Fran Eaton over at Illinois Review had steam coming out of her head yesterday after Dan of Move On and Shut Up told her off. …Knee-slapping fun for the whole room.

Essentially, Dan was writing in response to an earlier post by Ms. Eaton indicating that social cons may reconsider support for the Republican Party. Dan said good riddance, in not so many choice words.

The result is that Ms. Eaton is now adamant that her friends — the folks who think the sun revolves around the earth, the people who believe people rode dinosaurs like horses, and the tweedles dee and dum who explain it all away with bullpuckey as if it were a cult — will not be leaving the Republicans, even though their siren is calling for them to abandon the cross-dressing philanderer Rudy Giuliani should he become the nominee. (Just why Giuliani would be the catalyst for such a move is unclear since none of the front-runners seem to have too clear a grasp on reality.) And, even though she hypothesized her and her kooky friends just might do what she’s now saying they won’t.

The kicker? Fran “Claims Barack Obama’s Christian Church is Racist, But Offers No Evidence” Eaton calls Dan an “anti-Christian bigot”… This from the queen of throwing stones at Christians with whom she disagrees; perhaps it takes one to know one.

Does she even realize how twisted and nigh blasphemous she makes herself sound? Clearly not.

Dan’s no bigot, he just knows the difference between reality and partisan-lemming idiocy.

Oh, and another thing. “Values voters” doesn’t mean just anti-gay, anti-Christians-we-don’t-like, and anti-reality voters; though there sure are plenty of them here in America and they are free to espouse those views if they so choose. It also means responsibility, integrity, compassion and honesty — all things emblematic of progressive voters (if not always politicians who claim a “progressive” mantle).

All voters vote their values, it’s just some — say, Republican partisans — hold values that seem to espouse adultery, hypocrisy, greed, and lying your way into war … and those are apparently the sorts of values that a “values voter” like Fran Eaton backs with her punditry.

Me? I support other values by backing other candidates. (No wonder someone like Barack Obama comes in third in an Iowa poll of Republicans.)

UPDATE: Irishwitch has an incredibly salient expose on just why the Dominionist theocracy-seekers should be watched and documented carefully.