LWM, St. Paul, and William decided that a non-Democrat was just not going to work out and the rest is history.

You've dropped another veil, Salome. There are numerous non-Democrats among the regular (and respected) commenters here. You're not actually as familiar with this blog as you claim, or you're utterly blinded by your ideology, or you're just devious. I'm betting on the last.

Freedom scare you also?

Now there's an iron fist in a velvet glove -- a freedom-wielding bully!

Again, nice facade you've built, but it doesn't muffle the screams coming from the parlor. And "codswallop" isn't nearly as adorable a word as you seem to think.

How does that follow?

It follows that in order to vote for a person, even the sainted Ron Paul, who is running as a Republican candidate in the Republican presidential primary, one usually has to be a registered Republican. It couldn't follow more doggedly if it was on a leash.

I wrote that I supported Ron Paul. Yes, I know --- no chance in hell of winning, but I will vote for him.

So you're still a registered Republican. How very libertarian of you.

I have read no one else here tell me of a better candidate --- I think they all are waiting for Glenn to make a endorsement. (if true, how sad is that?)

It's sadder still that you have effectively hijacked every conversation since you arrived, but if you dip back into the pre-Bucky era, you will find discussion and debate about various current and potential presidential candidates, although since much of it was about Democrats you may not in fact recognize their fitness for office (or even their very existence.) You will also find a higher percentage of comments relevant to Glenn's post than has been the case since your advent. Perhaps you should start your own blog instead of annexing this one.

You do a mighty fine David Brooks imitation, Mr. Bucky. The presentation is so civilize, erudite and practically avuncular that it takes most people a while to realize how outrageous the content really is.

... to alert me when "The Bucky Show" is over? This "all libertarianism, all the time" playlist is getting downright oppressive.

Donning my tin-foil hat, I wonder if this isn't a concerted effort by the "no-government" elitists to leap in and grab some vulnerable converts while public opinion of both Republicans and Democrats is at such a low ebb.

This comments section has gone to hell and back and hell again in your absence.

Man, your stuff would be dynamite stand-up comedy -- almost Colbert-calibre satire -- if you could only conceal the fact that you're writing from the high-security locked ward of a state mental institution.

You're afraid of "socialized medicine" but not the dismantling of your most basic civil rights? That's not ideology, babe, that's pathology.

relabel the Republican Party the Radical Party.

-- MacK.

Absolutely NOT! "Radical" is very much in vogue as a compliment; in fact, having just watched the documentary Jesus Camp, the frequency with which these Xianist kids use "radical" as a term of approbation is very fresh in my mind.

Let's be absolutely honest, accurate, and non-hyperbolic and call the Republicans what they are: the Death-to-America Party.

What's the point in saying anything at all

-- RealName

In your case, none.

You add nothing to the debate. You stagger in here spewing random bitchery and begging "kick me, hurt me, call me filthy names." Why not show you support for free-market capitalism and hire some reputable, experienced professional dominatrix who'll be happy to do the job and pocket your crumpled singles with gratitude? This public self-abasement of yours is unseemly.

Apparently you need to engage in a "bloody path to virility"--or at least appear to have done so--to be taken seriously in our culture.

-- moerex

Unless, of course, you're a Republican. George Bush, Dick Cheney, Karl Rove ... not even the appearance of a "bloody path to virility" anywhere in the bunch.

abject: 2 (of a person or their behavior) completely without pride or dignity; self-abasing :

That's kdwmson in a nutshell, which is exactly where such nuts belong.

Perhaps this is where, as a chick, you retort "if you have to ask, I'm not going to tell you"?

-- shooter242

Perhaps this is where, as a chancre, you cause pain and inflamation while spreading disease.

Greenwald's coffeehouse psychoanalysis ... is the sort of thing that sounds profound when you're about 16. And high.

-- kdwmson

kdwmson's abject desperation ... is the sort of thing that sounds reasonable when your "leaders" have been exposed as crooks, liars, serial adulterers, child molesters and hypocrites. And traitors.

kdwmson's minuscule penis ... is the sort of thing that looks normal when you're a newborn baby. And a hermaphrodite.

kdwmson's blanket condemnation of psychoanalysis ... is the sort of thing that sounds understandable when, like him, you've been institutionalized involuntarily. And remain a danger to yourself and others.

Leaves me wondering though if it is safe to assume Tiberius calls his father daddy.

--Anonymous

No, it's safe to assume that tiberius calls strange men he meets in public rest rooms "daddy."

Don't worry about the nation losing its soul, Georgie. Dick Cheney can arrange a no-bid contract with Halliburton to provide us with a new (leaky, substandard) soul for a mere trillion dollars or so.

Well, I'm definitely rude, but I'm no pundit. Thanks for fixing the update.

Something appears to have gone horribly, tragically wrong with the fifth update to this story. Did Glenn farm out the job of posting it to Halliburton?

Safari quits. Explorer quits. Same results on two different Macs two days running. Very frustrating.

Shitter242 is guzzling his morning Kool-Aid with a side of bigotry.

Neocons and their enablers have a remarkable talent for talking out of both sides of their faces (plus their asses) at the same time. They put even the greatest ventriloquists to shame.