[SE Mom]

No one knows how to react to clear and honest talk from a politician.

[ApplegateRanch]

I try to apply a Heinleinian 'axiom'.

The greater the zeal to hold public office, the more likely the candidate is mentally unfit to hold it, regardless of apparent qualifications

Cases in point are abundant in the House & Senate...and in the Clinton Crime Family

[moneyrunner]

See, this is what I don't understand. The flow of information is no longer uni-directional. There are more fact checkers out there than ever before. The quality control of the drive-by-media practitioners has never been high. Now the quality checkers are swarming around the Jills of this world, and the putrid product they produce looks less and less appetizing the longer it's examined. They claim to have "fact checkers" and, in fact, disdain the blogosphere for not having them. So why do the "fact checkers" (the MSM QC people) let this sort of junk get published? The answer is simple, really, the fact checkers are as clueless as the Jills of the world. The sort of idiocy that Jill wrote would strike a reasonable person as highly suspect and worth checking out. But to the sort of people who "fact check" this trash, given their ideological homogeneity, this sort of thing is, to their mind, "natural," coming from a Conservative. To them, conservatism is uncharted territory and they have no feel for what real conservatives say or do.

[petercooper]

bttt

[Waco]

Sounds like the useful idiots are getting desparate, don’t it.

[ArrogantBustard]

I’m only consumed by very, very few things. Politics is not one of them. The welfare of our country and our kids and grandkids is one of them.

And that's why I'm a Fred supporter.

[RinaseaofDs]

Any putative Republican that reads this and still wants to vote for McCain, Romney, or Huckabee is, well, lost.