I have had a few people email to ask me who I am and what my “credentials” are to make political commentary, hence this post. Some of this I have written elsewhere at places I frequent, but I’m going to put it all together here. Let me start off by saying that I am a native North Carolinian - I love this state and would recommend it to anyone who wanted to visit or live here. We’ve got everything you need: beautiful mountains, serene beaches, and tons of gorgeous countryside in between. It goes without saying that this state has many small towns which are suited for those who would choose to live far away from the hustle and bustle of big city life. But we’ve got a few nice big cities for those so inclined. I prefer a mixture of both. I really like the country, but don’t want to be too far away from civilization, either 
Ok, enough of the NC tourism guide stuff 
Being a native North Carolinian, you’d think that by nature I’d have always been a conservative. Well, I haven’t been. I was a liberal from age 17 to right around the time I was 22. I got most of my info from the news outlets, rather than reading anymore in depth into the issues than that, which I think is one of the reasons I would have found myself voting for Mike Dukakis in 1988 - but I was 2 months shy of being able to vote that election year. Hadn’t quite hit my 18th birthday. Not to turn this into a liberal bias piece, but at that time when every single ‘mainstream’ source out there was liberally biased, how could I not have been a liberal? I complain a lot about liberal bias in the media for that very reason: because I know how influential it can be to those who don’t research the issues much outside of what they hear in the media. Mind you, I’m not saying that liberals aren’t grounded in their beliefs, just saying that some do form their political beliefs based on what they see in the mainstream media and I was one of those people.
The first vote I cast for president was for Bill Clinton in 1992. I even worked with the Democratic party in ‘92 to help get him elected. Just a few days before his defeat of President G.H.W. Bush, Clinton swung into town and I worked that event, helping to get it set up. It was a cold November evening, and because I’d been there to help set up all day, I had a front row spot as he entered and exited the event, which was held outdoors at an uptown park. I couldn’t have been more excited - Clinton did that to people. He had a lot of charm, being a southerner, and he was “every man” to everyone, which is a big reason why he got elected. My parents were furious with me for voting for him! In any event, I made the switch to being a Republican back around 1994-1995. The change had been happening for several months - no one pushed me into it, it was a choice I gladly made. No one thing or person can be credited with helping me change - it was just a lot of things. There was a guy in college who really helped me see the light, though, who deserves some credit. Simply put, I just realized over time that I had more in common with Republicans than Democrats.
I spent about 5 years in college after graduating high school - 3 at a local community college where I took business classes aimlessly while trying to figure out what I wanted to do, and another 2 at a community college in a neighboring city, which had a Radio/TV broadcasting 2 year degree program I became intertested in pursuing. When I graduated from college, I looked forward to beginning my career as a DJ but the first job I landed in radio was not at a music station, but talk radio and it was conservative at that. I produced the show for our morning host who was on for 2 hours (I think at one point that was changed to 3 hours) and learned a lot from him as well - especially how to dissect the media. He was a conservative but not a hard core conservative and was willing to look at both sides of an issue. At that point, I was still in the process of transforming from a liberal to a conservative, and listening to him and reading up more on the issues completed the transformation. Eventually I hosted an afternoon talk show there for an hour, and then moved to the three hour morning slot when the guy I had been producing for went to another station. I really miss those days sometimes!
I’ve never looked back nor regretted my change from liberal to conservative, even when my party has sometimes not acted conservative - but that mostly seems to be happening on fiscal matters. I sometimes think back to my vote for Bill Clinton back in 1992 and wonder “how could I have done that?” but I try not to beat myself up over it and instead paint a positive side to it in that shows that I learn from my mistakes
Let’s see — what else? Ok, I was born in January. I have a pretty kitty cat named Muffin who everyone here would fall in love with if they saw her. I have a strong belief in God and my faith in Him has only gotten stronger since 9-11. I was in NYC on 9-11 when it happened (was my first trip there) and needless to say, it was a life changing event for many people and you can include yours truly in that. I would love to one day become a paid professional writer in the political world as I seem to eat, sleep, and breathe politics. Can you tell? It’s awesome to get paid to do what you love to do and this is what I love to do. But even if I never get paid for it, I’d still do it. That’s how it is for those of us who are very passionate about politics.
