play wright and author in new york and chris mooney, author of the new book, "the republican brain." great to have you here, chris. on wednesday, the romney campaign's foreign spokesman resigned after an uproar over his sexual orientation. he is openly gay and despite his open affiliation, has been a vocal advocate for marriage equality. after he was hired, brian fischer wrote this about romney on twitter. if personnel is policy, his message to the profamily community, drop dead. after that, he was asked to lay low during a foreign policy conference call that he, himself organized. that preacheded him to quit. >> he did decide for his own reasons that his effectiveness was going to be compromised. >> is this having to do with the fact that some social conserve tives appeared to be publicly going after him? >> well, i don't want to speak for rick, but i will say of course there were voices of intolerance that expressed themselves during this debate. that was unfortunate. >> his job, just because he was gay, would have been the most extreme thing to happen if it weren't for the amendmen

chris mooney, who as i mentioned before is the author of the republican brain.is jonathan height and author of the righteous mind, why good people are divided. i think this is, in some ways, the most important single issue to figure out and discuss. i used to think that people's concerns about polarization were this bourgeois establishment and the vanguard of righteousness. i've now realized to get change on the scale, you just can't get it under the current conditionings of polar sufferings. you just can't get it. so the question is you have to solve that problem first, before you soufflve the bigger problem. it's a really good read. what is the nature of the conservative brain that makes it december tinct. >> there's a tun of research showing that the average liberal is much more open to new specious experiences and trying out new things. that means tolerating ambiguity and it makes them psychologically connected. and that's because there's a personalitity dispotion that produces in people a way of approaching the world that is prior to their politics, but the