I'm a liberal, but I would be totally comfortable with Ron Paul as president. Certainly more comfortable than with Clinton or Romney.

If the Republic can (barely) survive eight years of G.W. Bush, we should certainly consider giving Mr. Paul a run for our money.

He may have some radical ideas, but he's got a track record with honesty and character that none of his opponents in either party can match.

Given my tremendous disappointment in both of my home state senators (Warner and Webb) voting for FISA amnesty for telcos, I'm voting for Ron Paul in the Virginia Republican Primary.

I think Ron Paul will surprise quite a few people before this whole thing plays out.

...based on how many times you've posted on Salon. It's nothing personal.

... that require psychological help. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder; apparently perversion is also.

I was expecting something shocking; those photos are harmless. Tasteless, perhaps, but totally harmless.

You can uncover plenty of truly shocking images on the internet with seven keystrokes entered into Google. The net-nannies' priorities on this one are totally out of whack...

I appreciate your point, but what are we to do? Have Dr. Phil interview the family on national TV? Publicly cross examine the other Boy Scouts under oath? Waterboard David Huckabee until he spills the beans on his purported childhood abuse?

Sure, there is something, but what? You are making assumptions that are totally unsupportable by available information, and it is not fair to Mike Huckabee to insinuate otherwise.

If his son's behavior was caused by abuse from his pastor or a neighbor or a babysitter, and not his family as you imply, would that still reflect badly on his son's upbringing by his father? We just don't have enough hard facts regarding cause and effect.

The David Huckabee story in the context related here is attempted character assassination of Mike Huckabee by association.

The same is true of the other three stories here. Guiliani didn't staple and kill a dog, his girlfriend did. Romney did what he did in a different era, when pets were seen much more as objects than they are now.

I am much more concerned about Romney's acquiesce to the Mormon Church's institutionalized racism than whether or not he tied a dog cage to the roof of his station wagon in the 1980's.

I'm a liberal, and for substantive reasons too numerous to mention here, I am not all that impressed with any of the candidates in this story. Does that mean Salon has to stoop to the innuendo, slime and sensationalism currently in vogue on the right?

I mean, c'mon, we all basically knew that Bush did community service in Houston for a coke bust, and had his record expunged, or just plain lost.

He didn't show up for his National Guard physical because he had coke in his system and would have flunked a drug test.

That was real news. That was indicative of his character. The MSM wouldn't touch that one with a ten-foot pole, and look what we ended up with.

I admit that there may be something darkly disturbing to some folks about some of these 'dog tales', but this post comes across as an attempt at cheap sensationalism to me.

It's not nearly as disturbing as half a million dead Iraqis or half a trillion dollars looted from the US Treasury.

Let's not stoop to the same level as opposition on the right.

here's more about things that go better with coke:

http://www.worstpresidentever.com/coke.html

and in closing, when you say that you are ready to stoop if it helps the Democrats win, this is saying that the end justifies the means, and I thought we were better than that.

it IS yours, right, Keith? ;-)

Seriously, congratulations on the good luck of both medical outcomes.

this is why everyone is so eager to roll over for them.

they can't touch Feingold or Dodd because (unlike most of our elected representatives) the NSA hasn't got any electronic dirt on them.

scoff if you like. imagine for a minute that Bushco IS using secretly gathered wiretaps and email taps to intimidate the competition, as well as members of the media establishment.

think how chilling it would be to receive a phone call at 2am replaying a conversation you had with your mistress, or an email with all of the links you surfed for the last two months.

1984 is alive and well. AT&T - your world, delivered, indeed...

"journalistic integrity"

When I first heard that Bill Clinton had lied under oath in the deposition regarding the Lewinsky matter, my first thought was "He's the president, he lied under oath, he'll have to resign."

Well, I was wrong about that one. If WJC had taken the high road and resigned before the scandal enveloped his legacy, Al Gore could have been president for two years prior to running against G.W. Dickhead. Gore would have totally trounced Bush in the 2000 election (and maybe without Joe Lieberman as a running mate).

Hillary may drag it out to the bitter end and try to take a few chunks out of Obama with dirty tricks and character assassination. It's her prerogative -- and her funeral.

If she aspires to statesmanship, she will bow out gracefully after N.H.

Obama's momentum would crush the GOP and sweep all the way through to next November. It's just not gonna happen with a Clinton two-for-one.

Barack Obama is onto something bigger than the Clintstones ever imagined. Hill & Bill can try and tear him down, or get out of the way so that the United States can show the world that G.W. Retard is not the face of America.

...but I admit you hit the nail on the head with this one.

He slept with her, that's why she feels ok to act in such a familiar fashion.