Ambrose Sums It Up

I actually read this on the editorial page of today's WSJ, but found it elsewhere on the Internet. Enjoy.

There's a theory about the development of the human species that we did not leave the trees millions of years ago to go scrambling about on the ground, but that the trees left us. The climate changed and they withered and died and we were forced to adapt.
That's pretty much how I feel about me and Democrats. I was raised a Democrat by staunchly Democratic parents and thought as a young man that here was a party that stood for principles — particularly, individual freedom, racial equality and helping the poor — that demanded my allegiance. I've tried never to leave those principles, but the Democrats did — and left me, too.