So that’s a lil about me … you can wake up now!
Added 7/17/06: Here are a few things you didn’t know about your blog hostess
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I have also been honored to guestblog at the following blogs:
(now known as Blogs for Victory)
And you’re also cute as a button!
Beauty AND brains…the mind fairly REELS!
Comment by Solly @ 10/17/2004 - 10:18 pm
What a coincidence! I had the very same idea tonight, and even have a vague bio in draft form waiting to be finished as I write this.
Keep up the great blog work!
Walt
Comment by MsFalconersCabanaBoy @ 10/18/2004 - 2:46 am
I have had a few people email to ask me who I am and what my “credentials” are to make political commentary…
The only reason you *really* need is that you’re an American and you have an opinion. That’s it.
As for voting for Clinton…don’t beat yourself up over it. I did, too, the first time he ran, and I voted for Gore also. I’ve always voted for who I think the best man for the job is. It takes awhile, sometimes, before one sees the light.
You’ve a wonderful blog–it shall become one of my regular reads.
Comment by LCVRWC @ 10/18/2004 - 8:21 am
Solly: thank you! You’re very kind
Walt: I’ll have to check back at the Pajama Pack to see if you’ve got your bio up today. The blog keeping you busy these days? I know the feeling
LCVRWC: First, love the nickname
Secondly, thank you for the compliments - and you’re right, I shouldn’t beat myself up over voting for Clinton but sheesh … it bugs me! 
Glad you have “seen the light” too. Better sometime than never!
Comment by Sister Toldjah @ 10/18/2004 - 9:36 am
“Kind”?
Nah! Two good eyes, and excellent reading comprehension!
Comment by Solly @ 10/18/2004 - 10:53 pm
Well I appreciate it muchly, Solly
Comment by Sister Toldjah @ 10/18/2004 - 11:12 pm
Worth the wait.
Comment by CavalierX @ 10/19/2004 - 7:27 am
Thanks, Cav! Now it’s your turn .. where’s that “about Cav” post at your blog?
Comment by Sister Toldjah @ 10/19/2004 - 10:54 am
Oh, that’ll never happen. The closest I ever get is the stupid bio they make me add whenever they reprint my rantings at GOPUSA.com’s Commentary section. And THAT’S only about two lines.
Comment by CavalierX @ 10/19/2004 - 11:59 am
You’ve got me curious now!
Comment by Sister Toldjah @ 10/19/2004 - 12:45 pm
I heard that’s what killed the cat.
Comment by CavalierX @ 10/19/2004 - 9:24 pm
Hey sister,
It’s great to come to your site. I think that it looks great. As for me, I am new to the blogoshpere. I am two weeks old in this endeavor. So, my site has much for me to work on and develop. Hope to hear from you soon.
Comment by Dominic @ 10/26/2004 - 8:00 pm
Thanks for stopping by, Dominic! Pleased to meet a fellow North Carolinian in the blogosphere.
Comment by Sister Toldjah @ 10/26/2004 - 8:28 pm
New comer here living in the Lake Norman area. Moved from Dallas, Texas in July. So glad to see a conservative blogger covering local issues. I’ll drop by often and learn a bunch.:smile:
Comment by Dixonh @ 10/26/2004 - 10:15 pm
Hi Dixon - welcome to NC! How are you liking it here so far? I was nearby Lake Norman just a few weeks ago visiting a friend. Beautiful area.
Comment by Sister Toldjah @ 10/27/2004 - 9:27 am
Good to see a fellow Southerner. I am in South Carolina about an hour and a half south of the Queen City on US 521. Great site!
