and see for me all of the things you described above I love. I love the smell of a barn. Obviously shoveling manure, cleaning out a stall, and doing chores can get old at times especially on a really hot summer day or in the middle of a rain storm but I always end up missing it when i'm not doing it. As for poop I totally have been through it too

I've shoveled it, i've stepped in it, i've even laid in it (not by choice), but it's all good. Oh and FYI i'm a republican and so i'd like to think that i'm smarter than a horse or a hog but I guess that's not up to me
Well just to clarify I said "Typical JPP Republican.". In comparison from what I've seen you post so far you write legibly, you're not full of hate and anger. You don't poop yourself in utter fear at anything you don't understand or are not familiar with. It's probably safe to assume you're a genius compared to most JPP Republicans. Trust me....that isn't exactly setting the bar very high.
Now if you express views that are patently dumb like, "Take your socialist hands off my medicare." or "Evolution is just a theory and not a fact." or "George W. Bush was a great President." then I might have to re-evaluate my views on your cognitive abilities!
Having said that...we do have some Democratic partisans on here, a certain Desh comes to mind, who's grasp on reality is quite fluid, to be polite.
We do have quite a few libertarians on here and like most libertarians they have a few good ideas, a whole bunch of bad ideas, they accomplish exactly nothing and couldn't lead a duck to water. They are however terrific fun to have debates with.
As for me myself, I currently poll with Democrats but I was a card carry Republican from 1979 to 2004. Actually I decided to leave the GOP in 2003 over the immoral and unjustified invasion of Iraq. Having said that, as main street, pro-business, socially liberal Republican from central Ohio I moved to the South for 7 years and quickly discovered that, by the standards of the South, I was a bleeding heart commie pinko liberal and had become appalled at what damage the "Southern Strategy" had done the GOP (and the nation) with it's inherently racist and bigoted Southern populism which had really alienated me from the GOP as well.
But mainly I can best be described, using my father's characterization of me, as being a "Psuedo-Intellectual Horses Ass".
