Moral Conservative

What on earth could that ever mean? And, then, what would it be to be "morally liberal?" I mean, I know the answer. Morally conservative = upright and moral. Morally liberal = libertine and permissive. But morality is a lot more complicated than going to church every Sunday and hating gays. It's an actual part of life, a part of one's mind.

One of the larger blind spots our culture has is that we collectively make an uninterrupted straight line between being moral, being religious, and voting Republican.

Why on earth should we do that? Religious people are just as likely to beat their wives, steal, lie as anyone else, ditto Republicans. And Republicans- these people in Congress are far more corrupt than the supposedly corrupt Democrats they took over from in '94- all in eleven years! If Tom Delay escapes jail it will be because of abusing his power to escape culpability.

What moral conservative means, mostly, is self-righteous conservative blowhard. Don't use it, then.