What Made You Change Politically?

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

The events of Bush's second term largely defined a lot of the issues that I emphasize (competence, transparency and opposing corruption/gerrymandering, immigration and the economy). Around that time, I did abandon both blanket protectionism and became pro-life, both were a break from the biggest defining political influence in my family, my mother who is from a ancestrally rural PA Republican family) both were a result of independent reflection and not some event or outside influence. Ironically she has moved to right on many issues particularly since Obama has come into office and has always been rather militantly "deport them all" on immigration.