I received an email from a person who said  he noticed two candidates who expoused no liberal viewpoints, and were therefore "probably worth watching". By this he meant that they might possibly be good candidates, precisely because they showed no signs of liberalism.

I used to be the same way, only in reverse. If someone demonstrated an ounce of conservatism, forget 'em. I went the whole nine yards. I called conservatives bad names, and so forth, and so on.

But then I got tired of it. I got tired of myself for being that way. And thus, the whole purpose of this blog is to celebrate my newly open minded attitude towards conservatism, and my new desire to view it as something other than stupid or evil.

We all create our ideologies, and then spend much more time expousing them than questioning them, or augmenting them by changing, or being willing to change them, after giving full consideration to contrary opinions. 

When we openmindedly give credit  (for being valid and understandable) to opinions with which we disagree,  we expand and enhance ourselves.

Surely this is preferrable to resolutely standing our ground, discounting all with whom we disagree, and never augmenting, and thus enhancing ourselves.