Feel like a few (more) letters, in response to this morning’s posts?

I, too, am often told that Republicans are greedy, stick-it-to-the-common-folk SOBs. I work in a non-profit agency that provides residential and day services to individuals with developmental disabilities. When people learn what I do for a living, they jump to the conclusion that I am a Democrat. When I tell them I’m a Republican — a Reagan conservative — it is very amusing to watch the color bleed from their faces as they ask, “How can that be?” I often reply that we’re not always engaged in killing puppies: Some of us have day jobs.

Another one:

I am a caterer and I did an event for a major media outlet’s news-operations division — cameramen and the like. These are the guys and gals who make the pictures appear on your TV. And they were some of the nicest and hardest-working people I’ve ever met. Of course, politics came up a little (I keep my views to myself while working), and many of them felt the need to emphasize that they didn’t agree with the talking heads they work for. Support for McCain-Palin predominated.
This was in New York City. Please withhold my name.

Another:

So, my husband is black, I am biracial (white/Korean). Here is my three (homeschooled) children’s experience of life: All their black and Korean relatives are voting for McCain (security, taxes, marriage, and abortion). All their white relatives are voting Obama (well-meaning, misguided liberals). At least half the Republican families they know are black homeschoolers.

Well, that’s something you don’t hear on NPR (for example) every day!

Finally, this, from a man who identifies himself as an Andrew Sullivan reader. He explains the GOP for us:

Hi from Ann Arbor, Jay. I just read your latest — and I think the proper phrase is “party which represents the interests of the greedy and selfish,” some of whom are rich.
I actually see the Republican party as two parties: (a) the party working to protect the interests of the greedy and selfish, and (b) the party of the Christianists. The first is greedy and selfish about money, and the second is greedy and selfish about imposing their culture and religious beliefs. (Oh, yeah, the libertarians are in there somewhere, too.)

Well, I’m glad to be set straight! And there’s a place for this fellow in the political-science department of virtually any university in the land!