Former Romney Foreign Policy Adviser Speaks Out: The Left 'Says You Can’t Be Gay And A Conservative' “Well … I find it ironic that the Left, who wants to be out front on ‘everyone should be tolerant’ messaging, is the one group that says you can’t be gay and a conservative. So, there are people on the far Right that don’t like the fact I’m gay and people on the far Left who don’t like the fact I’m conservative. I’m comfortably in the middle, I know who I am, and I think a lot of Americans are just like me in that they have a lot of multiple views, and they go into the voting booth and they vote according to multiple, multi-dimensional views.”Related: Fox News Insider