After all, who would think that mild manner, thoughtful, quiet spoken people like Levin would want to fight rather than reason.
I just stumbled across Levin on another thread and was literally shocked at his responses.
I have always considered him an intellectual middleweight, but he seemed unable to cough up much more than "you did it first" and "I know you are but what am I"s in response.
I expected him (more than most), to have the ability to rise above the pettiness of the namecalling and rhetoric. I do admire him for mixing it up, but namecalling, flaming, insulting, because the other guy did it first doesn't help the case. In fact, his case seemed as weak as "trust Bush" is (and how unfair to respond as if that has been the only argument made in defense of Miers nomination).