Comment by J Rob @ 2/25/2005 - 4:00 pm
Hi Rob and thanks for stopping by
Glad to see a fellow Carolinian on line. US 521 sure is one long as hell road … LOL
Comment by Sister Toldjah @ 2/25/2005 - 4:10 pm
Yeah, and what it does when it goes through Lancaster should be criminal.
Comment by J Rob @ 2/25/2005 - 9:04 pm
I’ve not been through there in a while… would you fill me in on what it does, J?
Comment by Sister Toldjah @ 3/1/2005 - 2:49 pm
Zee -
Do you actually program this site yourself or is it done construction set style using software that does it all for you?
Frank
Comment by Frank @ 3/21/2005 - 11:12 pm
What do you mean Frank?
Comment by Sister Toldjah @ 3/24/2005 - 6:19 pm
Love the makeover you’ve done on your site! Now it’s as pretty as you are!
Comment by L.N. Smithee @ 8/2/2005 - 12:38 am
I appreciate that, L.N. - this skin for this site I’ve had for a while, though. I just switched from another one I had for the time being. The new skin will be up sometime this month. I can’t wait! Thanks for visiting
Comment by Sister Toldjah @ 8/2/2005 - 8:54 am
Just wanted to comment on what a nice blog you have, and that it is an almost daily read for me. It’d be a daily read, but sometimes I get sidetracked.
Keep up the great work!
Comment by Brian @ 8/4/2005 - 11:57 am
Thanks Brian - I understand on the sidetracked thing … happens to me too
Comment by Sister Toldjah @ 8/4/2005 - 12:26 pm
Hey, Sister:
Just found you. Love the site so far!
Keep it up!:cool:
Comment by Greg @ 8/4/2005 - 4:23 pm
‘ello Greg - thanks!
Comment by Sister Toldjah @ 8/4/2005 - 7:41 pm
Hello!
I just came across your site because Instapundit had a link to your recent post about the mainstream media and blogs. You have a great site and keep
up the good work.
I basically consider myself libertarian like F.A. Hayek and Milton Friedman.
Comment by Ron @ 8/6/2005 - 5:44 pm
Ran across your site via LaShawn Barber.
Great comments.
I too like you was a liberal at one time, however I was old enough to vote for Peanuts Carter in 1980. After following what was going on I decided that I was more conservative that liberal and hense the change.
I’m living in Raleigh NC. I moved down here 6 years ago. I took me a couple of years to adjust. I still miss Chicago though, the restaurants and night life and of course my friends.
Anyway keep up the good work with your excellent blogg.
Kathy
Comment by Kathy Burgoyne @ 8/6/2005 - 6:50 pm
Ron: Hi and thanks! There are some days I could be a libertarian too
Kathy: Gracias! It’s a small world, eh? Nice to meet ya here in the blogosphere. Oh, and isn’t it a liberating feeling to go from being a liberal to a conservative?
Comment by Sister Toldjah @ 8/6/2005 - 11:14 pm
If you have any posts on how your feelings about specific policies (taxes, reproductive health, sexual orientation equality, relations between church and state, foreign aid, missile defense, etc.) have changed as a result of doing your own research rather than accepting what you read in the mainstream media, I’d be very interested in reading them.
Comment by PG @ 8/7/2005 - 8:41 pm
No, no posts like that here. You’ll just have to trust me
I spent a lot of time with my head in books checked out from libraries, for starters. And some of my stances on social issues (for example) just changed over time as a result of soul searching and thinking through what I was oringally advocating. Perhaps I’ll write a post about some of the changes I went through in depth one day.
Comment by Sister Toldjah @ 8/7/2005 - 8:56 pm
Hi:
I enjoy your site. Why is there a line drawn through?:
“but I’ve met someone who I’m very interested in and the feelings seem to be returned so we’ll see where that goes (yahoooo!)”
Rather than removing it completely? Inquiring minds in Atlanta would like to know~
Comment by John Kwarsick @ 8/8/2005 - 3:50 pm
Cute, conservative, 35ish?, smart enough not to accept what is on the surface, what else could a guy ask for.
