The American Spectator

p> 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). br> — Cookie Sewell br> Aberdeen, MD /p> p> 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. br> — Dennis M. Duggan br> Associate Professor of Medical Physics br> Vanderbilt University /p>

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.

p>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.