The post in which I ramble about my own blog

I am coming up on my one-year blog-o-versary, so I thought I would share a little history of She's Right and talk a little about where the blog is headed. (I know, I am total dork.)

She's Right started out as a website (technically a blog, I suppose, but I was not familiar with that word yet) where I posted my political rantings on a weekly basis, beginning in 2001. I have been wanting to post some old She's Right, just so you could all see how much I have mellowed out. Let me put it this way, when my husband Bob, who was my boyfriend at the time, read it, he said that I reminded him of a columnist that he really likes named ... get this ... Ann Coulter!

Unfortunately, all of my old She's Right material is on a CD dump from my old PC, which I can't find anywhere. The only thing I do have is this one piece that I sent to opinioneditorials.com about Howard Dean and healthcare.

Once I became interested in being the Chair of the Burlington Republican Committee, I decided to take down She's Right because I thought it was too divisive.

Then in 2005, when I decided not to be the chair for another term, I approached Channel 17 about doing a live @5:25 show from the perspective of a conservative woman, since there were already two shows from the feminist perspective. A couple of my conservative woman friends thought it was a great idea and one, who used to read my old She's Right site, suggested that I call the show "She's Right."

I thought it was a great idea because I already owned the domain name and I wanted to have a website with information on the show.

The first She's Right aired in September of 2005.

Then in February of 2006, I received an e-mail from none other than Haik Bedrosian from BurlingtonPol.com, telling me to check out his blog for Burlington pols. I was hooked and shesright.blogspot.com was born on February 17, 2006.

Shortly after, I integrated the shesright.org site information with the blog and redirected that URL here. I saw no point in having a website and a blog with the same information.

Since its inception, this blog has evolved in many ways, but I guess that is to be expected because we, as people, evolve (and I don't mean from apes).

When I first got involved with politics it was because I wanted people to see that conservatives are not as bad as they are made out to be. I don't think I am evil. And I certainly am not greedy and rich.

I think that I have been at least mildly successful in getting other people to listen to me, even if they do not agree, and at least respect that I am not such a bad person.

I also stayed away from talking about my conversion to Christianity in recent years because, well, it is so stereo-typical for a conservative Republican to also be a Jesus freak.

I even started a separate, anonymous Christian blog called "In His Grace," but I found it too hard to keep up with three blogs. There are a handful of posts on it about my experience with the grace and love of Christ.

Now that cat is out of the bag that I am a Christian, maybe I can also work on changing people's views of Christians, the way I have tried to change people's views of Republicans.

I doubt that I could ever lead someone to Christ via a blog, but I would be satisfied with debunking the stereotypes that people hold about Christians. So, I am going to talk about religion issues a little more in what I hope will be a thoughtful and respectful way. (Okay, I know running a four part series entitled, "Things Said by Atheists that are Untrue or otherwise Irritating" was not a good start. That was meant to be a tongue-in-cheek jab at JD Ryan. How was I to know that it would be the most widely linked posts I ever did?)

I am going to be changing the layout a little over the next day or so and also updated the blog with a new subtitle/blog description. Feel free to share your feedback with me through comments or e-mail.

As always, I thank you for reading She's Right. Without people to read, there really is no point in having a blog, now, is there?