Ron Paul Changed My Life...
I was a hardcore partisan democrat before I found out about Ron Paul. When I first saw him in the Republican debates in '07, I marveled at the levels of logic, compassion, sound thinking, and common sense he exhibited. He seemed to dislike war, Imperialism, and torture even more than most of the Democratic candidates running at that time, which instantly won me over. His message moved me so much that, even though I'd never been interested in economics before, I started voraciously reading anything I could find by Murray Rothbard and other Austrian schoolers.
What's even more amazing is that I've asked around, and I'm far from the only person who's had an experience like this. Many people who used to be rabid liberals or neoconservatives have been brought over to a more complete and consistent philosophy of liberty through the Paul campaign. If all this change can come just from one Presidential race, one that didn't even end in a party nomination for Dr. Paul, imagine what we could do in 2012!