NJP411
08-11-2013, 10:10 PM
I'm Nicole, born in/raised in Massachusetts, moved to Texas last year. When people ask "why did you move to Texas" my response is simple- "Liberty".
About me:
In the spring of 2008, I took a political science course. As part of the course, students were placed in a political internship of their choice. I chose the Democratic City Committee of Philadelphia, under the chairmanship of Democrat Congressman Robert Brady. I later volunteered on the Hillary Clinton for President campaign and assisted in bringing Chelsea Clinton to La Salle University for a campaign event. It was the natural progression for me to then vote for Barack Obama as president in the 2008 general election. I was caught up in the idea of hope and change, even though I didn’t actually know what I was hoping to change.
I can pinpoint my political transformation from uninformed Liberal to Tea Party Conservative to November 2009 through January 2010. At the time, I was a resident of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts away at an out of state school and voted via Absentee Ballot in the Senate special election that ultimately saw Scott Brown elected. I voted for Martha Coakley. That was the last vote for a Democrat that I ever cast. What happened between late November 2009 and January 2010 was that I began watching the news and reading. Every summer since 2005, I have read Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, but it was not until I began reading authors like Smith, Hayek, Friedman, and the Founding Fathers that everything I had believed and agreed with in Ayn Rand’s fictional world began to make sense as it related to the America I lived in. I realized, rather abruptly, that I did not believe in the fundamental transformation of America that the President and the Congress wanted to see occur. I believed in the principles of the free market, limited government, and above all else, the Constitution of the United States. From that point on, I committed myself to advancing the ideals of limited government and freedom in Massachusetts- a difficult task to be sure, especially for a 20-year-old college student. I became involved in the local tea party movements, even speaking at a minimum of one event per month in the Boston area.
That was 3 years ago, and I've spent the past three years bouncing between center-right, war hawk neocon, libertarian leaner, and so on.
And then I decided to start reading again. Went back to the basics, re-read Rand, Hayek, Friedman, Goldwater, etc.
When I recently (at the start of the 113th congress) started looking into the backgrounds of the members of congress that I like it hit me like a ton of bricks- they are pretty much all liberty guys, and most of them were endorsed by Dr. Paul at some point. I've been lurking since then.
About me:
In the spring of 2008, I took a political science course. As part of the course, students were placed in a political internship of their choice. I chose the Democratic City Committee of Philadelphia, under the chairmanship of Democrat Congressman Robert Brady. I later volunteered on the Hillary Clinton for President campaign and assisted in bringing Chelsea Clinton to La Salle University for a campaign event. It was the natural progression for me to then vote for Barack Obama as president in the 2008 general election. I was caught up in the idea of hope and change, even though I didn’t actually know what I was hoping to change.
I can pinpoint my political transformation from uninformed Liberal to Tea Party Conservative to November 2009 through January 2010. At the time, I was a resident of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts away at an out of state school and voted via Absentee Ballot in the Senate special election that ultimately saw Scott Brown elected. I voted for Martha Coakley. That was the last vote for a Democrat that I ever cast. What happened between late November 2009 and January 2010 was that I began watching the news and reading. Every summer since 2005, I have read Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, but it was not until I began reading authors like Smith, Hayek, Friedman, and the Founding Fathers that everything I had believed and agreed with in Ayn Rand’s fictional world began to make sense as it related to the America I lived in. I realized, rather abruptly, that I did not believe in the fundamental transformation of America that the President and the Congress wanted to see occur. I believed in the principles of the free market, limited government, and above all else, the Constitution of the United States. From that point on, I committed myself to advancing the ideals of limited government and freedom in Massachusetts- a difficult task to be sure, especially for a 20-year-old college student. I became involved in the local tea party movements, even speaking at a minimum of one event per month in the Boston area.
That was 3 years ago, and I've spent the past three years bouncing between center-right, war hawk neocon, libertarian leaner, and so on.
And then I decided to start reading again. Went back to the basics, re-read Rand, Hayek, Friedman, Goldwater, etc.
When I recently (at the start of the 113th congress) started looking into the backgrounds of the members of congress that I like it hit me like a ton of bricks- they are pretty much all liberty guys, and most of them were endorsed by Dr. Paul at some point. I've been lurking since then.