This is why the US has become so partisan. The left thinks anyone right of center is a religious, environment ruining, tobacco chewing, gun toting wing nut. While the right thinks anyone left of center is a tree-hugging, affirmative action supporting, lawsuit happy, hippy loving, neo-socialist idiot who believes SUV's are killing the earth. Not all of my beliefs are right of center. It is a handful of core beliefs that keep me voting libertarian and Republican.
I'm not pro-life but, I don't believe abortion should be used as birth control.
I'm anti-affirmative action.
I not against gun legislation. Just against banning guns.
The liberals have hijacked the Democratic party. There was a time when the Democratic party was not associated with liberalism at all. Democratic President's have led us in wartime. It isn't the Dems that are bad. It is the liberals who have infected the Democratic party. Biden is not a bad guy and probably would get my vote out of all of the Democrats out there. He tries to pay Barack a compliment and gets painted a bigot. He has to apoligize not because he said anything objectionable. He had to apologize because of they way his words were perceived. That is the big fucking problem. Liberals have invented the term politically correct and have infected our country with it. We are force fed every black milestone like, "first black coach in the Super Bowl" but cannot say that someone is a good clean black man. All we ever hear about is Tiger Woods being black. Guess what? Tiger is half Asian too! I hear about how Tiger doesn't do enough for the black community. I don't hear any Asians whining about Tiger not doing enough for them. That might be because the Asians aren't the ones that have been taught to stand there with their hands out.
Nowadays, a career can be ruined just based on how someone interprets what you said. This is what has happened to the Democratic party. They have become such a large portion of the Democratic base that in order to stay in office, you need to pander to these people. If you don't believe me, look at the Presidential election results during the time most of us have walked this earth. With the exception of Clinton, when was the last time there was a 2-term Democratic president? If Bush's father had been a bit better at campaigning, we may not have even had Clinton. That's just my opinion. I could be wrong.
It's unlikely that I will admit it though...