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.

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.

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.

Andrew's change has nothing to do with conscience and everything to do with opportunism.

--Anonymous

And maybe steroids, too.

I wish I still had that NY Times Magazine article in which he extols the transformative, masculinizing powers of his prescriptions. Why, it made him grateful for the gift of AIDS!

Open primaries do exist, you know.

I know, and I'm sure millions of otherwise-affiliated folks vote in Republican presidential primaries out of sheer whimsy.

And I don't think Ron Paul is the embodiment of all things evil; yes, I even agree with him on certain issues. I just don't see how any responsible American, at this particular moment in our nation's hostory, can waste a moment weighing the merits of anyone in the Republican field when there's so much work to be done simply struggling to identify the least odious of the Democrats.

Don't miss the op-ed in today's New York Times by former Navy translator Stephen Benjamin, "Don't Ask, Don't Translate" -- a stark look at our armed forces' skewed priorities and double standards, not to mention the utter lack of seriousness with which our government conducts (and exploits) the so-called "War on Terror."

Well let's see, Glenn et al. has been wrong about Plame, Katrina, Swift Banking Scandal, Telephone databases rather than eavesdropping, The actual effect of signing statements and Club Gitmo.

-- shooter242

Nobody pulls the wool over your eyes, eh? We can try our diabolical best to persuade you that elephants lay eggs and Jennifer Aniston invented the steam engine, but you have the guts to stick to your guns because you know for a righteous fact that steam engines lay eggs and elephants invented Jennifer Aniston.

If had any knowledge of this country's history ...

-- tiberius

If had two more IQ points you be houseplant.

we have created, and continue to create deadly enemies.

-- bilzim

I think Blackwater calls it "expanding the franchise."

...you're wrong this time, especially in your comparisons of theatre and television. Yes, for every DOUBT there are five DEUCEs and for every GREY GARDENS there are ten TARZANs. But for every SOPRANOS there are a hundred TWO AND A HALF MENs. Jeff Whitty has already nailed your complaints about the "development" process, where TV almost makes Broadway look like a temple of artistic purity. In fact, the commercial theatre has been attempting to ape the television model for years with great enthusiasm and generally dire results.

And the date for the Tonys was set long before the SOPRANOS finale was scheduled -- it's a complicated live broadcast, not a pre-recorded episode, remember?

Still wishing you all the best,

Neal Leibowitz

I know I've said this here before, but I think it bears repeating:

I am a gay man. Rush Limbauigh, Johah Goldberg, Joe Lieberman, et al are faggots.

Chris Mathews, on the other hand, is in a class by himself. Watching him squirm in his seat with homoerotic delight, I can only speculate on the immensity of the butt-plug he's pleasuring himself with while he's on the air.

Not the Tim W. Brown!?!?! Really?!?! The famous, er, what? Author? Of ... um ... what, exactly?

This is so exciting! Who knew such big celebrities were reading, and even commenting, on Glenn's modest, obscure little bog -- let alone Tim W. BROWN!!!!! I've been such a big fan of yours since ...

Say, who the fuck are you, anyway? We've certainly gotten a putrid taste of who you think you are.