His administration caused the nation major embarrassments with the taking of the embassy in Tehran, the failed rescue attempt and the Olympic boycott. Listening to one of President Ronald Reagan's State of the Union Speeches was the clincher. I remember sitting on the couch, what he said made sense. I never voted Democrat again. One thing we humans know, is that everything, everywhere throughout our universe changes.
Nothing stays the same.
I guess the same can be said for the political universe too. As people grow older the life experiences they go through changes their perception of politics. I had been proud to be a Democrat, but now I searched for a clean, crisp way of portraying the change that had occurred. On a Forth of July evening in Sacramento, California, amid the shower of neighborhood fireworks, I found the sound bite I was searching for. A friend's grown son asked me as he crumpled an empty beer can.