I have conservative relatives. I maintain some relationships with some conservatives going back to the 1990s... Not in any meaningful way.

Be honest, brutally honest. That is what's going to maintain relationships.

George Bush is a conservative and most conservatives like him and support him. But most conservatives, at one level or another, are troubled by much of what they see going on in our government.

I've been interested in watching the level of conservative misinformation that circulates through the media.

There's every financial incentive in the world to stay in the conservative movement forever.

Judging Natalie as my mother had judged me was, I felt like telling her son, just my ass-backward way of showing love. I'd spent my life trying to translate that language, and now I realized I had come to speak it fluently. When was it that you realized the thread woven through your DNA carried the relationship deformities of your blood relatives as much as it did their diabetes and bone density?