Well, I’ll tell you one. Move to Ohio.:wink: What a shame your so far away.
Guess I’ll just have to know you by your words and a tiny little photo.
I too am curious about the strikethru. Maybe a move is in my future.
Comment by Left in my mind @ 8/8/2005 - 4:52 pm
Hey John and “Left” (you should be “Right” in your mind, BTW
!
Generally, if I have a post I display permanently in one of the sidebar sections here, if I edit it, instead of deleting the info, I’ll update it and strikethrough what’s no longer current. I know many a blogger who does that, and I think it’s so anyone who may have clicked on the link once and then goes back to it later will not blink twice and go “wait, wasn’t this different before?”
As far as “what happened” - well, let’s just say things didn’t work out. It happens sometimes. Ya learn from your mistakes, and try to move on with no hard feelings … that’s how I feel about it anyway
Comment by Sister Toldjah @ 8/8/2005 - 6:03 pm
I think a post on how you changed your mind would be really fascinating. Most people are quite fixed in their views and loath to admit that they were ever wrong, so an in-depth look at how certain books or arguments altered how you looked at particular policies would be very different from what one generally sees in blogging.
Personally I was a conservative when I was very young, then went through the libertarian/ Ayn Rand phase in early high school and eventually became a liberal (though not necessarily a Democrat, as I am somewhat suspicious of the power aggregation of unions and have other disagreements with the party). I would say that the main component in my shift was a recognition of how other people’s circumstances differed from mine: for example, that other people might not have parents who had the same interest and resources to provide for education, and who therefore needed the government to step in.
Comment by PG @ 8/9/2005 - 1:33 am
I may do that sometime, PG - thanks for the suggestion
Comment by Sister Toldjah @ 8/9/2005 - 9:20 am
Keep it up. Your star is definately on the rise.
Garx
Comment by Garx @ 8/9/2005 - 1:16 pm
Thank you!
Comment by Sister Toldjah @ 8/9/2005 - 2:54 pm
Sister Toldjah, I like you. You show yourself as a real person on your blog. And I like to think of you not as a conservative but as an American. I have to say though that I’m as conservative as the Oklahoma dirt I grew up in.
Comment by Ron Corbett @ 8/12/2005 - 12:51 pm
How kind - I appreciate your compliments, Ron
Thanks for visiting and I hope you return.
Comment by Sister Toldjah @ 8/13/2005 - 10:24 am
Sister,
Linked to your site from Michelle Malkin. I find your context refreshingly unique and your commentary easy to read. I will make this site a regular stop while surfing the blogs. Probably right after Chris Muir.
Thanks,
Earl Ehrhart
Representative district 36 Georgia
Comment by Earl Ehrhart @ 8/15/2005 - 10:21 am
Well hello Rep. Ehrhart and thanks for stopping by - thank you for your kind words as well
Glad to know you’ll be a regular visitor!
Comment by Sister Toldjah @ 8/15/2005 - 11:00 am
Cute? Cute?
How about stunning, beautiful and breath taking??
AND brains too! Whew - pretty rare if you ask me. I ought to know, 52, single by divorce and still serving the Lord!
Keep up the good work good looking!!
Comment by Louie Marsh @ 8/16/2005 - 12:43 pm
Awwh shucks!
Comment by Sister Toldjah @ 8/16/2005 - 4:29 pm
Sister,
I am a MILBLOGGER who finally got around to visiting your site. I’d seen links to it around the Blogosphere, and outside of noting the cleverness of your moniker, went on by. (There is so much to read in any given day…)
I followed the link from Mudville, and poked around a bit. I very much enjoy your writing style and perspective.
(I especially liked the story on the USS Iowa, which is what brought me here.)
I blogrolled you and intend to keep in touch.
Keep up the great job!
Comment by Dadmanly @ 8/21/2005 - 9:30 am
I appreciate that, sir! And thank you SO MUCH for your service to this great country! God bless you and those serving alongside of you.
