ChuckTaylor

With you guy! I said I was a Republican (if you didn't catch it). I have been a Card Carrying Libertarian for over 20 years now. I am a free market Conservative (believe in free enterprise and as little government meddling as possible.) but I am still pretty strong on family values and small town government. During my 30 years active duty in the USMC I did a lot of partying too. The advantage there was it was mostly with other Marines, most of whom were in tune politically. After I retired I found it hard to "socialize" with civilian acquaintances because of the more worldly views they espoused.

When I entered public school teaching, I expected to find teachers to be mostly Liberal. In fact, most high school teachers are very Conservative and very protective of small business (most of their husbands are small businessmen!) They also tend to be very religious family people.

After living in cities most of my life, I found that I had to move to a small town/rural environment to find the type of friends I was really comfortable with.

Don't worry about the age reference, it is the standard knee jerk reaction from us old farts!

 
 
"A man has got to know his limitations"
Inspector Harry Callihan SFPD