Ellen Ratner is not the most horrible liberal around. That is, she's a nice person and was a good sport when DC Chapter saw her at our FReep of the Dem's Count Every Vote rally in Oct of 2002.
tgslTakoma took this great photo with (L-R) FreetheHostages, BufordP (not sure who the guy is behind him), Ellen Ratner, 3D-Joy, kristinn, Angelwood, BillF, and Doctor Raoul.
A few months after that, I almost fell out of my chair watching Ellen Ratner (ER) interviewed by Brenda Buttner (BB) of Fox News. Click here for facedown's excellent post on this, which included the following transcript:
Ratner: BB: You're basically saying that he's going to be reelected, I mean essentially unless the economy tanks...ER: That is unless he messes up the war....my hope.
BB: Your hope?!
ER: Well, I don't want him to be reelected.
BB: Right, but I mean, 'mess up the war,' what do you mean by that?
ER: Do something that will make Americans say 'Maybe we shouldn't have done this.' You know, that kind of thing.
Ratner thus verbalized what many liberals were thinking, but few would publicly say. She wanted bad things to happen to this country in hopes that it would prevent President Bush from being re-elected. Ratner apologized a few days later, but she was insincere.