The American Spectator

br> San Diego, California /p> p> As a former Republican I find this article, and other articles in your magazine, hard to digest since they seem to espouse only one point of view, yours, which is the party’s perspective, which I suppose is the only correct point of view on the planet. Now that would be funny in itself if you didn’t write like such a pr—k. Maybe people would listen more if you wrote like a real journalist with real facts. Like most of the radical Republicans and Democrats today you dispense your opinions like all the other rubes who manipulate data to suit their own ideological needs and to hell with liberty and justice for all. What happened to the real and decent Republicans? Today most editors of publications are naive mental midgets who believe only in the orderly, God-filled universe. So did Hitler and so does the fictional character Hannibal Lector. br> — Bryan van Bergen br> New Jersey /p>

A number of conservative commentators, including yourself, have commented on the “dignity” Dick Cheney showed in the debate by waiving the remainder of his time on the issue of his daughter and gay marriage. You are reading something into it that is not there. I believe that Cheney did three things here:

1) articulated the rationale of the Gay Marriage Amendment as a response to runaway court activism; 2) professed his loyalty to George Bush and the Republican Party; 3) made it clear that he is not carrying any more water for the administration on this issue.

p>This was indeed a display of dignity, but not in the sense that you meant it. br> — Glen Hoffing /p> p> Your article today was brilliant and the best I’ve read thus far on the debate. I also was so impressed by our vice president and so happy to know he is on our side. I just don’t understand why so many others are writing and saying different things about the debate last night??? I listen and can’t believe we were all watching the same debate. At any rate, your article was fantastic, thank you for it. br> —