Can a Republican be a ....

[Rittermeister]

8. They don't think about it like that

LB,

Most in-the-trenches common Republicans I know really think they're doing the right and moral thing. They think reducing taxes, regulations, etc is going to help the country as a whole. They think that private charity is more effective/moral than public aid. And they're absolutely frightened to death of basically anything foreign. Until you've grown up in the kind of political vacuum that is the rural American south or midwest (I grew up in a town of 4500 people with a dozen churches), you wouldn't believe how inculcated with the ideology most of them are by the time they reach voting age.