I’m not exactly sure what your reasoning is for having this column but if it has anything to do with trying to give your readership some insight into the thinking of the modern conservative—please stop! We’ve already had eight years of this disingenuous crap shoved down our throats, so you can spare us the education on the stunted and short sided mental processes of neocons.

Furthermore, if you are going to give this person a forum and subject us to this drivel, at least have the good taste and courage to insist that the writer use his/her real name. You say this is a former “Bush official who chooses to remain anonymous” but I think we’ve all endured enough lack of transparency from that administration to last us a lifetime.

Thanks,

Chad Bagley (my real name)

I think I forgot to mention in my post above that ‘Wingnut’ is an evasive, moronic liar.

Who was the hearthrob you ran a fan site for?

No gushing over right wing radio Camille?

Perhaps you finally got a clue and discovered how supid you've sounded for the past three years!

It's nice to know that we're not the only country with rigged elections.

...And the Republicans hate them all!

If I wanted to hear this crap I'd just turn on the news. I subscribe to Salon to get away from this insipid drivel.

Wingnut said: "The United States remains a center-right country composed of people who believe in center-right values, like family, hard work and honesty."

Center right values my ass! Those are human values and the panjandrums of the right avoid them like the plague. The ideologues that make up the right in this country (and I include you here) only appreciate those values when they meet the narrow definition that you troglodytes give them.

You believe in family as long as that family is the traditional Judea Christian nuclear family and they are not in need of any help. But as soon as you define family values as meaning that all children have a right to grow up with adequate health care and an education, your vaunted family values go right out the window.

You like hard work as long as that hard work is helping to fill your pockets. But when it comes to unions, workers rights, and equitable incomes you conservative policy makers become apoplectic. You are either too myopic or intellectually dishonest to see that the poor and disenfranchised in this country have always worked harder than you.

As for honesty, I don’t think you or your conservative handlers really appreciate that at all. Take this column for instance. It doesn’t seem to bother you that you sling the same tired bullshit every month even though you know good and well that you constantly evade the real issue and the real questions.

"From death photos to celebrity sound-bites, the three-ring circus of mourning Michael Jackson has just begun."

And Salon is right there in lock step joining the circus!

"This bill requires a 20 percent CO2 cut by 2020 compared to 2005 levels, a 42 percent cut by 2030 and a whopping 83 percent cut by 2050."

Too little, too late. This would have been a great bill in 1990 but now it's pathetic and short sighted. This is little more than rearanging the deck chairs of the Titanic.

Farragut: “This fantasy, including the fantasy that the human race is the guiding force in global warming, will go the way of the dodo”

One word for you farragut: read? From your tortured prose I’m not sure if you are capable of this but if you have this wondrous and very useful ability, please do so you don’t sound like such a pathetic, sad and uninformed wanker.

jcjcjcjc: “This bill, like every other progressive policy idea (Medicare, Social Security, Welfare, etc.), is designed to create a set of dire circumstances to play on the fears of the American public …”

Hey jcjcjcjc, you should be grateful for Medicare, Social Security and Welfare because it’s pretty apparent that your profound apparent lack of intelligence will no doubt make you a ward of at least one of these programs in the near future.

If there is one thing Americans love it’s a good scapegoat. There is nothing quite like projecting our collective pathologies onto another person and then watching them burn for what all know are our own crimes.

Ironically, McNamara could point fingers with the best of them. Till the end of his life he stoically justified his technocratic decisions. If the title weren’t already taken, his biography could be called “Mistakes were made, but not by me.”

Sarah Palin hasn’t done any more or less than any decent mother. To single her out as some kind of Ur mother or paragon of motherhood is disingenuous at best and stupid at worse.

Actually, Andrew Johnson was probably the most illiterate president of the 19th century. He never attended school and was taught to read by his wife when he was 17.

By the way, there is no virtue in being a moron-- despite whatever other qualities a person my have!