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3.26.08 @ 12:01AM

RUNNIN' WILD
Re: Jeffrey Lord's The Liberal Mania: Crazy in a Bubble:

Jeffrey Lord's "The Liberal Mania" may well be the best, most revealing, and informative essay in TAS in my memory. I struggle to find its equal.

Thanks, Mr. Lord.
-- A. C. Santore

Loved it! WFB's analogy of defining the irrational liberal thought process in clinical terms is fitting. Michael Savage has described it as "a mental disorder." When liberals speak about an issue, it's only to tell you that you're wrong because you are a hateful, insensitive S.O.B., oblivious to their own hateful insensitivities. Liberals are often confused when making moral equivalencies, they don't like to judge les they be judged themselves, "if it feels good, do it," if it's matter of personal gain, then by all means "just do it" (as proclaimed by a national advertising campaign), there are no consequences (until there are consequences then the blame goes to someone else). It's like living in a liberal fantasy theme park -- Bizarro World!
-- John Nelson
Hebron, Connecticut

Reading Mr. Lord's piece I'm reminded of a Firing Line show many years ago when Mr. Buckley's guest was an old white-haired man named Foote (don't recall his first name) from Great Britain. He was at the time or had been some head socialist or Laborite leader or some such thing (sorry for the vagueness). Mr. Foote was speaking in this insufferably snotty (I guess the word today would be snarky) condescending manner and finally Mr. Buckley stops him and says something like, "Before we go any further, can we (you) get over this notion (or attitude) that everything I say is crap and everything you say is non-crap." It was beautiful. It illustrated the "there is no debate" attitude of most liberals on duty mentioned in Mr. Lord's piece.
-- Jens Andersen

I admit it, you hooked me with your title Geraldine Limbaugh but I'm glad you did. Jeffery Lord wrote a whiz-bang opinion piece. I would have emailed him directly but I just couldn't get past the salutation, Dear Mr. Lord, without my mind wandering. Keep up the good work.
-- K. Wigen

DUDSVILLE
Re: Jackie Mason & Raoul Felder's Expedience and Experience:

Indeed, how did we end up with these two duds, as Messrs. Mason and Felder posit?

In 1776 the population of the colonies was about three million out of which pool rose George Washington, John Adams, Sam Adams, Ben Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Paul Revere, Thomas Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, et al.

Two centuries later, the population of the U.S. is 100 times larger, and out crawl "these two duds." Painful to contemplate, no?

And the Democrats cast aside Joe Biden and Chris Dodd to get to where we are today.

Does "President McCain" sound likely?
-- Dick Crawford

Whatever Rev. Wright meant, the fundamental reality is that it is a conversation killer. Once any clergyman says "God d*mn America," 95% of Americans will head for the door. We can disagree whether they should or shouldn't; but no matter what or by how much Americans think American should change, they will not stand for the country they love to be cursed.

"God d*mn America" is so repulsive and pungent that it overpowers and blows anything else that may be said off the table. That's the reality and that's the end of it.
-- Michael Dooley
Indianapolis, Indiana

As usual Jackie and Raoul do not waste any words while stating the obvious so much better than most. How did we indeed end up with these two "duds" competing for the nomination of one of our major parties? How indeed although to be truthful or factual the other contenders (Dodd, Edwards, Richardson etc)were certainly no better. It has been way too long since the Democrats had worthy even if often wrong candidates competing in the arena of ideas. It seems to me that Scoop Jackson was the last Democratic Party candidate that the voters could really respect. That is an awfully long time ago in this generation of instant gratification. I try not to be pessimistic for too long a time but William Kristol's father Irving was no doubt correct when he wrote in the WSJ in the seventies that the culture war was over and we had lost. At the time as the father of two young sons I struggled to disagree with him but in retrospect he was more right than wrong. Mr. Kristol also in a regrettably neglected book Two Cheers for Capitalism wrote that corporate officers did not deserve the monstrous salary and bonus packages they were being paid because they were not risk takers or entrepreneurs but really just talented employees or bureaucrats who should be paid good salaries but not more. Viewing this idea today it seems obvious.
-- Jack Wheatley
Royal Oak, Michigan

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