A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative. ↗
I don't think Romney is wacky at all, but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things. Left on his own, Romney would never have said something like the Garden Of Eden was in Missouri, and will be again. ↗
I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little. ↗