A new user called JTurnas responded:

Now for some advice to you Draginol. Anyone running a business shouldn't post public political opinions. Its only going to cost you big in sales. Those liberals have credit cards, just like the moderates, its only logical they will take their money elsewhere. You don't see political signs on a McDonalds, or a CompUSA, or a any other business do you? You don't see Bill Gates out on blog sites telling people that liberals are morons, do you? The average consumer can't tell you the political leanings of most all companies, and their CEOs. Theres a reason for this, and the reason is, its bad business. Think about that next time you post patronizing and insulting blogs about people you disagree with politcally. Remember, this is coming from a Moderate Conservative, before you even think about labeling me a bleeding heart liberal. You'd figure someone that proclaims themself to be "All Knowing" would have figured this out by now.

A pretty ballsy comment coming from someone who was obviously new to the site (and arrogant enough to "give advice" despite not having looked around the site very long).

Ignoring the fact that I've been writing politically-oriented articles here for the past 3 years. Ignoring that our company's revenue has steadily increased for those same past years. Ignoring that actually many CEOs are quite outspoken on their politics. Ignoring that the company I work for has people of all kinds of different political views. Ignoring that our company doesn't contribute to any political parties or groups. Ignoring that me having a blog is not analogous to having a political sign on the front of our building or company's website, let's assume his argument is true.

Let's assume that some number of people greater than 0 read my articles, find out where I work and decide not to purchase products or services from our company because of those opinions. 

The first problem I have with that attitude is that it assumes that because I've chosen to start my own business to create products and services and employ people that I somehow must limit my extra-work activities because it may hurt said company.
This assumes that "the company" is the be all end all reason for that person to exist. It assumes that CEOs have no life outside their work and all must be secondary to the needs of "the company".

The second problem is that it assumes that there are a lot of people who make purchasing decisions based on the political ideologies of CEOs. This is something quite different from celebrities who seem quite willing to shove their whacked out views on people. It's different because celebrities get media coverage for their ideologies because they're celebrities. The celebrity IS the product/service. By contrast, people read what I write mostly because of the content of what I write.

Most people reading this have no idea what my day job is. Nor do they care.  Lots of people do know where I work but most of them don't care either.

That I'm pro-choice on the abortion issue doesn't affect the quality of the artificial intelligence in our games. That I favor US foreign policy in Iraq doesn't affect the quality of visual styles I work on. That I favor personal accounts for Social Security doesn't impact the quality of our desktop enhancement software. In other words, my political opinions are totally disconnected with what I do. Moreover, anyone playing the one game that my political views might affect, The Political Machine, can tell you the game didn't favor either candidate.

It's not a freedom of speech thing. I'm not going to complain that my rights are being infringed simply because someone thinks I shouldn't write political blogs because someone will choose not to buy products or services from my employer. But it's a damn presumptuous assertion though.

So let me be clear: Anyone who makes purchasing decisions based on the political beliefs of an executive or founder of a company when the product or service is totally unrelated to those political beliefs is a moron. Only a moron would choose not to buy the best quality/priced car because their CEO maintains a blog where he write liberal or conservative essays. And frankly, I don't want a moron as a customer anyway.

Moreover, my job is a means to an end. It is not the ends unto itself. I work so that I can provide for my family. So even if my blogs caused a measurable amount of lost business, I wouldn't stop writing because I write for myself. I enjoy writing and I'll be damned if I'd stop writing about what I want to simply because it affects the bottom line at my job. I write on my own time. And as the principle stock holder at said job, I'm going to do what I want to do in my free time. Period.

I'd rather make less money and do what I want to do in my spare time than be a slave of the corporation.