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by Andy Is Wicked Married to Penal Colony on June 18th, 2004
It seems that he just became more conservative over the course of his life. Perhaps this is best answered in his own words:
Asked why he, an ardent New Deal liberal in his youth, had turned away from the Democratic Party, Reagan said simply: "I didn’t leave the Democratic Party. It left me."
A funny anecdote on the subject:
On a rare slow news day during his Presidency an NBC news crew, following a White House meeting of GOP and Democratic leaders, walked around the great now-empty table and began noting the doodles that each leader had made on a notepad. Democrats, the reporter showed, mostly had drawn doodles of animals or human faces. Republicans had drawn geometric forms, squares within squares or the like – with one exception. Republican President Ronald Reagan had drawn faces and animals. He doodled like a Democrat!
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Interesting.
by Jodie44 on October 22nd, 2006