I really do laugh to myself when people try make me out to be some brain washed  ultra conservative.  I believe in the traditional values of this country, but that doesn’t make me some knuckle dragging brain dead imbecile who can’t see past his nose.  It also doesn’t make me less progressive. The end of slavery was a  progressive concept, the rights of women was a progressive concept. However, I don’t believe in progressing our country to death, or to the point where our fundamental principles are compromised.