Garrison Keillor asks, "Does being an old crank make me a Republican?"

http://www.kansascity.com/273/story/1200053.html

No, Keillor, it just makes you a curmudgeony old crank liberal from Minnesota, out of touch with the overwelming majority of this country (the NERVE of someone like you having the audacity to call the repubs a "statistical subgroup."). Republicans hold a monopoly on crankiness? Your far left ilk, just like the far right, lives that characteristic 24-7, with a whole lotta hate and looniness thrown in just for good measure. The majority is "confused" and you are the "free" one? No confusion here. No mealy-mouthing. No equivocating. No pragmatism. Just a whole lot of belief and anger directed at two out-of-touch, B.S. parties controlled by their extremes. Further, as a crusty old liberal turd, you have about as much "freedom" of mind and ability to think for yourself as a rottweiler who just had a lobotomy -- about as much freedom of mind as that slimeball Cheney whom you target in your column. As I like to say, people like you and Cheney are two peas in the same pod -- doctrinaire, largely non-thinking zombies fueled by bitterness and typically a fair amount of hate. Well, a lot of us who are neither liberal nor conservative have started to develop a fair amount of anger ourselves, not that someone like you would be anything but oblivious to anyone who is not a conservative or liberal (you just dismiss us as "moderates," whatever the hell that term really means). Yeah, we're out here and we're going to do our best to make CRANKY old leftist farts like you pay a bit of notice. And we're not going away.