My wife Carol Brown, recently wrote a blog entry for American Thinker asking for advice on how to handle politics in a politically mixed marriage. As the other half, I would like to offer my observations of our journey towards "marital bipartisanship," as one reader so wittily put it. For the sake of context, I will first say a little about my own political journey.I began as a Goldwater conservative with distinctly John Birch Society leanings. I still see great merit in the sentiment behind "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice ..." My faith was baptized in the Spirit evangelical at a time when born again was a term foreign to most main stream Christian churches. It should be noted that back then my political fellow travelers or co-religionists would have never dared to mix politics and religion in the way the right does today. To this day, my deepest value is a Midwestern, suck-it-up-and-go individualism that my wife finds hard to deal with.My initial...(Read Full Post)