I'm writing this letter because I am concerned about the direction you've taken yourself and RedState in the most recent few weeks. I would have written this on RedState, but I've been banned.
I know I'm not a friend. I do, however, think that your goal (your primary one), though I have some disagreement, is just ones given your worldview.
However, your tone has gotten out of hand. It does so at no bother or cost to liberals or the Kos community itself. However, it is not constructive to the RedState community (either the Hawk wing or the social conservative wing), to political discourse in general, and to yourself personally.
I know being passionately pro-life is a tough thing to be in America. There are two major parties here, one who takes you for granted and the other who, even with a pro-life Senate leader, is openly hostile. As it is for liberals (true liberals forever, and even moderates today), politics must be very frustrating for you.
However, it is clear that your pro-life stance is rooted in a deep Christian belief. And your actions as of late have fallen a long way from that.
In the past few days alone, you argued that Markos Zunigia (who, granted, is very partisan and has no patience himself for the "other" party) was openly rooting against America just for personal satisfaction based on a quote that required ellipses to take completely out of context. You've told the left to "get a life" for being passionately concerned about the 4th amendment (indeed, at several points in your posts disclaiming the idea that liberals even believe/care about the underlying issues). You've completely disrespected posters who imply that Arlen Spector isn't a liberal (he's not a social conservative, agreed, but the guy's point was fair). Those who disagree with you about any other political issue, particularly abortion, are not just wrong but "in an alternate dimension where the normal rules of physics do not apply." Going back, your attacks on Congresmen Murtha and Cindy Sheehan became vile and personal, rather than simply (very important) substantive differences. Liberals (as a group, which to you have come to mean anyone you disagree with), are "silly", pathalogical, liars. Your posts have an air of moral and intellectual arrogance that leads you to belittle and patronize the posters who ironically are "high-class" enough not to be banned.
The problem is that activists generally all get in it out of self-sacrifice. And bad people generally don't make sacrifices. The people you are disagreeing with have passionate beliefs that come, though with a different perspective, out of love for their fellow man and a desire for society to do better. But you've come to hate the "sinner" as well as the "sin", and you do so at a great disservice to Redstate as well as yourself.
Redstate, if you haven't noticed, is becoming a parody of the worst excesses of DailyKos (yes, there are excesses here). Diaries about how Democrats and their activists are "Communists", "ugly", "hate America" "openly rooting for the Other Side", and worse not only exist but are promoted to the front page. Liberalism is not just a disagreement over ideas but a disease, one that has inflicted more than half of the country, apparently (though Republicans are the majority party right now, the difference is more than made up by the fact that much of the support of Democrats come from nonvoters). Despite having absolutely no political power, democrats have become a boogeyman on RedState, responsible for every ill from Roe remaining on a bench with 7 Republicans to the war they never wanted and had no part in planning going poorly to pork in a budget they had no hand in writing. While this worldview is good for Democrats (because failure to self-reform will lead to the same results that Democratic excesses led to in the late 1970s and early 1990s), it's bad for democracy (ditto).
I write to you because you are a Christian, and (having much respect for religious people on a personal level), I feel like It would be easier to bring this up to your attention rather than Kilmer's or some of the others who have, admittedly, being worse. That is mainly self-serving, and for that I apologize. I hope you do take away from this, though, that part of the people your posts rabidly insult are good people. I'm a government lawyer who takes great pride in doing my small part to make this country work effectively (my position is not particularly policy or political oriented). I believe in God (though am not particularly religious), and although I think the Republican leadership is horribly wrong as a matter of policy, I think they for the most part are trying to do what they think is right (granted, I think some of its leaders have been tainted by lust for power, and that many of the young brigade that drive the GOP machine lack the patience and the forsight to avoid excesses that seem to inflict pain solely for partisan gain and hate). I hope you can be a moderating voice in that - and by moderating, I do not mean more centrist, but more kind, respectful, and conservative in ones convictions - Jesus taught to be humble, and to not always assume the correctness of one's views.
Jesus also taught that there were more important things than the politics of a material world. I'd hate to see your passion and your despair at what you see as a tragic loss of life turn you into someone who no longer enjoys the simple pleasure of God's love. As a lawyer myself, I know that law school can be a dehumanizing and isolating experience (particularly for conservatives at the highest level schools, where they are a minority amongst the student body and the professors). It's tough not to let that get to you, even for the nonpolitical and nonambitious. There is a bright light at the tunnel. Remember, though, that every single person at your law school could get a job making more money with less debt at an investment bank. Many among them made a sacrifice, if a small one, in attempting to enter a more meaningful and fulfilling career (and whoops, that was a mistake!)
I hope you don't take this post as an attack, but as the constructive criticism it is meant to be. Also, from my own experience, you should try to clerk when you get out of law school. As someone who has clerked in the past, I highly reccomend. First of all, given the amount of conservatives on the bench compared to those at the top law schools, it's relatively easy to find a job as a conservative. Second of all, it's a great way to immediately give back to your country. Third, a good clerkship will teach you how to think about the law not only according to your own worldview, but according to the worldview of others, and to self-reflect. Finally, its a great resume filler and it gets you out of the grueling first year associate position.
Regards.