[Nam Vet]

I have long considered Barone one of the most, if not THE most, astute and accurate of political pundits when it comes to elections.

Nam Vet

[HateBill]

The best thing about Barone is that I can count on learning something new when he is on. Usually, pundits just regurgitate "conventional wisdom" and their useless opinions (and I feel I am far better informed than they given the hours and hours and hours I spend on FR), but Barone may even know more than the diligent Freeper!

I did have the benefit of meeting him in person and telling him something he did not know. He appeared at a Manhattan Institute event shortly after 911. He talked about Flight 93 and mentioned the crew that took over the plane as being "reminiscent of a World War II movie" with a gay, a Jew, a jock, etc. He mentioned that all they needed was an evangelical Christian.

I had the joy of alerting him to the story of Todd Beamer who was, in fact, an Evangelical Christian.