[CE2949BB]

I loved Win Ben Stein’s Money. It was one of my favorite shows.

I wrote the guy off when he started supporting Creationism - uh, er - “Intelligent Design”.

[tips up]

I agree. He has written some great editorials but recently his views seem a bit wacky.

[Ken522]

It sounds like Mr. Stein has gone over to the Dark Side ..

[Palladin]

I think Ben’s kid is driving him nuts.

[Carley]

He’s hoping for a job on MSNBC?

[Political Junkie Too]

Here's what I call the Rush Limbaugh Theory of Conservatism:

You know the old saying that a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged? Well, a liberal is a conservative who has made so much money, that they couldn't possibly spend it in their lifetime.

-PJ

[abb]

If you spend too much time in Hollywood or Washington DC, you become acclimatized. It’s called “going native.”

Happens all the time.

[Kirkwood]

I only met him once, but I got the feeling that he’s an FDR democrat at heart. He doesn’t really fit in anywhere.

[Azzurri]

Ben Stein has always been at his roots an Eastern Establishment type, more comfortable with the elites than with the grass roots.

[Mr. Peabody]

He’s in full panic mode. His investments have gone south.

[Oratam]

Doesn't he live in Sandpoint or whatever it is Idaho just down the road from Sly Stallone and a whole bunch of Hollywood types. He's about as mainstream America as . . . well as a guy living on the beach in Malibu.

By the way, where's Mr. Precious these days?

[fish hawk]

When God chose the Jewish people as “His”, He chose them as a nation. Had he chosen them one by one, on merit and brains, some would not have gotten picked. You know what I mean.

[DoughtyOne]

Stein was supporting the idea that if the government wants to just print money, it’s not a problem at a time like this considering supposed deflation. He was also on board about any bailout you could imagine. It didn’t sit well with me.

[Cyber Liberty]

He’s gone to the dark side.

[Gator113]

There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension
as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle-ground between
light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the
pit of man’s fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of
imagination. It is an area we call the “Twilight Zone”.

[Brilliant]

Ben Stein is a Nixon conservative. In other words, he’s a liberal.

[freekitty]

Maybe he’s made anough money off the conservatives and has decided to switch because he can make money off the lefties now. I have noticed several are going that route.

What cheap cowards.

[Yaelle]

What happened to his son, who was addicted to a video game and had to be sent away to school? How old is he now?

[Mr. K]

I thought the same thing last time I saw him on TV- I thought he was a conservstive

[TheWasteLand]

Before this thread gets completely hijacked, I will agree with you that Stein seems to have lost his mind.

Either that or he's a fair-weather conservative, and now that a severe economic bubble has burst, he's jumped ship to join the FDR types.