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"We were so busy just getting stuff done and dealing with the immediate crises that were in front of us that I think we lost some of that sense of speaking directly to the American people about what their core values are and why we have to make sure those institutions are matching up with those values."
-Obama, explaining recent Democrat losses, 1/20/10
Velvet Lair- The sexiness of winning the battle of good versus evil January 26, 2010
- Ever wonder why? January 12, 2010
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- Is my dad turning into a metrosexual? November 24, 2009
- My “Things To Do For Christmas” list November 23, 2009
About Sister Toldjah
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!
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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
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
, (remember, he ran as a conservative) and what the press claimed he meant 
, 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!!!)
Thanks David and congrats on your retirement
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.
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.
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.
I’ll check it out, Ronald. Thanks!
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.
Thanks yuanme! I’m rather fond of NC myself
Must’ve been John Hancock, right?
LOL – nope
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!
Disguise, not “diguise”. Sorry.
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LOL – thanks, John
I emerged unscathed, thankfully!
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.
Welcome to the ST blog, “D”
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.
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!
Thanks Amy – nice to meet you and to be blogging with you at California Conservative as well
Charlotte? No kiddin. I’m in Hickory.
Good to see a local blog.:smile:
I love your blog.
I was also a Democrat that has since “seen the light”…
Keep up the great work.
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
(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…
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!
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.
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.
Nice Blog. Too bad Raffy and Biggie don’t show up….
Lefty!
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”…
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.
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
Oh yeah.. this is an about page… nice blog… did I mention you were hot!
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.
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!
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
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!!
Thanks, US Vet, and welcome aboard!
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)
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!