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Letter of Amends from a Recovering Liberal in Berkeley
American Thinker ^ | May 11 2009 | Robin

Posted on 05/15/2009 12:00:57 PM PDT by my_pointy_head_is_sharp

Dear friends, family, loved ones, conservatives, Republicans, libertarians, my brother in law, Sam, and my cousin Joe: I am sorry and you were right.

These are not easy words for anyone to utter, much less a leftist from Berkeley, or a recovering leftist, that is. Even though I've been in recovery for 14 months, 2 weeks, and 3 days, leftists are always right in your face, in an I-hate-you-if-you-disagree sort of way. Hence, this letter of amends to all the people I've lectured, scolded, ranted and raved at, and otherwise annoyed during my 30 plus years of "progressive" politics.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: robinofberkeley

1 posted on 05/15/2009 12:00:57 PM PDT by my_pointy_head_is_sharp
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To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp
We need a whole lot more mea culpas like this.

BTW, I wonder if Robin will acknowledge that Hillary is part of the same Thug-aucracy that victimized her?

2 posted on 05/15/2009 12:07:48 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp

good one! Thanks.


3 posted on 05/15/2009 12:08:20 PM PDT by Ditter
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To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp

Good article, though too sensible to be persuasive to any liberals.


4 posted on 05/15/2009 12:11:12 PM PDT by ThePythonicCow (Mooo !!)
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To: skeeter
We need a whole lot more mea culpas like this.

Really? :::whimper::: people were mean to me, so I changed my whole world view!

Does this person have ANY substance at all?

5 posted on 05/15/2009 12:13:08 PM PDT by Dianna (Obama Barbie: Governing is hard.)
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To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp

While such conversions are encouraging to read, I still don’t believe that we will see a mass exodus from the democrats.

For one thing, the republican party doesn’t stand for anything anymore...so when you leave the democrats and find that the republican party is trying to figure out how to be a lite-version of the democrats, its difficult to get excited about your conversion.


6 posted on 05/15/2009 12:15:52 PM PDT by kidd (Obama: The triumph of hope over evidence)
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To: Dianna
Does this person have ANY substance at all?

Now, now....the container's been filling with substance for 14 months, 2 weeks, and 3 days

7 posted on 05/15/2009 12:16:36 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Pretending the Admin Moderator doesn't exist will result in suspension.)
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To: Dianna
people were mean to me

It's not that people were mean to her. It's that she noticed that the Liberals themselves were mean. She finally saw them for the soul-sucking totalitarians they are.

8 posted on 05/15/2009 12:22:52 PM PDT by my_pointy_head_is_sharp (...Mohammedanism...the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog...)
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To: Dianna

Really. She noticed her liberal friends were frothing at the mouth hypocrites. I have no problem with her about-face at all.


9 posted on 05/15/2009 12:26:30 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp
Wow. Most of us who survived the 60s got the Unicorn snot out of our heads a long time ago. It took her decades. Glad she finally did (some never do) but really.

If she really wants to make progress she needs to now join the NRA.

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10 posted on 05/15/2009 12:32:23 PM PDT by wastoute (translation of tag "Come and get them (bastards)" and the Scout Motto)
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Exactly. It’s not “people are mean to me.” It’s “there is great hypocrisy going on here. Democrats don’t stand for what I thought they did.”


11 posted on 05/15/2009 12:41:08 PM PDT by Marie2 (The second mouse gets the cheese.)
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To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp

That was a refreshing read. It reminds me somewhat of my own journey “home” to conservatism.

Bill Clinton helped me to see the razor wire of the liberal mind control plantation. He forced me to see the light, much as the Obamination has helped Robin to emerge from the darkness.


12 posted on 05/15/2009 2:28:10 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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