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Posted: 10/12/2005 6:29:42 PM EDT
[#1]
Sorry, not a conservative as typically defined...
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Posted: 10/12/2005 6:30:29 PM EDT
[#2]
My dad. Hardcore military fighter pilot. He got me started, basic observation and common sense continued it.
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Posted: 10/12/2005 6:30:38 PM EDT
[#3]
Common sense made me a conservative.
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Posted: 10/12/2005 6:31:00 PM EDT
[#4]
Rational thought.
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Posted: 10/12/2005 6:32:29 PM EDT
[#5]
PS did you mean "bourgeois" in your sig line?
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Posted: 10/12/2005 6:35:40 PM EDT
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19 muslims, a little over 4 years ago
 Actually, that just further cemented a pretty traditional upbringing. My parents were fairly conservative...all my uncles on both side of the family served in the military. I was brought up the old fashioned way, and frankly I have come to see it as the 'right' way. The past several years have pretty much solidified my feeling toward conservatism, religion, and civic responsibility. |
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Posted: 10/12/2005 6:43:40 PM EDT
[#7]
God
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Posted: 10/12/2005 6:45:37 PM EDT
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Afplayboy....he really helped me see things that i was sheltered from when living with my mother.
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Posted: 10/12/2005 6:46:25 PM EDT
[#9]
Intelligence.
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Posted: 10/12/2005 6:46:58 PM EDT
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I honestly think it's natural, something ingrained in me. I aped my dad's politics in grade school, he's a typical liberal. Hates American foreign policy, never misses a chance to diss the USA in front of foreigners, hates Ronald Reagan and nukes.
But whenever we'd bomb Khadaffy or invade Panama or Greneda, I would cheer and think "All right! Get some!" My dad would start wailing about what bullies we were picking on poor Libya, etc. I wondered what his problem was. I acquiesced for a while and just figured he knew more than me, being my dad and all and reading all those magazines and newsletters he got in the mail. No one person influenced me, either personally known or an author, about my political orientation. I just naturally gravitated towards my right wing worldview. Taking economics and seeing left-wing economic ideas debunked explicitly was pretty much the final nail in the coffin and confirmed me for life. |
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Posted: 10/12/2005 6:47:57 PM EDT
[#11]
God
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Posted: 10/12/2005 6:48:01 PM EDT
[#12]
+1 Libtards reinforce my thoughts.  |
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Posted: 10/12/2005 6:48:22 PM EDT
[#13]
democraps made me this way
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Posted: 10/12/2005 6:49:36 PM EDT
[#14]
Yeah. I found different spellings for it. I was trying to be ironic. Spelling has never been one of my strong subjects. |
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Posted: 10/12/2005 6:52:37 PM EDT
[#15]
Bill and Hillary Clinton.
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Posted: 10/12/2005 6:53:46 PM EDT
[#16]
democrates
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Posted: 10/12/2005 6:54:31 PM EDT
[#17]
I do not subscribe to the following and more...
*gay rights *bigotry masked as "equal rights", "oppression", etc. *socialism in general *government assistance as a career *redistribution of wealth *the feeling that national pride is something to be ashamed of *that the founding fathers ment something OTHER than what they wrote ETA: oops, the question was who? Coming from nothing, being raised by a strong mother, and working hard to be where I am. Thanks Mom. |
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Posted: 10/12/2005 6:54:40 PM EDT
[#18]
Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Ted Kennedy, Feinswine et al.
I was always really more of a libertarian than a conservative, but it wasn't until the GOP regained power and spent all its time on social engineering and nation building that I stopped considering myself a republican. Neoconservatism is just as collectivist as neoliberalism. So, what to do? |
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Posted: 10/12/2005 6:54:51 PM EDT
[#19]
I grew up.
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Posted: 10/12/2005 6:55:17 PM EDT
[#20]
It's a toss up between my father and Mr. F.I.C.A. when I got my first paycheck.
