Like most people, Ron, Rig is a complex personality with complex viewpoints...and he does not fit some crude political stereotype. While he may disagree with you on some specific issues...he does not fit the general stereotypical mould that you are trying to place him in. It would be convenient for you if he did....cos then he could be as despicably awful as you seem to want him to be! ;-) But he doesn't.

I know Rig well enough to know that he is not suffering from the gross hypocritical conundrums that you ascribe to him. It's wishful thinking on your part.

It's entirely possible for a person to be extremely anti-religious (which Rig is...he's fanatically anti-religious as a matter of fact)...and STILL be in favor of some political view which IS espoused by some religious person....while disagreeing with many other political views that person espouses.

It's not a question of "all or nothing"...and why should it be?

Rig is simply addressing each specific issue that comes up on what he sees as its own merits rather than preaching from some pre-digested all-embracing script.

That's what any free-thinking individual does. He deals with each thing on its own merits. Those who don't think freely simply spout party line from their standard pre-digested script...rather a robot might. If Rig did that, then you'd have a reason to stereotype him as you seem to wish to.

I don't vote for OR against people on the basis of their stated religious beliefs, Ron. I've discovered that there are good and bad people amongst all religious groups...just as there are good and bad people among humanists and atheists. I judge a politician on what they say and do...not on their stated religious credentials or their lack of same.

Because Rig favors the odd specific thing Palin HAS said...it does not indicate in any way that he favors most of what she says or, for heaven's sake, ALL of what she says. My impression is that he fears she would perpetrate the same kind of nonsense on the country that Reagan did if she attained the presidency.

If he's in favor of the odd thing she says...fine. That just shows he can think freely...and outside the box of blind lockstep knee-jerk reaction. It would be extraordinary if Palin had NEVER said anything that a person could agree with...even if that person disagreed with a great deal of what she said.

But, hey....let's ask him! There's a radical notion, eh? (grin) It might save you and I wasting an inordinate amount of our time here arguing about nothing.