Comment by Sister Toldjah @ 8/21/2005 - 6:23 pm
Yes I did get some water, but didn’t need no-doze.
It sound like you’ve been busy and continue too stay busy. I hope you take time out for yourself. Everyone needs sometime for themselves.
Comment by Mike Smith @ 8/22/2005 - 1:03 am
Sister:Without shame and after only one visit to THE Sister Told Jah blog I say “cute” No, Smoking Hot, Yes! And brainy too with I’m sure that melt you down Southern accent.
But please I beg you- I’ll be a regular anyway- get rid of the emoticons. I can’t be the first to ask.
I say you can go “pro” with the blogging. Bainbridge should be your model for raising money via various devices including Amazon partners, “pledge drives” (read begging) etc. But you can take it a step further .. start with autographed pictures, Sister Told Jah coffe mugs, whatever. An since you have the radio experience and why not a pay to hear/download webcast/podcast ?
You go girl !
Comment by ed @ 8/24/2005 - 9:08 pm
where did I read Jackie Gleason: something about as good as you get: running down your mother’s leg.
Keep up the Great work. I hope my daughter will read you.
Comment by Bob Lawrence @ 8/25/2005 - 1:06 am
Mike: No worries … I slip in little bits of good R&R time here and there
Ed: Hi and thanks! I lovvvve my emoticons though … you’re the first to say ‘get rid of ‘em’! Glad to know you’ll be sticking around regardless
Bob: Re: the “mother’s leg” thing - thanks (I think! :shock
Comment by Sister Toldjah @ 8/25/2005 - 10:58 am
Thanks for putting an adorable face on blogging. I have to agree with Ron up there ^, you’re the best of America. We are a conservative nation. Most Dems I konw are that because they recall the fiscal conservatives and Southern Democrats who actually may have represented a majority of our great country. You and most Clinton Democrats voted based on what he SAID :mad:, (remember, he ran as a conservative) and what the press claimed he meant :mad:, versus what he was doing. I happened to have been reading Macchiavelli’s “Qualities Of a Prince” for a college class as Hillary coached Bill into office. The parallels remain scary, especially with so few of our young people getting a good historical education these days. Keep up the good work getting the truth out. Oh, and keep up with the Truth of Our Lord, Jesus Christ. He will set us free!
David
ET1 USN(Ret)(as of today!!!)
Comment by David from Wales, ME @ 9/9/2005 - 12:30 am
Thanks David and congrats on your retirement
Comment by Sister Toldjah @ 9/9/2005 - 1:51 pm
That background reads a little like mine. I was probably a bit of a liberal through college, only because liberalism was all around me, from the media in news, tv, and movies, to my UCLA college experience. Liberalism equated with reasoning and good. Conservatives with evil and selfishness. 9/11 was my wake up call, and since then, I found my political voice and, hey! Conservative over here!
I grew up a military brat and my dad never talked politics with me, although I knew he always voted Republican. Recently, I was on the phone with him complaining about the liberal media bias and he said, “Michael….it’s always been like that.” The difference is, I’ve only just now begun to notice. Before 9/11, I was pretty much uninterested in politics.
Comment by wordsmith @ 9/11/2005 - 9:08 pm
Hi Michael,
Glad to have you as a member of the conservative community
The media really can do a number on people in terms of influencing them if the people let them. From what it sounds like, you and I did have similar experiences on that front.
Comment by Sister Toldjah @ 9/12/2005 - 8:41 am
I think negative media influence is far more destructive that we’ve been willing to believe.
This article by Trudy Rubin, World View columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer is down right scary to me.
LINK
The article also appeared in my local paper, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Comment by Ronald Corbett @ 9/12/2005 - 2:16 pm
I’ll check it out, Ronald. Thanks!
Comment by Sister Toldjah @ 9/12/2005 - 8:22 pm
As others have noted you have a great site. I like a few emotions, sure news is objective but I don’t think emotions are inappropriate on a blog. Who was it who said “If when you’re young and not a liberal you have no heart, but when you’re old and not a conservative you have no brain” Churchill? You do have a beautiful state, I was at a wedding in Charlotte last year and thought it was great.
