ROGER SIMON'S "FEAR OF REPUBLICANS"

I know some of you want to be Republican, but fear being labelled as "non-progressive," "uncle tom," "fool for the elite," uncool,"... Just cross the line and join the smarter, bolder, and cooler party:

Most of my life I rarely talked to Republicans -- not seriously anyway. If I did it was without the full knowledge that they were Republicans. I didn't think they would have much to say that would interest me, that they were intellectually bankrupt and probably greedy, possibly even racists. I was that prejudiced. Of course, secretly I read Milton Friedman, realizing that the educated man should be aware of his economic theories. I did admire William F. Buckley's prose. And P. J. O'Rourke did make me laugh - although I didn't want to admit it. But these were the exceptions. (full post)