Whoops! Not Quite Yet

(And I might get in a post tomorrow morning before I leave.)

Y’all need to read this post by Anne Lieberman at her blog Boker Tov, Boulder! It was inspired by this thread at Michael J. Totten. Read the Totten thread first, but here’s an excerpt from Anne’s piece:

After years of being knee-jerk liberals who never considered or questioned, but just continued the line of politics we inherited at age 15, we started to investigate, study history and {gasp!} read differing opinions.

The first big shocker was the liberal bias of the media, the second was the inability of our families and friends to respond to change in the world with anything other than the old knee-jerk cliches, and the third has been the devastating revelation that the Left seems not have meant what it used to say. When push comes to shove, it doesn’t live up to its supposed ideals. The ideals, the values, are just as theoretical as the “issues.”

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I am ashamed to admit that as a reactionary liberal, I “hated” eveything and everybody conservative – Newt Gingrich,Oliver North, Bill Bennett etc.- without ever really knowing what they were about, without ever once really listening to what they had to say. Over a period of a couple of years I became more comfortable with FoxNews than with the New York Times and NPR, both of which I had previously held in The Very Highest Regard. (I still read the Times, but read the Wall Street Journal as well.)

Conservatives simply make more sense to me these days.

Still…faint…hope….Must…hold…on….

RTWT. It’s really good.