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Posted: 10/12/2005 6:55:33 PM EDT
[#21]
I'm not a conservative, but to the OP, it depends how old you are. I think everybody was like that sixty or so years ago. I think the US has gone down the tubes not because of gay marriage and less God in public schools, but because of too much importance of one-upping your neighbors with flashy goods and services and the ease of which one can go into debt. Credit cards, and the seventies started it all . . .
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Posted: 10/12/2005 6:56:17 PM EDT
[#22]
My Dad and Cub Scouts
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Posted: 10/12/2005 6:59:10 PM EDT
[#23]
I stopped watching tv and started thinking.
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Posted: 10/12/2005 6:59:49 PM EDT
[#24]
Growing up and seeing what idiots hippies were (are)
and Ronald Reagan and US Marines and...... |
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Posted: 10/12/2005 7:02:26 PM EDT
[#25]
... Dad (Marine)
... It's peculiar because he's swayed off hard-right toward center a bit as he's aged. |
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Posted: 10/12/2005 7:03:09 PM EDT
[#26]
Ronald Reagan
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Posted: 10/12/2005 7:04:08 PM EDT
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My parents. I have never known another way.
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Posted: 10/12/2005 7:07:14 PM EDT
[#28]
Who says I'm a conservative? I'm a classical liberal, or small "L" libertarian. I believe in the greatest freedom for the greatest number, but I also believe in the personal responsibility that goes along with that freedom.
Conservatism is largely about control. Then again, so is Leftism, which has largely co-opted and rebadged liberalism as something that it most emphatically never was. |
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Posted: 10/12/2005 7:08:59 PM EDT
[#29]
My grandpa instilled the values, Ronald Regan solidified them (Even though I was young (4 or 5) I can still remember "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" and the cold war fears that still lingered some at that time period.
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Posted: 10/12/2005 7:10:29 PM EDT
[#30]
Jimmy Carter
Both of my parents were Democrats, dad was a union guy. I finally opened my father's eyes in 2000, at the age of 61. The first vote of my life was for Ronald Reagan. |
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Posted: 10/12/2005 7:11:09 PM EDT
[#31]
William F. Buckley
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Posted: 10/12/2005 7:14:29 PM EDT
[#32]
People do tend to do that. The problem with the hard right isn't that they're wrong, not usually anyway, it's that they don't address some fundamental issues that mitigate the truth of their message. (monetary issues, the lack of free market interest rates, the benefits granted to capital when capital wins elections, the inconsistencies on issues of liberty, the list is quite long). All this gives fuel to the left. After a few decades things that seem simple and fundamentally true on their face start to get hazy when they don't seem to work out, particularly if you're never exposed to the arguements outside the democrat/republican collectivist box. When you try to compromise between communism and capitalism you end up with the worst of all worlds, a bastardized soft fascism on the right and an even softer socialism on the left. |
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Posted: 10/12/2005 7:20:44 PM EDT
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Posted: 10/12/2005 7:22:41 PM EDT
[#34]
Who made me a conservative?
Vietnam Era Hippies, Ted Kennedy and all the other Democraptic Party Military bashers, Oh yea they support the troops alright, just before or after they cowardly call them "Babykillers under their breath, The ACLU, Whiney Northeastern Limo liberals ...............Shall I go on?........................... |
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Posted: 10/12/2005 7:25:53 PM EDT
[#35]
The German in me makes me want to conquer the world, and because Dems never want to do anything but eat and fuck, I'm Republican by default.
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Posted: 10/12/2005 7:29:43 PM EDT
[#36]
Reading William F. Buckley, Jr. as a young man.
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Posted: 10/12/2005 7:32:53 PM EDT
[#37]
I can honestly say God, my mom was fairly liberal in my younger years. My dad was fairly moderate. Both disaproved of guns, although my dad grew up hunting and shooting. My mom turned him from the truth I think.
