Last week I decided to read his posting history back to 2002 to see if maybe someone took over his screen name at some point.
What I found was a sincere (moderate to conservative) person who went through a difficult personal time in 2002-2003, reconnected with his religious beliefs, and moved forward with his life. However, sometime during the McCain campaign something seems to have "broken" and he started to become antagonistic towards others. His postings got fewer and farther between (I'm talking 9-12 months between posts for a few years) and then went from thought-out pieces to one-liners and digs at others as we moved through the Romney campaign and into the Trump presidency.
I don't know why, but I also don't think anymore that he's left-wing plant. He's just gotten angry or disillusioned in his late 60s.
-PJ
p.s. courtesy ping to Joesbucks
As for my political beliefs, those began changing as I realized there was a growing reliance on dirty operatives instead of winning based on ideas for a better country. And I saw early on that people on the Democratic side that were being attacked for failed family values and integrity that in our mind should be disqualified to serve would emerge on our side and be embraced. If a liberal claimed Jewish lasers caused wildfires we’d be howling lefty lunacy. We were all aghast that our children were hearing about oral sex and yet support a rep who tells a reporter to F off.
Remember Limbaugh’s kook test? Yet as time went on, he morphed into pushing the same things that he once said made someone a kook.
Look where we’re at. We’ve become them. And while it’s much more complicated, that is largely why I’ve morphed over the years. I guess to boil it down, conservatives are no longer the honest broker.