Those first three paragraphs should be in quotes, they are not mine.

Here's a hint, Chloe

"Whether secular, urban liberals, sheltered as they are, realize it or not, there are a hell of a lot of moderate and liberal people of faith (Christians and others) who vote Democrat every fall, and we hardly appreciate it when you paint us with the same brush that you use on hacks like Donohue."

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.

So cminimus, your response wasn't sufficient unless it had your insult to Chloe: she's a zell miller democrat, a dino. Good job! Now you don't have to listen to anything she might have to say.

Yes, yes, I am certain you are a pandagon commenter. You have the behavior down pat.

The reason AM had to quit is not because of "the right wings" reaction to her hatred but because of her hatred. I understand "the left wing" feels that hypocritical intolerant and hater are terms that describe the right wing pundits only but these terms sum up AM perfectly.

Whether it be priest, accused rapist or race car driver, Amanda does not discriminate in her hatred of men. Her and her left-wing feminist peers, predictably, did not learn one single thing. They focused on the right and catholic reaction and tried desperately to make it about some plot or an example of how women are not allowed to play with the big boys. Oh what a predictable spin. Hating men, Catholics or white men is still hatred, the left just tolerates it and the feminists like AM just maintain and perpetuate this double standard so we have, until recently, come to accept it. Michael Richards, Mel Gibson, Amanda Marrcotte all are the same animal, the only difference is Amanda don’t have to say sorry to save her career.

Look at what you guys did to Tim Hardaway in a day.

Behold what we can (and will) do to you.

I think it was a mistake to quit. Personal viewpoints unrelated to the campaign of a presidential candidate should not be allowed to be censured by rabble ousers. Rabble rousers need to be exposed for their ambition to incite shock and terror. The violence of verbal attacks is almost as deadly to the spirit as physical violence perpetrated by insurgents in Iraq is to the body of their targets. Historically, this episode is similiar to what the Nazis did to Jews before commencing the Halocaust. It is about as unAmerican as you can get.

"Why is it okay to penallize someone for exercising their right to free speech"

For a group that professes to champion free speech, you certainly don't seem to understand a damn thing about it.

Of COURSE she has the right to express herself. What you are implying is that there should NEVER be any consequences. What you are implying is that NO ONE should ever be held responsible for what they say. So, if a Republican candidate hired a white supremacist, you'd be fine with that, right? Somehow, I doubt it.

She can say whatever she wants, but she's also RESPONSIBLE for it. I know you leftists abhor the idea of responsibility, but us grown-ups in the real world think it's a good idea.

Thank you for your article. After having read accounts of this debacle in the NY Times, Wash. Post, and Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, all I knew was that you and your colleague had allegedly posted anti-Catholic items on your blog. Remarkably, none of those respected media outlets actually stated what you actually posted. So, the controversy was about the controversy, instead of allowing the general public to actually decide for themselves what really happened and why. That is why I decided a long time ago, that I can be a more effective change agent without working inside party politics. Party politics are way too constrained for open minded thinkers such as yourself. Keep up your work from the outside, and you will likely accomplish more change than you ever would have working for the Edwards, or any other campaign.

"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.