On Jul 11, 2010, at 11:38 AM, Ann Davis wrote:

> So how many people have made that journey, from right to left?

I don't know, but I'm guessing very few. For me, the rightward sojourn was a 
pretty brief aberration. I became a "Marxist" in 8th grade - the quotes because 
you do have to wonder what kind of Marxist I was at that age. My detour on the 
right lasted from the final months of high school through the first months of 
my sophomore year in college. Of my old Party of the Right comrades, several 
became professional right-wingers. Grover "Rocky" Rees, POR chair, picked 
federal judges for Reagan, moved on to become the Chief Justice of American 
Samoa, then served as our first ambassador to East Timor under George W. 
Another, Walter Olson, was a Manhattan Institute fellow for years and is now at 
Cato; he's a major promoter of tort reform. Richard Brookheiser is a senior 
editor at National Review. I ran into one guy at the POR's 50th anniversary 
party five or six years ago who was the PR man for the reactionary Catholic 
League.

Doug
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