I was in my senior year of highschool. Government was a required class that year. It was also an election year. It was the year Ronald Reagan won. Our teacher was so excited for the election year. We spent the entire year about the election. What the candidates stood for. What the parties stood for. We learned about the Congress and the Senate. How Bill's are presented and either become law or hit the trash can. That class was how I formed my political opinions. I tend to be a little more conservative although I did vote for Bill Clinton.

I was definitely influenced by people I grew up with and respected. My father before he died, and my maternal grandfather. Neither were overbearing but their positions made sense to me. Teachers and professors showed me many different outlooks, some I agreed with and some I abhorred.

With time and life's experience......observation and searching for what made sense to me, I developed my own outlook. Eventually similar to those of my grandfather, but still unique to myself.

In politics, the squeaky wheel gets the graft. I have never liked lying or dishonesty. It did not take me long, once I got to college to understand Democrats were a problem that I did not like.

When I developed common sense and discovered that liberal are fools.