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7.30.03 @ 12:54AM

HIGHEST ACCOLADE
Re: Enemy Central's Milkman and the Coyote:

Clinton's going to look at his EOW award and think, "I've still got it!"
-- Mike Baron
Fort Collins, CO

FILL IN THIS
Re: R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.'s Lack of Intelligence:

I am offended at your comparing me to H. Dean and other Democrats running for office. I would appreciate it if you could find a better adjective than "born blank."
-- J. Blank

NUTSO FAST
Re: Jed Babbin's Are You Nuts?

Mr. Babbin overlooked perhaps the central stupidity of the report: its basis. If you wade through the document (only do this if you are suffering from insomnia), you will note that it is basically a meta-analysis of previous studies and the overwhelming majority of those studies are surveys of the feelings of college students in the U.S. and in other countries. Only a moron or a Berkeley psychiatrist (the latter is a subset of the former) would believe that you could understand a political philosophy or the leaders of a political movement by examining the views of college students who probably couldn't spell psychiatry, let alone Adorno.
-- Joel Margolis

Jed Babbin's call on the UC Berkeley study as to what makes a conservative fits in well with Ann Coulter's recent analysis in her book Treason. All one has to do is mirror image the complaints and allegations and it's easy to see the real problems of the left. It's just scary that deluded people -- who think that educational institutions are logical and that people calling themselves Democrats are not really socialist operatives under false colors -- believe the drivel that comes out of Berkeley (I do like the epithet "Berserkley" -- makes sense to me).
-- Cookie Sewell
Aberdeen, MD

Jed Babbin's article on the Berkeley psychiatry professors' pseudo-intellectual analysis of conservatives was very entertaining and informative. Jed probably is aware of this, but before the Cal shrinks listed Hitler and Mussolini as conservatives along with Rush Limbaugh and Ronald Reagan someone should have reminded them of what NAZI stands for. Hitler and Mussolini were just as serious about the socialism in "National Socialism" as they were about the nationalism. The American leader whose political and economic philosophies most closely resembles theirs was Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a figure who I believe is still rather admired in Berkeley.
-- Dennis M. Duggan
Associate Professor of Medical Physics
Vanderbilt University

The worst part about these Democratic candidates [discussed by Jed Babbin] is that there are people who actually agree with them. According to folks like Mr. Graham, there's nothing wrong with being anal retentive (AR) or obsessive compulsive (OC). In fact, if I was to train myself like Senator Graham, I could force myself to be AR/OC -- for the good of this country if I could get elected.

I too was raised on a farm but I guess I could never aspire to become an elected politician (at least a senator) since my daddy never taught me to write down which room I changed my drawers in or did my laundry.
-- Stu Margrey
Denton, MD

Her Royal Clintoness was correct, you know, when she once referred to us conservatives as the "vast right-wing conspiracy." We are right and we are vast, but only when compared to the half-vast left-wingers. Great article, JB!
-- Kitty Myers
Painted Post, NY

Thank you for making me laugh out loud this morning. You have made my day.
-- E. Sulecki

CRUZ CONTROL
Re: The Washington Prowler's You Heard It Here

NOT SO FAST!! Republican candidates for the top job in California are in a real bind. Davis has them in a corner. True, the Democrat code, demonstrated time and time again, has been never show weakness when faced with proof of dishonesty, lying, corruption, or incompetence, never resign, and just tough it out. If Davis breaks that code (as Torricelli did in New Jersey) and resigns, he can obviate the need for a recall election and do it at his whim. As soon as Davis realizes (if he hasn't already) that he can't win, he'll begin to negotiate his "severance" package. Once that is done and at a time when he any his party believe that the Republicans have committed maximum resources, Davis will resign. He'll turn the state over to Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante, who will continue to do to California what Davis has done except there will be many new replacement individuals who will be rewarded. The California constitution has provisions for succession which supersede any recall methodology. Bustamante will be governor long before any of the named Republicans.
-- unsigned

UNPRETTY PICTURES
Re: Reid Collins' Let's Not Go to the Videotape:

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