Shortly after I started this blog, I was going over google listings to see how it was faring, and I came across this article by one Frank Schaeffer: The Republican base is now made up of religious and neoconservative ideologues, and the uneducated white underclass with a token person of color or two up front on TV to obscure the all-white, all reactionary all backward -- there-is-no-global-warming -- rube reality. Actual conservatives, let alone the educated classes, have long since fled. While I somewhat agree on what he says about the Republican base, I don't consider myself part of that base - ...