Clinton the Republican

I voted for Bill Clinton in 1992.

Last major party candidate I ever voted for.

As a civil libertarian (I scored North-West the first time I took the WSPQ) who remembered Nixon and Watergate as the major event of childhood and then came of age under Reagan and Bush, I associated the GOP with Big Brother and militarism. I voted Democrat every chance I got (almost) until one of them actually won. Then I felt burned.

It was Clinton who taught me that the problem is government itself, not who's in charge.

In the years between 1992 and 1999, I heard a lot of this from the Left:

"Bill Clinton is the best
Republican president
we've ever had."

Right on!

Or, um, maybe kinda on and kinda off. I agreed with the leftists (of which I then considered myself one) because that sumbitch didn't give a damn about privacy (or any other "civil" liberty), was centralizing everything, and starting little wars all over the place.

But that's not what the lefties meant. They meant that that sumbitch wasn't enough of a socialist.

So much for common cause.