that as an albeit very powerful nation we can move forward in a positive manner if these labels become transparent and if we all can just remember it's OK to agree to disagree. Don't waste our energy arguing or feebly attempting to force our beliefs onto others. Instead, pour that energy into helping change our world. Reach out and volunteer, donate, make a difference. Love and accept one another for who/what we are despite any labels. It will make the world a better and much brighter place.
outtacontrol56…for some reason my reply isn't going through…let me try this:
Thanks for taking the time to read my piece and share a bit about yourself. It's strange how our initial connection was from the Russell Brand piece. I remember it well. I appreciate the fact we were able to agree to disagree on that particular subject.
continued…
As for the whole conservative/liberal label…it's unfortunate however for the present time I see no other alternative. With a democrat in the White House, a democratic controlled Congress, a MSM which seems unable to do it's job, our country is about to experience 'the Change' that was voted in by the majority last November. I am not all that jazzed by this administration up to this point. (I was pleased to see the president hold back on releasing the Abu Grahb photos though)
With all due respect, your last five sentences pretty much some up where we part company. I'm not interested in changing the world. I want to keep my country strong and safe. Love and acceptance sounds groovy in a utopian sense however the real world is quite different. There is good in the world and there is evil. For some odd reason, many liberals seem unable to grasp this fact. Sad but true. Until next time…
It's been a long journey. Welcome home.
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