Nemo, it's not about ME, it's about pleasing a given audience. Do I deplore Buchanan? You betcha, as Sarah Palin says. Do I set out to provoke and offend a given audience, say a Catholic college, with way gay stuff? No, I do not.
Nemo, you can't believe how rapturously Boy Scout poems are received by Rotary and Kiwanis clubs. I save my big elegies for Sullivan for my friends in Newburyport.