Jeff  Carter  Friday morning on CNBC, Joe Kernan was teasing
Jack Welch about living in NYC. Joe said, “Most of your friends
are liberal.”. I empathize with that.   I actually find that
there are very few true blue Democrats in Chicago. It’s just
that the machine is established in the Democratic Party and
inertia pushes them that way. So many people make so much money
off the machine, you just can’t change it. But, there are enough
hard core true believing Democrats around to keep the ship
sailing straight.  When people find out that I am a
conservative, there are three reactions. One, they can’t believe
it and think I am kidding them, but then talk to me and we
become friends. The second is abject horror, they sort of
tolerate me but behind my back they insult me. The third is they
start pigeon holing me into the most radical of conservative
classes.  There are many people in Chicago that I know that will
not invite me to parties because I am a conservative. It makes
them uncomfortable. Welch said on CNBC th