[Rokke]

"Who's "we"? You and the mouse in your pocket?"

"We" just might be everyone BUT the 3500 or so people who actually bothered to sign Frum's ridiculous petition. Are you telling me that you admire someone who thinks starting a petition is an effective means of influencing opinion? I guess I missed his petition on CFR, immigration, congressional spending and any number of worthy issues.

[JCEccles]

I think the petition had a small but welcome part in keeping the momentum building to get this ghastly nomination killed before President Bush got bruised and embarrassed beyond recovery in the Senate hearings.

I didn't sign it. But then, I was already fully aware of what was at stake. A petition has value as a center of gravity around which opinion may coalesce, gain mass, and thereby draw more distant, disinterested opinion toward it.

This is a great day in America. I am confident that George W. Bush isn't pouting or moping like the few Mierskats at FR.

[NittanyLion]

Are you telling me that you admire someone who thinks starting a petition is an effective means of influencing opinion?

Are you telling me you don't think exercising free speech via a petition is an effective means of influencing opinion?