When did you Quit being a Liberal?

Question

For me it was 30 years old, entering the job market in a serious way after college..seeing the real world and growing up!

How old were you?

BTW..please no ignorant rants from the left...we know where you "stand" on the issues..this question is for the x-liberal's

Answer 1

When Ronald Reagan asked the question during his campaign. "Do you think all are problems are because we don't pay enough in taxes and don't have enough government programs or is the problem the government is too big and spends too much of our money." That sunk in.

Paying more taxes wasn't going to solve anything, and a program for every problem just created more problems.

Answer 2

I became a liberal when President Clinton started the greatest economy ever.

"My colleagues and I have been very appreciative of your [President Clinton's] support of the Fed over the years, and your commitment to fiscal discipline has been instrumental in achieving what in a few weeks will be the longest economic expansion in the nation's history."
Alan Greenspan,
Federal Reserve Board Chairman,
January 4, 2000,
at Chairman Greenspan's re-nomination announcement
"The deficit has come down, and I give the Clinton Administration and President Clinton himself a lot of credit for that. [He] did something about it, fast. And I think we are seeing some benefits."
Paul Volcker,
Federal Reserve Board Chairman (1979-1987),
in Audacity, Fall, 1994
One of the reasons Goldman Sachs cites for the "best economy ever" is that "on the policy side, trade, fiscal, and monetary policies have been excellent, working in ways that have facilitated growth without inflation. The Clinton Administration has worked to liberalize trade and has used any revenue windfalls to reduce the federal budget deficit."
Goldman Sachs, March, 1998
"Clinton's 1993 budget cuts, which reduced projected red ink by more than $400 billion over five years, sparked a major drop in interest rates that helped boost investment in all the equipment and systems that brought forth the New Age economy of technological innovation and rising productivity."
Business Week, May 19, 1997

Answer 3

I haven't. I never will. Why is being liberal a immature, uneducated look at the world? Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin were liberals and they certainly were not immature or uneducated

Answer 4

When I realized that marxism was a better alternative...

Proletarians of all countries, UNITE! You have nothing to lose but your chains, you have a world to gain...

Answer 5

Mine was when i saw Bill Clinton taking down the national debt. I didn't like that, it underminded the arrogant nature of the country.

arrogance is what the USA is all about. btw, screw france and mexico we should invade

I'm not really republican if you hadn't guessed

Answer 6

I AM ANTI REPUBLICAN ..I HATE YOUR PARTY..I AM NOT A LIBERAL I JUST HATE THE NO GOOD FOR NOTHING LYING CONNIVING REPUBLICANS LEADERSHIP .THEIR WAR,THEIR ENVIRONMENTAL POSITIONS AND THEIR LACK OF HEALTH CARE INITIATIVES.