There are comments above that indicate that people think the conservatives at Mudcat are wrongly denying their conservatism. I think it's true - there are very few extreme conservatives at Mudcat. They all seem far more reasonable than many of the people who write letters to my local newspaper.
Current themes in my newspaper:

• homeless people are bad, so we shouldn't coddle them by giving them a homeless shelter
  
• guns are good, and people who speak against guns are bad
  
• the police are infallible, except when they give me speeding tickets
  
• immigrants are destroying the economy of the United States and are committing huge numbers of horrible crimes
  
• Obama was born in Kenya and is a Muslim and is therefore horrible
  
• and the beat goes on...