Reply #52: Another thing that freaks me out...

[PurpleChez]

and I see a lot of it here in the south, although I'm sure it exists all over, is "wild and crazy conservatives--guys who are totally stuck in some absurd rebel bad-ass fantasy, covered in tattoos, hair down to their ass, plastic testicles hanging from their truck's trailer hitch, stars-and-bars stickers all over the place---and yet, they unerringly support right-wing fundamentalist candidates who would impose some faux-1950s conformity over the rest of us. "My grandpappy was a rebel and I'm a rebel too and ain't nobody tells me what to do"--but they sure as hell won't hesitate to try to tell everybody else to sit down, shut up, and do whatever Dick Cheney tells you to.