[2ndDivisionVet]

I love these "... and as a life-long Republican, blah-blah-blah, yada-yada-yada..." columns and letters-to-the-editor screeds.

Damon Linker is a senior correspondent at TheWeek.com. He is also a consulting editor at the University of Pennsylvania Press, a contributing editor at The New Republic, and the author of The Theocons and The Religious Test.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Well then, instead of telling you to eat s**t, how about you eat some used food?

[SgtHooper]

From what I skimmed, this is the typical leftist moron.

[alstewartfan]

Why do you suppose that this fragile shell of a man ever supported the Republican Party? I don’t believe him; he’s probably a homosexual, if I were to guess. Bob

[x]

Back in March 2013, I wrote a column titled, "Why I am no longer a Republican." A more accurate (though admittedly more ponderous) title would have been, "One important reason among many that I am no longer a Republican."

This guy is way too into himself. Why would anyone else care about his opinions enough to read all his opuses?

Today, my voting record says I'm a Democrat. I voted for Kerry in 2004 and Obama in 2008 and 2012. I nearly always support Democrats in House, Senate, and gubernatorial elections. But I don't identify closely with or feel deep loyalty to the Democratic Party, its agenda, or its electoral coalition.

That's also silly. I suppose in Damon's media world, everybody he meets is a slave to one party or the other, to one party's monolithic world view or the other's.

In the real world, at least a quarter -- maybe a third -- of voters don't feel strong loyalty or attachment or identification with either of the two major parties.

People out there are Democrats or Republicans in the same way that Damon Linker is a Democrat -- not a Republican -- because they dislike the party they usually (or always) vote for less than the other one.

But we don't feel the need to send out missives regularly about our opinions and their evolution.

[Dr. Sivana]

Oh, PLEASE Damon. You live near Philadelphia. We are SO close to making progress there. What do we have to do to persuade you and your Ithaca-educated wife to become Republicans and put our Grand Old Party over the top in Philadelphia?

[impactplayer]

If you can tell me why 4 Americans died on American soil and no one came to their aid or was held accountable, then I will agree with you.

[bray]

If you vote for a Marxist, what does that make you?

Pray America wakes up

[Red Badger]

I guess he wasn’t getting the invites to all the cool people’s parties he was expecting..................

[rlmorel]

"...Today, my voting record says I'm a Democrat. I voted for Kerry in 2004 and Obama in 2008 and 2012. I nearly always support Democrats in House, Senate, and gubernatorial elections. But I don't identify closely with or feel deep loyalty to the Democratic Party..."

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

[mulligan]

What bunch of BS nonsense.

[LucianOfSamasota]

Another Commie justifying his transgressions?

[grimalkin]

Old hat. There were the anti anti-communists. People who were not members of the communist party, but hated all those against them. Same thing.

This Damon individual can scribble screeds all day and it won't change the fact that he's a leftist POS.

[Billthedrill]

It’s a simple admission that he won’t take a stand on anything he’s for but he certainly knows how to hate whoever he’s been told to. He’s also being paid for the word, and “I” is easy to type.

[TigersEye]

Damon is not too bright.

Let's put the Iraq War in context. We were in a state of war with Iraq, under a cease fire.

• 1. Iraqi provocation of American planes patrolling the no-fly zone. "More than 42,000 sorties were flown during that time. Iraqi surface-to-air missiles and other anti-aircraft systems targeted ONW aircrews on nearly every flight." (That sounds like 42,000 reasons to me but I'll only count it as one. I doubt you care whether any American or British planes get shot down.)
• 2. Saddam defied 17 UN resolutions that were a result of his losing the war. (again, that should count as 17 reasons but you get a break because you're a liberal who would cry if you had to face reality.)
• 3. Saddam tried to assassinate a former U.S. President.
• 4. Saddam was killing the Marsh Arabs in southern Iraq that we had promised protection.
• 5. Iraq's nuclear weapons program.
• 6. Iraq's biological weapons program.
• 7. Iraq's chemical weapons program.
• 8. Saddam's extensive cooperation with terrorists.

I left out the 500,000+ people Saddam had killed because, after all, Damon wouldn't care about those filthy little brown people. Right? /s

[entropy12]

Damon, you are not anti-republican. You are an azzhole.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Any “life-long Republican” who votes for the Communist-Democrats now is either lying, stupid or insane.

[Erik Latranyi]

The desperation of liberals is being realized. They see it all slipping away in the next 2 years...returning them to the hell of minority party with a conservative in the White House.

Expect these types of letters to be written nationwide, to your local paper, by libs who hope to depress our turnout.

[cowboyusa]

Seminar journalist.

[Amagi]

Damon Linker, you're a low-down dirty liar.
You can't handle the truth.

[Osage Orange]

She’s a moron!!