Oh, I'm even more alien than that. I used to be a Republican!

Ha!

Though just to be clear since I might have gotten a downvote or two for the grandparent... I don't mean to just be trashing Republicans. I think my claim that they are more pre-committed to defecting for the foreseeable future is justified by an objective consideration of the strength and organization of their class of activists and ideologues versus that of the Democrats. I don't think it is mind-killing bias leading me to the conclusion that the Tea-party has had much greater success recently than the netroots or whatever you want to call the equivalent on the Left. I didn't mean anything evaluative beyond that (I have my opinions but those probably are subject to bias).

(For the record I used to be a partisan, Left-wing Democrat. Now I'm vaguely aligned with that party but mostly for cultural and foreign policy reasons. Where I live, your vote doesn't count if you're not a Democrat. Ideologically I'm basically at the liberal-libertarian nexus.)