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Taken from InsideCatholic.com.

“Bobby Kennedy was dying. Emergency workers rushed him into the back of a waiting ambulance, accompanied by just two people. One was his wife, Ethel; the other, his de facto campaign chairman, Fred Dutton. No one else — neither friend nor family — rode along. But Dutton’s presence at that moment was no anomaly; few were closer to RFK that year than he.

It’s not hard to guess why Kennedy liked and admired Dutton. The two shared many similarities: Both in their mid-40s, they had each served in World War II and worked in the John Kennedy administration. Though Dutton didn’t share Kennedy’s good looks — he was balding and wore thick, black, wayfarer-style glasses — their similarities outweighed the superficial differences.

The only thing they disagreed on — and the one thing they never talked about — was the future of Catholics in the Democratic Party. Kennedy wanted to ensure their pride of place in the Democratic coalition; Dutton did not.

Rather, his reasons for wanting to leave Catholics out of the Democratic coalition were moral and political. He believed Catholics were too culturally conservative and had voted too heavily for Richard Nixon in key swing states. (In fact, Democratic nominee Hubert Humphrey won almost three-fifths of the Catholic vote.)

In 1968, Dutton gained a reputation as the chief theoretician of the New Politics — the idea that the Democrats should be based on a coalition of “campus, ghetto, and suburb.”Based on Changing Sources of Power, as well as interviews that Dutton granted with me and others, it’s fair to conclude that Dutton deserves another reputation: He was the first major Democratic official who sought to loosen Catholics’ historic ties with the Democratic Party — and as a consequence, turned them into Reagan Democrats.”

Isn’t it strange how one or two people can change the direction of an American political party. Since I registered as a Democrat back in the days before the party took a hard left turn and left me standing here, and since I voted for Reagan, I am a Reagan Democrat.

I simply pull all the “R”’s on election day cause the “D”’s have all lost their minds. (There maybe be a few who are okay … I just don’t know any).

Sometimes the worm turns. My brother-in-law the Barking Moonbat, says he is voting for McCain. Why I can’t say for sure cause that would involve talking to him … but I expect it has to do with the total insanity of the dem party and what they have come to.

I have never heard of this guy Dutton .. but the time line is about right for my emerging as a conservative and voting Republican.