If I take the quote as a whole it seems like your last paragraph is saying that only liberals are "trying to do the right thing and be good people". Is that what you are saying?
No, sorry, I wasn't clear. My post was supposed to mean: (first paragraph): try these liberal places, (second paragraph) but of course there are all kinds of people anywhere, (third paragraph) any place where people are trying to do something good for someone else (whatever that is, and whether it's liberal or not) would work.
I don't feel like arguing politics, and this isn't right place to do it anyway, and I think your posts have been very loving and open and everything I would call moral and good.
But... this is the nervous-making part.... part of me feels disingenuous agreeing that conservative republicanism, as it is practiced right now in this country, is as focused on (what I feel to be) the right thing as are other political positions. I think for us to be super-cool then I would have to agree that it is, and I'm going to practice some of my new-found assertiveness and say I don't agree that it is, but that I believe in your right to believe so.
I hope that's ok with you

I can't really do any better than that. I get the impression you want me to go a little further, but suffice to say I'm as entrenched in my position as you are in yours!
And I utterly and completely agree that people on the left can be supremely annoying. One time at a party I met a guy who gave everyone within earshot a big lecture on how it was evil to own a car-- everyone has to walk or ride their bike. Ok, so within earshot were a blind person, a person in a wheel chair, and a pregnant lady. I looked around, pointedly at all of these people, and said "everyone?" and he then launched into another tirade. No pause to even notice who was around.
On this thread, early on, I was bemoaning the lack of tolerance of a friend of mine who wants me to believe in new-age spirituality and other related beliefs (that I think of as "liberal") and I just don't. She isn't any more tolerant than anyone in a conservative church, that's for sure, and maybe a lot less.