Another change book
I haven’t read this book, but it sounds as though it could be apropos: Why I Turned Right: Leading Baby Boom Conservatives Chronicle Their Political Journeys.
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Spectral news
Since we’ve been discussing RINOs lately (and note today’s unsurprising news is that, as Snowe goes, so goes Collins), it’s interesting to take a look at how newly-reformed reratting ex-RINO Arlen Specter is doing in his bid for re-election as … Continue reading →
Succinct summary of the change process
Now here’s a changer: Some of the [Sept. 12] protesters had traveled farther than just the distance between their home town and Washington. Dr. David Levine, a psychiatrist from Rockford, Illinois, was Ramsey Clark’s volunteer press secretary when the ultra-liberal … Continue reading →
Obama Arrangement Syndrome
I propose the use of the following term for the tendency to make excuses for our new President: Obama Arrangement Syndrome, or OAS. I picked up this felicitous phrase here, from commenter “Terry Gain,” who writes: …at least six months … Continue reading →
Telling the tale of the Left: apostates and escapees
I write a great deal about what I call “political changers,” those people who have had some sort of political conversion or political evolution experience. As I explained here, this change is ordinarily unidirectional, from Left to Right; and (as … Continue reading →
Mousavi the changer?—Part II
Two days ago I wrote a post speculating on whether Mousavi was a “changer.” I didn’t know the answer, and I still don’t know. But I wrote: …the reasons for Mousavi’s retirement from the public scene in 1989 are mysterious … Continue reading →
Is Mousavi a “changer?”
Mir-Hossein Mousavi, the candidate for President of Iran who is at the center of the current Iranian storm, is an enigma. Mousavi’s Wiki entry sheds little light on the subject; it deals with the bare bones of his history, which … Continue reading →
A German breaks ranks with liberalism
Perhaps I should institute a “political changer of the day” feature. Today’s is that of Spiegel editor Jan Fleischhauer. It’s pretty funny—although very sobering as well—to read of Fleischhauer’s childhood indoctrination in what one can only call the cult of … Continue reading →
Two changers to read for today
Here’s Bookworm with some more advice on how to talk to a liberal. And here’s “Robin of Berkeley” on the difficulty of finding friends of the conservative persuasion in the bowels of true-blue Berkeley. Ladies, I feel your pain.
Continue reading →George McGovern against Orwellian “Employee Free Choice Act”
In the spring of 2008, liberal Democrat George McGovern was brave enough to speak out against card check. Now McGovern proves he wasn’t fooling; he’s got an article on the subject up today at the Wall Street Journal, about card … Continue reading →
The specter of Specter haunts the Republican Party
I’m going to start out by saying something that will shock a few people, I suppose: I am not now, nor have I ever been, a member of the Republican Party. Not only that, but I doubt I ever will … Continue reading →
Stop me before I change my mind!
Here’s another story of political change (second part here). It’s of interest to me not only because writer/changer Lissa cites me as inspiration, but because of the description of her reaction when she first realized she was going in the … Continue reading →