I grew up with a natural fascination with weapons growing up. I was the kid in class checking out all the books from the library about anything military, drawing M16's in my notes, ect. My mom wouldnt let me have a BB gun until I was 14, even though my dad had a locker full of guns from when he was younger that he never touched. I became a Christian about the age of 14 and thats when I really saw the light of conservitism I think. The mentuors that I had did help guide me through seeing the wourld in a more conservitive light, but alot of it was also my own common sense. Those same folks that helped me grow as a christian also taught me to hunt and shoot. Long story short, im 19, and have a very large gunsafe that is nearly full. Including evil things like AR's and all of that fun stuff. My Dad has once again started to see the light and is a tried and true conservitive, although he still hasnt gotten a gun set up in case of a break in. In fact he has a baseball bat under his bed and a little emergency button that he thinks is going to keep him safe.   But im working on him about it. So unfortunately if anyone breaks in its my full responsibility to drop the badguy(and I am prepaired so dont try anything ) My mom is coming around slightly, but I dont think she will ever see the world from a true conservitive viewpiont, too much of a bleading heart. I still love my mom though.Well thats the story of how BuckeyeRifleman became a conservitive! |
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Posted: 10/12/2005 7:38:15 PM EDT
[#38]
My parents are both values-based conservatives. But it was the doing of the looney left that pushed me into it the most.
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Posted: 10/12/2005 7:38:51 PM EDT
[#39]
First I was taught to be honest. The rest just followed.
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Posted: 10/12/2005 7:46:36 PM EDT
[#40]
Hatred of overreaching authority mostly, made aware of what socialism was all about as a teen, also gun control, and the simple fact I always had to work for what I wanted and never expected help.
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Posted: 10/12/2005 7:50:26 PM EDT
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Posted: 10/12/2005 7:55:22 PM EDT
[#42]
My grandmother, now 92. But I 'm no neocon. More libertarian.
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Posted: 10/12/2005 7:55:37 PM EDT
[#43]
My balls.
They dropped. |
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Posted: 10/12/2005 7:57:36 PM EDT
[#44]
Ronald W. Reagan.
 Thanks Gipper. You'll never be forgotten. |
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Posted: 10/12/2005 8:00:57 PM EDT
[#45]
I don't consider myself a "conservative", even though I've never voted anything but a straight Republican ticket...more of a small "l" libertarian.
I like freedom. The Dimocraps don't seem to like it as much as I do. |
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Posted: 10/12/2005 8:02:05 PM EDT
[#46]
The Iranian hostage crisis made me question what was really going on in the world. I was 8 when Vietnam was over, noone wanted to talk about it, so I did not grow up with that burden.
Socially, watching TV. I hated being beaten over the head with modern day morality plays like 3's company or Different Strokes. I remember the last time I watched this stuff, 25 years ago, when a sitcom built up to a future mother in law denouncing her "Dago" future daugher in law to loud and prolonged canned boos. Really made me think about just how much in common I had with liberal thinking. It was cemented in the military, surrounded with like minded folks. |
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Posted: 10/12/2005 8:03:24 PM EDT
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Sorry, I couldn't bring myself to slander Mr. Reagan by including this fat ass' picture in the same reply.
It is people like this idiot, Carter, Hanoi Jane, Kerry, Kennedy, protesters, and so many others that solidified my stance.  
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Posted: 10/12/2005 8:03:52 PM EDT
[#48]
Maybe until 9th grade, I believed all the liberal bullshit, especially when it came to things like social security, affirmative action, and gun control.
I'd say knowledge, experience, and common sense has made me conservative |
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Posted: 10/12/2005 8:11:19 PM EDT
[#49]
My neighbors Labrador Retriever named Harvey convinced me.
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Posted: 10/12/2005 8:13:19 PM EDT
[#50]
I was born that way. I was a Conservative before i even knew what it was. I had no introduction whatsoever to politics or anything else for that matter. Same way with being obsessed with guns and all things military, i was born with it. Honestly.
I do remember hearing, "democrats are more for the middle/little man" That was all the answers i got about politics. 
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