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Poor Bob Ehrlich.

He is a Princeton educated former attorney of lower-middle-class German-American background who attended a private high school in Baltimore on a full scholarship. Your undersigned is a Princeton educated current attorney of lower-middle-class German-American background who attended private high school in Baltimore County on a full scholarship. That's where the similarities end, I guess.

Given an opportunity to cut transfer taxes on gay quasi-spouses who transfer property to one another, he vetoed the bill. Ehrlich believes in cutting taxes but his base believes in sticking it to gays more.

Given an opportunity to facilitate medical decisions and hospital visitations of gay quasi spouses, he vetoed the bill. Ehrlich believes in "family values" but, I guess, not for the "wrong" families, i.e. families with gay couples facing heart-rending medical decisions. Perhaps Bob wants to make sure that when gay and lesbians die, they die with a well-placed right-wing Republican cowboy boot up their rears, or at least that's what his latest "wet workers" are telling him to do.

In fairness, libertarians don't have much of a chance to sell out. We are kind of like ugly hermits who take pride in not being whores; the market for libertarian sell-outs is not that great because we have nothing literally to sell out. To the extent, however, that Ehrlich has occasionally leaned libertarian, such as his support for semi-decriminalizing medical marijuana by making its use non-jailable (Md. Ann. Code, CR 5-601(c)(3)), we should be angry at Ehrlich because he knows how to be decent, how to be non-discriminatory and compassionate. He is more culpable for selling out to the right-wing fanatics, not less.

I can see a website now, "http://www.marylandersfornoneoftheabovein2006.com." When I filled out form 504 to the Comptroller last month, I remembered why I don't vote Democrat. Thanks, Bob, for reminding me why I registered Libertarian and why you and I are truly different, demographics aside.

-- Bruce Godfrey