Comment by yuanme @ 9/15/2005 - 11:24 am
Thanks yuanme! I’m rather fond of NC myself
Comment by Sister Toldjah @ 9/15/2005 - 12:56 pm
Must’ve been John Hancock, right?
Comment by Marty @ 9/15/2005 - 11:35 pm
LOL - nope
Comment by Sister Toldjah @ 9/16/2005 - 1:33 pm
I just read your profile and I’m a little confused. You sat on the front row of a Bubba concert and you weren’t groped, molested or raped? Were you wearing a Hillary diguise? Love your stuff and your handle!
Comment by John Steven Rose @ 9/20/2005 - 6:29 pm
Disguise, not “diguise”. Sorry.
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Comment by John Steven Rose @ 9/20/2005 - 6:32 pm
LOL - thanks, John
I emerged unscathed, thankfully!
Comment by Sister Toldjah @ 9/20/2005 - 8:15 pm
Know what I like about your site? Not only are you a fine thinker, but you care about how you spell it! Being a terminally obsessive pedant, I notice such things. Anyhoo, kudos from another impressed (and now regular) ((in the temporal-not biological-sense)) reader.
Comment by D. Vious @ 9/22/2005 - 12:29 pm
Welcome to the ST blog, “D”
Comment by Sister Toldjah @ 9/22/2005 - 10:09 pm
People have an illusion of freedom…we are given Demos. and Repubs, but if the same people control both sides it doesn’t really matter the label of the party or the man in power…the same anti-American, the same un-American policies are carried forward….Sam Bass, Jr.
Comment by Sam Bass, Jr. @ 9/24/2005 - 2:00 pm
Sista, I caught you over at Blogs for Bush as well as California Conservative. I write for CC as well. Keep up the good work!
Comment by Amy Proctor @ 9/26/2005 - 9:21 pm
Thanks Amy - nice to meet you and to be blogging with you at California Conservative as well
Comment by Sister Toldjah @ 9/26/2005 - 9:49 pm
Charlotte? No kiddin. I’m in Hickory.
Good to see a local blog.:smile:
Comment by Michael @ 9/28/2005 - 12:22 am
I love your blog.
I was also a Democrat that has since “seen the light”…
Keep up the great work.
Comment by Recovering Democrat @ 9/29/2005 - 6:05 pm
Hi,
Your story is an interesting study in changing over to the “me first” side. Howard Dean is the biggest factor in why I got involved politically. I’m on the left, take my faith in God seriously and find much of what these so-called Republicans stand for to be anti-thetical to:
making this nation a better one for future generations
the principles of Jesus Christ (his life)
being patriotic and true to the founders of this nation
forming good healthy communities
**I should add that the Democratic Party has a lot of problems too. They fail to live up to the progressive/liberal ideals I and many other grassroots progressives hold most dealy to.
I just happened across your blog because of a Google Blog on Dean. Good luck with your political journey. HOpe you and others here eventually will dig a little deeper in your faith (whatever religion that may be) and ponder just what the point of life is.
It sure can’t be about obtaining more and more wealth - you can’t take that with you.
Regards,
Patrick
Comment by Patrick Briggs @ 9/30/2005 - 6:13 pm
(sigh). I think I am in love. Did you say you were married? I forget. You never talk about your hubby, if you are…you have a sublime blog, and it looks like you are wending your way into blogland notoriety. I’m so jealous; I’ve tried putting down my thoughts on a regular basis, but I am far too much of a procrastinator; I’m more used to thinking about what I want to post and, by that time, the news is old.
I’ve been stopping by, but just had to comment on your Teddy photos; what a horror show that guy is, and the thought of coming across him half-naked like that is the stuff of nightmares…
Comment by Cump @ 10/17/2005 - 7:28 pm
Hey Cump, you silly rabbit! Good to see you posting here, my political debating buddy
Patrick: I’m sorry - I missed your post the first time around. Welcome to the ST blog!
