[SouthernBoyupNorth]

Welll GooooooLLLLyyyyy. The tone of this article is insulting at best. It seems that I as a conservative must love country music, (I don’t personally I am a die hard Rocker). I must LOVE college football. (I don’t even pay attention to it and never did). I must also not be capable of keeping an open mind about people because they happen to have the misfortune of being from New York or Massachusetts, (therefore I am a bigot.... not). And I must like Fred Thompson because he is from the south.

Rest assured that I will place MY VOTE for the candidate that can convince me he can pull this country back from the brink of extinction where we currently hover thanks to the current administration and the Immigration reform bill. I wont care if its Thompson, Romney or Guliani. It WONT be McCain... I don’t vote for traitorous bastards.

[perfect_rovian_storm]

Sheeh, lighten up!

One paragraph of the article about the 4th of July does not make it the ‘tone of the article’. I can’t stand football and I’d rather swallow razor blades than listen to most country music.

I’m from New York and I won’t vote for a New York or Massachusetts politician either. Because I’m bigoted against my own home state? No, because you have to be a slimy RINO to get elected here as a Republican.

Governing as a liberal and then pretending to be a conservative is not acceptable presidential material as far as I’m concerned.

[mmichaels1970]

Now I'm a "Rocker" from Cleveland, and I thought the article was great. I read your comments about the tone and went back and reread the article and still couldn't find reason to be offended.

So the dude added some Southern fried imagery to his article. I have no problem with that. Why is everyone so quick to be offended nowadays. It's a shame to see the demand for PC continuing to rise.

[CDHart]

Somebody sure pushed your buttons - I didn't get that tone from the article at all. I'm not into sports, and don't like country music, either (although I do love the song Rocky Top). And no Republican from the northeast is conservative, not one. If he/she was, they wouldn't get elected. I think the article was describing old-fashioned patriotism, i.e., Mom, apple pie, football, the flag, etc.

Carolyn

[colorcountry]

It seems that I as a conservative must love country music, (I don’t personally I am a die hard Rocker). I must LOVE college football. (I don’t even pay attention to it and never did).

Did you forget Nascar?

Any truooo blooded conservative must love Nascar. At least that's what the Zogby poll seems to thing. Every time I answer one of those stoopid polls they ask me if I'm a Nascar fan!

[xcamel]

There are just as many of us "Ted Nugent" conservatives as any others, the difference being we don't act all offended when we're smart enough to understand that a positive piece may not be written from our point of view, nor directed at our venue.

[gcruse]

I must also not be capable of keeping an open mind about people because they happen to have the misfortune of being from New York or Massachusetts, (therefore I am a bigot.... not).

On your own profile page you say....

" Experiences so far in this wretched state [New Jersey] are that folks around here are generally rude and ill manered."

If you don't like northeasterners, why should we?