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I am a recovering Democrat. I was a true leftist. I didn't even date Republicans. However, I fell madly in love with my Republican husband 15 years ago (still mad about the guy). My family was extremely amused. I set out to convert my husband to a Democratic, liberal way of thinking (leftists are very arrogant). I started with Rush Limbaugh. I asked my husband why he liked Rush; after all Rush was a woman hating rightwing crazy. My husband asked me if I had ever listened to the show. I was insulted. Of course, I did not listen to this terrible show. My husband opined that perhaps I should not judge a show if I had never listened to it. I began listening to Rush. To my surpise,Rush did not hate women, and he was very funny. I began to notice that liberals consistently lied about Rush and other conservative. When the Berlin wall fell, I began to think maybe Reagan had been correct to call the Soviet Union "the evil empire". I had never been exposed to conservative thought. Then, Clinton was elected president. I watched President Clinton steal FBI files, lie constantly and ruin a man's life for no reason (Billy Dale -travelgate). In 1994, I became a Republican and placed my husband's signed picture of President Reagan in a prominent place in our home.