Instapundit responds to our response to his MSNBC column with advice for the Democrats in which he suggested Democrats could gain younger voters by lowering the legal drinking age. We agreed, and suggested another means of garnering votes would be for the Democrats to move to restore voting rights to felons in states that have disenfranchised them. He picks up where we left off:

I have an elaboration on that: don't have so many felonies. The justification for depriving felons of civil rights, like voting or owning guns, was originally that felonies were such serious crimes that the felon's life was ordinarily forfeit anyway. But now felonies are designated very promiscuously -- downloading files from the Internet? Filling in a pothole in your driveway that turns out to be a "wetland?"

Those things shouldn't be felonies. To my mind, imposing civil rights deprivations for such minor, mala prohibita matters is a due process violation. Adopt that approach, and you don't have to worry about felons being deprived of voting rights unless they're murderers, robbers, rapists, etc. You know: real criminals.

We agree with Glenn completely about reducing the number of felonies. It's a great idea and one that would solve a lot of problems in the justice system. But, we still think, whatever the crime, if they've done the time, they should get their right to vote back. And a very large portion of them would vote Democratic.