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My best friend is somewhere around Michael Moore in terms of his politics, though more rational so we actually can discuss things.

Most of the cute girls I either hung out with or dated in college were already conservative, or I converted them.

Well, there's the saying that there's only one good reason for a guy to be a feminist....

My crowning achievement was converting my very own sister from a frothing "keep your politics off my body!" pro-abortion, NOW type to a Bob Dole voter(Bob Dole, of all people! The most boring candidate since Walter Mondale!) in one month in '96. She's now a staunch Republican and Rush fanatic, LOL!

But my favorite will always be the girls who lived next door to our frat house. They decided to throw an Earth Day party in '91 or '92. They were all radical feminists and faithful liberals, so as they were decorating their house with eco-whacko symbols, I asked, as we, being the masters of such matters were tapping the keg and testing to make sure the beer was fresh, what type of cups they'd use to serve the beer. They jumped headfirst into the trap.

They pulled out a couple of packages of styrofoam cups. Now, styrofoam is not the preferred container for any beer connoisseur. But I asked them how they could possibly justify using such a non-biodregradable container as styrofoam on Earth Day?! They suddenly realized that I was right! "Jen, get the receipt and bring these back to the store and exchange them for paper cups!" Paper cups?! Your cutting down the rainforests! They were in a solid conundrum for about 5 minutes before they realized I was making a point at their expense. I had my glass beer mug from the frat house and I could have cared less what they drank their beer in. ;^)

If I didn't swing those girls to the conservative point of view, I was usually able to put enough doubt into their heads about the RATS that they either stayed home on election day, or voted third party.