I'm not as anti-electoral as I once was - in fact, I worked for a leftist third party until recently - but what people do in a voting booth every two or four years is the least of my concerns when it comes to evaluating their political potential. I'm thinking of an old friend of mine, a rural Virginian and honest-to-God paleoconservative, who voted for George Bush and George Allen because of abortion and gay marriage.
<br><br>He's also a steward in his union, the Virginia Education Association, and from what I hear, a damned good one. I'll take another one of him over a dozen Democratic voters who sit in hipster coffeehouses and mutter epithets about the white working class and their church-going, pickup-driving ways. (Not that most, or even many, Democratic voters are like that, but in Brooklyn, I meet more than my share.)
<br><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/29/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">John Costello</b> <<a href="mailto:joxn.costello@gmail.com">joxn.costello@gmail.com</a>> wrote:
<br><br></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I have to say that in my experience, libertarians are "on our side"
<br>until they have to vote. And then they vote Republican, because<br>anti-facist, anti-militarist, anti-interventionist, and pro-choice<br>sentiments always, always lose to the promise of lower taxes and less<br>government.
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