Answering a question...

An old friend, who is proud of the fact that an old Boston Globe Magazine test scored him to left of Ted Kennedy and just barely to the right of Jesse Jackson, asked when I became such a "radical conservative."

Well, first off, I identify myself more as a right leaning Libertarian, and some of my views would cause the Hard Conservative Right to have to nothing to do with me. My moderate views on abortion have the Hard Liberal Left calling for my blood as well.

It's also not so much a case of me moving far to the right (I'll admit some movement in my direction), as a case of the Left moving really fornicating far to the extremist loopy Left.

Moderate democrats like Senators Sam Nunn and Daniel Patrick Moynihan were replaced with far left extremists with serious ties to big soft money lobby groups like HRC and Schumer.

Self-proclaimed liberals, highly educated, supposedly patriotic Americans, admitted wishing for increased US Military deaths. Just so they would feel justified in their political views. There is something fundamentally wrong with that.

The "radical" left has also become what they so often accuse the Right of being. Since their political foes won't act the way liberal extremists want them to, the leftists commit the hate crimes themselves and blame the innocent.

The ACLU is defending NAMBLA and attacking the Boy Scouts. I know multi-generation New England democrats, who have the picture of JFK next to the one of Jesus, scratching their heads and asking who in the ACLU decided that having your head up your ass is now a requirement for working there.

The left is also in a serious case of denial. The fact is the George W. Bush won, twice. He won every recount in Florida back in 2000, despite the democrat attempts generate votes from so-called "pregnant chads" and denying the crystal clear intent votes of US Service Men and Women serving overseas. In 2004, the number of votes he received went up from the 2000 count in 49 states! I wasn't much of a GW Bush fan in 2000. He had that whole "my daddy's oil money paid for my expensive prep school and his political connections got me into an Ivy League college where I had a very good time" thing in common with Algore. Since then, I've decided I'd much rather have him in office than the candidates the democrats put up.

People who identify themselves as "progressive, compassionate liberals" don't think twice about wearing a shirt with a picture of a brutal murderer, who sent children barely into their teens, to the firing squad. These same "progressive, compassionate liberals" would be screaming themselves blue if someone did the equivalent, wearing a shirt with Adolf Hitler's picture to a synagogue, for example.

The far left extremist branch of the democrat party is continuing to drag their party away from the mainstream of America (as show in the last Presidential election, where a record turnout benefited the Republican, instead of the democrat, as the "conventional wisdom" put forth by the MSM kept telling us for years). That is a real shame. The Republican party keeps proving that oh-so true quip by P.J. O'Rourke right. (In case you haven't heard it: The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.) They need a valid opposition party to balance them out, and the democrats are not stepping up to the plate.