[miss marmelstein]

Pathetic attempts at humor is this piece as well. Cooke is way too heavy-handed a writer to be witty.

[firebrand]

He also wrote his book, The Conservatarian Manifesto, based on an idea he got from Free Republic, yet he distorted it to mean "We can win by throwing the gay marriage issue and the drug war issue under the bus, to appeal to the libertarians, and keeping the pro-life plank to appeal to the conservatives."

That is not deep thinking. It's just compromise with a fancy name.