What's wrong with principled dissent?

I'm glad my letters provide entertainment for people with superior intelligence, including John Moore.

But I wish my critics could keep reality straight for the sake of rational argument.

First, I'm not a Republican. I used to be a Democrat until the party began catering to the whack jobs on the radical left in the 1970s. I vote for whomever most embraces traditional and constitutional American principles.

Second, the principled dissent I speak of comes directly from conservatives, independents, libertarians and a good number of Democrats who have not yet swilled the Obama Kool-Aid. The dissent is not some vast right-wing conspiracy as some suggest. It's also worth noting that actual police reports and local news accounts paint a reality where over 70 percent of the actual violence at the various town hall meetings was committed by pro-Obama Democrats, from the biting off a finger by an enraged Obamabot in California to the beating of and racial epithets hurled at Kenneth Gladney by union thugs in Missouri.

Third, isn't Moore's reference to the GOP about "having no input and being left out of the process" (his only correct observation) more of an indictment of Democrat congressional leadership than it is a contradiction on my part? After all, the Democrats assured voters they would "not be like Republicans" and would cultivate bipartisanship in governing this country regarding a wide spectrum of citizens involving themselves in the political process. Is it really a contradiction or is it reality on both counts?

HENRY SEITER Jr.

Urbana