As if that actually mattered to anyone anywhere and had any bearing on the merits of those cases at all.

You know what, you're wrong.

No one cared about the US Attorney firings except some liberal bloggers. They kept digging away and lo and behold, Alberto Gonzales and a number of other political hacks at Justice are now gone. I can't help but wonder if Rove is really a side benefit of that.

The MSM didn't care about the story at all until it had already been researched the hell out of. The naysayers at these blogs would say it's boring, shut up, Clinton, blah, blah, blah.

Frankly, I do care that there are educated (lawyers, for God's sake) people out there advocating the anti-American things they are spewing.

There is a reason that Glenn Beck gets paid $50,000,000 for a five year radio contract and it's not because of talent or demand.

It's to get his ideas (and people like him) out there, it demarginalizes them.

No, don't you get it? That fact that he was detained at all means he must be an "accused enemy propagandist" that should never have legal recourse, due process, torture against him would protect your family, etc.

The fact that hundreds were released from Abu Gharaib prison after the revelation doesn't register with the wingnuts, if they were there, they must have been guilty. The same is true for Guantanemo.

I don't know how they wrap themselves around the fact that 1000's have since been released if you count all the detention centers. Is it that the military wants to let the terrorists go? Or could it be that they were innocent form the start?

Okay, form should have been from ( I do that all the time, damn!) and revelations should have been revelations of abuse.

I wish Salon had an edit function...

My last remaining hope is that the thousands of folks that read but choose not to comment at blogs like UT are doing so because they have bigger fish to fry than being "a regular" at a "lefty" blog.,

Thanks for the concern. It's so good that you'll read and follow 200 posts on a somewhat unwieldy blog to dismiss it's regulars and pass judgement about waste of time.

I guess you're just taking off time from saving the world. Keep up the good work, things are going great.

I do find Paul refreshing, I enjoy people that are unapologetic in their views and straighforward. I agree with posters that think that Kucinich fits this bill, too, but for some reason, he isn't resonating like Paul, maybe because he can't reach into the R base that feels disaffected by the Bush administration.

Thanks Glenn, also for not conflating odd duck supporters with the candidate.

Ron Paul is getting alot of benefit of projection of his supporters views onto himself. Just because the white supremists "think" (hopes that somes things he says are code speak) that he agrees with them, doesn't make it so. Ron Paul doesn't seem to be a guy that hides his views. Besides, the white supremist nut jobs tend to truly fear the government, so a believable WASP that pledges to reduce govt. interference is going to strongly appeal to them, especially if the candidate is for gun rights.

As far as abortion, I'm very pro-choice and will always vote that way. That being said, I respect that there are people out there that do believe a fetus is a human worthy of all rights. Ron Paul (like Alan Keyes) seems to be one of those and is consistent and non-apologetic about it...doesn't speak in code talk (Dred Scott decisions, etc.) on the topic like Bush, or Thompson, Rudy, etc.

I'm sick to death of double speak and equivacation on both sides of the aisle, and it would be great if some of candidates on the Dem side of the aisle would learn from this "phenomenom".

Is Dennis Kucinich not consistent enough for you?

He certainly is for me, same with Dodd. The trouble is (I leave it to others to list the reasons) their principled liberal, progressive views don't capture the disaffected the same way the libertarians do.

If Kucinich or Dodd all of a sudden starts getting tons of money dumped their way, I'll be pleasantly suprised.

I'd be even more pleasantly suprised if Obama or Edwards starts taking lessons from Paul, Kucinich, Dodd and Gravel...the crazies (Dodd has somehow escaped that label) that are not afraid to say exactly what they believe, even if it's unpopular and not just attacking Bush or Hillary, but the system they represent.