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I think you’re right.

America is still conservative. In fact, I’d venture to say about 50% of so-called liberals are conservatives that just don’t realize they are conservative. It takes a guy like Fred or Ronald Reagan to help them realize that.

I know a lot of Democrats, but I have a hard time finding any outside of a college campus who actually buy into the quasi-Marxist "progressive" philosophy of the left. The closest they come to it is on the health care issue, and it normally takes me a good 10 minutes to convince them that they don't actually want government medicine. Almost none will actually defend ideas like cradle-to-grave welfare or other forms of income redistribution.

Most of them want to be left alone by the government, just like we do. They've just been raised to believe that the Democrat Party is the one that wants to keep the government off their backs, while the GOP wants to shove religion and morality down their throats. The GOP, unfortunately, doesn't always do the best job of convincing them otherwise.

So yes, I think you have it right.