I am pissed about the actor's stance on obombacare too, but I gotta give the Show props for being an exemplary role model for good fathering and ethics in the country.
If you could go back in time and replace the Andy Griffith show with another stupid sitcom like the brady bunch, I'm pretty sure this country would be post-apocalyptic right now. It was that much of a good example on america.
But as for the actor himself, he has said many times that Sherriff Taylor was just a part, he was nothing like him. Indeed his personal life resembles it very little, he even fought alcoholism most of his career.