Comment by Sister Toldjah @ 10/18/2005 - 1:23 am
Just came across your site. I really like it. Have you noticed how many people convert from democrat to republican but not that many convert from republican to democrat. To me that says it all. When you get more experience and knowledge you will see the light. I have always been a republican mainly because of my parents but I was a squishy moderate until my late twenties.
Keep up the good work. You are now on my favorites list.
Comment by Vicky @ 10/27/2005 - 4:13 pm
Clever name…nice take on Sista Soldjah, the black activist.
Gee everyone seems to have a cool little title like liberal democrate or Christian consevitive.
I call my self an American. I can listen to all sides and then make up my own mind….WOW!
But you folks keep on playing their game.
Comment by Trevor @ 10/30/2005 - 3:47 pm
Nice Blog. Too bad Raffy and Biggie don’t show up….
Lefty!
Comment by Lefthome @ 12/12/2005 - 7:04 pm
Love your Blog Sister !!!!
It was funny to see Lefty bring up Raffy and Bigearth here.
They will never post from fear of being inundated by “NEO-CONS”.
Your Blog is now on my favorite list !!!
“I Became Right when I left The Left”…
Comment by justaskin' @ 12/19/2005 - 2:50 pm
Hey Lefty and JA … good to see ya’ll here
I doubt Biggie and his partner in crime would ever darken the door here at the ST blog. Even if they did, I have a low tolerance for anti-Semitism as well as rampant cursing on the blog so they wouldn’t last long at that.
Comment by Sister Toldjah @ 12/19/2005 - 3:16 pm
Let’s see… your conservative, intelligent, level-headed and good looking
Where you been all my life!
To liberal converts to conservatism… Here’s something interesting:
http://www.politicalcompass.org/
I too am a conservative convert (particularly with respect to fiscal and personal responsiblity matters)… Yet I still test out at the site above as a centrist liberal… hmmm…!?
I justify this outcome as: the context of our political lives has become so polarized and popularized (e.g. John Stewart, NPR, PBS, FOX) that my newfound personal identification with several conservative mores combined with disdain for the reprehensible, mock-contrarian left-congressional egos (Pelosi, Reid, Schummer, Byrd, Boxer…etc) has produced what feels like conservatisim…?
I mean I no idiot… when I wake up morning after morning to NPR’s subtly editorialized (through choice of stories, language, stacking of experts)… I just get angry and feel robbed by self-ritcheous, public-sector employees currently running things. (And I would imagine largley Gen X’ers; a.k.a my peers)
The bottom line for me is (as citizens of this country) we are all complicit members of a market economy and the vitality of said economy has become more-and-more a function consumerism.. Moreover, all economic development of the 20th and 21st century is underpinned by an energy infrastruce easiliy characterized as the “petroleum economy”.
So the (formerly anti-establishment punk rockers) reborn activist contrarians (some with nice professional public sector jobs) can point all the fingers they want with their 20/20 hindsight.
But - until all the aformentioned congressional members, public broadcasting employees, left media personnel and vehement lefeties own up to fact that they are members of the US economy and indeed enjoy the trappings of US world dominance and western industrial expansion.. then their arguments just seem like destructive whinning and unwarranted idealism.
With the vitriole Barbara Boxer, Chuck Schummer, Henry Reid and Nancy Pelosi spit out… I would expect them to be honest-to-goodness paupers.. living in cardboard boxes and rejecting all modern convenineces on the grounds that: “they are products and evidence of the destructive power of gloabalism and industrial exploitation which contributes to our growing dependence on inequitable foreign trade envrionments and a reliance on war-prone foreign policy”. I don’t know, everytime I see Nancy Pelosi on CSPAN she is always beautifully manicured with nice set of pearls - I wonder if they are Akoya.
