Hey,

If you get the chance follow the link below.  It will tell more or less where I sit politically.  The article is by John Hawkins, a personal hero of mine.  And I have to agree with almost every point he makes.

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnHawkins/2008/03/14/why_i_am_a_conservative?page=2

The two exceptions.... The * about out of every hundred new ideas 99 or so yadda yadda yadda

I agree with the spirit of what he says here, but it is an old, overused quote, that may be a little overzealous

The other exception, is the point about abortion.  If I was choosing sides, I would definately consider myself pro-life. However the issue is not as cut and dry as he makes it out o be.  Regardless of which side of the issue you are on, there is a lot of greay area, and there are a lot ostances to be taken that lie somewhere between

"Life begins at inception....." and "Abortion should be available to any woman under any circumstance"

And I think all the stances, at both extremes, and everywhere in the middle hold some merit.

Just to be clear however, I do absolutely lose it when some neo-hippie b*tch who has had a half dozen abortion looks at me cross-eyed because I have the gull to set a moustrap, or admit that I am in favor of further commercial and residential development in a given area, for economic benefit, regardless of how it effects the habitat of the new zealend blue loried monarch butterfly.