Tammy Bruce's defining moment and mine

I wish I remembered my defining moment as a conservative as clearly as Tammy Bruce remembers hers (Hat Tip: NY Joo via Twitter). I really do. Perhaps because my defining moment was not associated with cataclysmic world events like hers were, I don't remember it as well. But I can tell you approximately when it happened.It was sometime in the fall of 1980. I had just returned from two years in