How many people here on DU were once rethugs/conservatives?

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14. I was President of our high school's Young Republican in 1983 and 1984

In the vein of Alex P. Keaton, I was President of our high school's Young Republican in 1983 and 1984.




After high school, the realization of precisely how each party platform differed from the other slowly dawned on me, and I happily cast my first Dem vote for Clinton in '92. Which was a bit odd, because at the same time and over the next four years, my roommate was shifting in the opposite direction-- he listened to Limbaugh, I was taking college history classes at night.

Afterward: He became a tea-bagger, a xenophobe, and hates the people/places/demographics that he's told to hate by the tin gods on AM radio. I see him twice a year on the July 4th, and as good as friends as we once were, he's simply not a person I'd want to spend any considerable amount of time with anymore.