I know what it was..... I still found it insulting.
You implied that you know his mind and what he thinks of conservatives.
Your perception couldn't be farther from the truth.....I know this because he is my friend, and I'm fairly conservative.
Awww.... thanks Sunny!!! I love my North Carolina daisy!!! XOXOXOX
I am VERY laid back. I've had to learn to be because I've grew up around mouthy asshats that think when they do something like say it's a logical comparison that gays "burden" society with all their HIV gettin' and spreadin' the same way smokers do with their choices, so they should be taxed too if cigarettes are... well, it's all OK!! And if someone takes offense, oh well that's their problem. Apologize if your words offended members of their family or them personally? Hell no!! This is 'Murica and you can say what you want!!! Just keep in mind, that the First Amendment allows one to say things, but doesn't guarantee protection from blowback in various forms. An idea lost in the Internet tough guy age that allows people to say things to others without having to look them in the eye and take the consequences that used to be associated with such behavior.
But call this same kind of person, who might for instance use an avatar to advertise their pseudo-phallus, a gun nut and watch the feathers fly for your "insult". Then suddenly the rules of decorum mustr be followed!!
So Yeah my dear Sunny, I am laid back. I had to be for along time until I got big enough to shut others up when they spouted of hate filled bigotry at me. Now the Internet has brought back my former patience and acceptance that you just can't fix stupid.
You are a conservative, sure, but an intelligent one who doesn't spout off memes, the latest marching orders from the LimBeckFoxBlaze think tank, recite old debunked talking points and reject logic when you're shown a different perspective that may have negated one you held. Like me, you have a conservative streak (your might be a bit larger) that gives you pause on some things, but you are willing and know you have to change. That really is what being progressive is about. Recognizing there is no stasis to reality and that no matter how much you try to control it, things will change and evolve.
Once you take the fact that acceptance must be the way society works, to an extreme and demand an equally rigid and absolutist approach, you are doing the same thing the right does now. Extremists have taken over that party and it's sad because it means that government will be broken until we are rid of them. The same goes for the extreme left. Neither of these groups are doing our nation any good. The only difference right now is that extremists have yet to take over the D party. But the continued swing to the far right of the GOP will cause more of the extreme left voices to get airtime to counter it. As such, the real fix is simple: rid ourselves of the Tea Party and neoconservatism in all aspects of government. Socially it is dying as information becomes more available for all to see. Time can heal some of this wound, but those of us in the middle have to keep cancelling out these nut job voices of absolute dogmatic ideology.