Just for full disclosure. My heart beats on the left side and the only party I have ever attended any meetings of was the student organization of the Social Democratic party back home in Sweden. My political views are mainly to the left of those of most Democratic Party voters. My signature on Daily Kos is the old Swedish Worker's Movement motto: Do you duty, demand your rights.
Still, as I have looked through various political blogs I have ended up visiting Andrew Sullivan's on a regular basis. Although I often do not agree with his ideas and suggested solutions to various problems this and other countries face, he is stringent in his thoughts and normally polite in his writing. In many ways he seems like a good, honest conservative thinker, something the Republican Party sorely lacks, which strangely ends up hurting those of us who support more progressive ideas.
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