Steve Colbert once said that Fox News gives you "both sides of the story, the President's and the Vice President's." Pretty much everywhere I've lived, the two "acceptable" sides to any story aren't very far apart. Rudy Giulianni is a conservative New Yorker, but he's to the left of most home-grown liberal Southerners I know.

So when I make comments about Democrats, I want to make it clear that some of my best friends are Democrats (hee hee). Of course, they are Democrats like Zell Miller or Orson Scott Card (no, Zell Miller and Orson Scott Card are not my best friends; stay with me here), because that's the kind of Democrat you find in the South. Aside from imported Democrats (although I am an import myself).