Conservative? Bako? Noooo!!!

The front page of The Bakersfield Californian today proudly proclaims, “Bakersfield leads call of the right.” According to a study recently released Bakersfield is the 8th most conservative city in the United States. The article says that we, “earned the top conservative spot in California, out flanking Orange…” Yeah, we earned it all right. Just like how we earned the top spot for having the worst air in the valley. Let’s see, what else is there? Biggest witch hunt. Sleaziest public officials. Least educated. Yeah, Bakersfield has a lot to proud of.

Interestingly enough on the Californian’s blog where they asked people to respond to the question “are we proud of being conservative” there seemed to be more liberals commenting than conservatives. Of course there was still plenty of the obligatory Bible quoting and comments like, “If you hate Bakersfield so much, maybe you should move to a Communist county.” (Brilliant.) There were 97 comments in all, so obviously a lot of people have an opinion on whether being labeled “most conservative” is a compliment or not.

My mom is disappointed and I’m probably going to give my brother a heart attack right now, but as far as I’m concerned the only answer that makes sense is HELL NO!!