I know they are, and they were elected with the support of a conervative base. Would Clinton still have won the liberal base if he had been anti-abortion....We both no that had he taken an anti-abortion stance he wouldn't have had a snowball's chance in hell. He never would have carried the ticket in the primary. And as for your bastion of tolerance, how tolerant are college campuses of conservative thought? Can Minutemen organizations hold rallies without being shouted down as racists or bigots by the left? What about military recruiters being chased out of college campuses in San Fransicso by angry open minded liberal mobs? The idea of open minded liberalism is a joke.