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• Friday, February 16, 2007 09:12 AM

  Oh brother

  "If you want to keep up the pretense that at some point in your life you would ever consider voting for a Democrat other than -- maybe -- Zell Miller, you need to brush up on the language employed by moderates and liberals. Moderates and liberals vote Democrat ic; "Democrat" as anything other than a singular noun is a conservative affectation.

  Now, as it happens, I am a liberal "person of faith" and a semi-regular Pandagon commenter."

  Thanks for deciding you know who I vote for. For the record, I live (and vote) in Montana, and have only been old enough to vote in the past two national elections. I voted for Kerry in 04, for Democrat Jon Tester in 06. You know, the guy who tipped the whole Senate thing. I voted for Brian Schweitzer, our current Democratic governor, in 04. Actually, the only Republican I have ever voted for was some woman running for the clerk of court in my county, and that's because she was running against no one. Why the hell a clerk of court even needs a party affiliation is beyond me, anyway.

  I voted for "activist liberal" judges for the Montana Supreme Court, and happily, since I know most of them. I personally know a handful of Democratic state representatives in Montana, mostly through my mother, who is a politically active trial lawyer. I've campaigned for several local Democratic politicians, as well as the environmental group, "Save the Blackfoot."

  Now that I am going to school in Minnesota, I regularly lend whatever support I can to the DFL Party here.

  Your very disbelief that someone who ardently defends Christians must therefore be a raging conservative hack says a lot about what's wrong with liberal thought these days. Liberals pretend to be oh-so-open-minded, they pretend to represent the people who don't get a voice in the neofascist Republican party. What a flaming sack of lies. Far-left liberals are as morally and intellectually bankrupt as their far-right friends. If nothing else, Salon has taught me that.

  One of the reasons I, as a Christian, have always voted Democratic is because I naively assumed that liberals are morally superior to conservatives. Now, the only reason I vote for them is because they are truly the lesser of two great evils.

  —Chloe
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