re: #391 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
My conversion was nothing like yours, but there was a time when I would consider GOP candidates based on their merits and occasionally voted for them.
Nowadays I would be less likely to vote for a GOP dogcatcher than for a senator or representative…
I grew up in a small town controlled mostly by the baptist church (with a smattering of catholics, methodists and presbyterians thrown in). My father listened to (and still listens to) rush limbaugh, hated clinton and I grew up much the product of that environment. Then I moved to california and everything began to change until about the time 9/11 happened and I even said “well, I’m glad we got bush instead of gore” even though I voted for Gore. Of course I also watched Fox news basically 24/7. I bought the whole thing hook line and sinker until the 2004 election season when I started waking up so to speak.