I mean isn’t it easy to see the irony in the communication medium utilized by moveon.org or the a/v equipment used by NOW-with Bill Moyers or Frontline on PBS: all products of applied quantum mechanics, industrial development, war, gloablism, and product commercialization.
I don’t profess that everything is just dandy here…we have challenges that require sober, thoughtful and reasoned solutions. But I loathe the faux-liberal mindset that spews (anti, finger pointing) rhetoric as if he/she is in a moral/poitical/consumer vaccum which can accept no responsibiliy for the current state of affairs or the quality of life which prevails as a result. Talk about taking things for granted…!
… Brad
Comment by MeasuredSpace @ 1/3/2006 - 5:03 pm
Oh yeah.. this is an about page… nice blog… did I mention you were hot!
Comment by MeasuredSpace @ 1/3/2006 - 5:49 pm
Just wanted to wish you a Happy New Year. The wish I had for the new year is to make it better then the last one. I want to say that’s what I like about a new year. Make it better then the last one. At lease make the attempt.
That’s all that counts.
Comment by Mike Smith @ 1/3/2006 - 6:28 pm
YIKES!
Just linked to you from Boortz! Your site has been officially bookmarked. Best of luck in your endevour!
OH … beauty and brains, as posted earlier, .. sexy … verrry sexy!
Comment by Neal B @ 1/11/2006 - 4:49 pm
I’m enjoying the blog - congrats on being linked to Neal Boortz’s site. I guess you could call my philosophy Christian Libertarian - not that I’m wild-eyed liberal on social matters, but just because, IMHO, government causes a bigger mess when it intervenes in them.
I’d like to tell you that you’re very attractive, and in my case age-appropriate, but you probably get hit-on all the time. So if I’m hitting on you, please don’t hold it against me.
Again, congratulations, both on your remarkable prescience and on the growth of your blog.
- MM
Comment by Mad Mike @ 1/11/2006 - 6:04 pm
ST,
Hi neighbor (I live in South Carolina). This is my first visit and I am going to bookmark. I am a conservative and recently retired member of the Air Force and if that is your picture; just more proof, conservative women are gorgeous!!! You are a BABE!!!
I am very happy you made the switch. Keep up the great work you are doing here!!
Comment by US Vet @ 1/23/2006 - 3:11 pm
Thanks, US Vet, and welcome aboard!
Comment by Sister Toldjah @ 1/24/2006 - 12:17 am
I too am a North Carolinian and I know because of my World Travels that there is no place on earth greater than the Tarheel State. North Carolina is a place where heaven and earth meet like no other. Anyone who has never been, should go. Anyone who has been, should move there.
There is just something special about our great state. Everytime I return, I notice as I cross the border that the air is cleaner, the sky becomes bluer, the people are friendlier, the tea and the life is sweeter, the pace is more relaxing and the raods are pristine and flowing (except on 85 through Durham).
NORTH CAROLINA RULES! (especially Lenoir)
Comment by Charles Siler @ 2/2/2006 - 11:15 am
I must now put your blog on my blogroll!
Beauty and brains seems to be a popular movement among conservative bloggers, with Pamela of AtlasShrugs and Michelle Malkin and you!
I’m 53 so my story goes way back. I read Ayn Rand as a young boy and worked for Barry Goldwater’s campaign by handing out flyers door to door. But liberal propaganda did it’s work on my brain over time so that by 1968 I worked for Bobby Kennedy and even as recently as 1976 voted for Jimmy Carter (!) I think the fact that it was Nixon who pushed through the law that caused me to be drafted out of college on the last day of finals in my freshman year caused me to resent Republicans for a few more years as I grew older.
Becoming a Christian in 1978 was a major influence on my politics, not just my personal life. Seeing things from the perspective of Christianity brought me into agreement with most of the stated beliefs of conservatives. Oddly, I came full circle to the Republican side again!
But the conservative viewpoint is more logical and ultimately far kinder to people. In my opinion, of course!
Comment by radar @ 2/18/2006 - 9:23 pm