[mburbank]

Um, let me see now, If I tell you I'd vote for an alternative to anyone who voted for the patriot act renewal, does that make it a blacklist? 'Cause I had this stupid idea that voting for the renewal was a shameful act that in no way represented what I want done, and that I like it if my the representatives I vote for... represent me.

You guys are both right. I sincerely wish I lived in connecticut so I could have voted for a candidate who'm I don't like and who endorses a war I don't believe in. How could I ever have let the left wing blogosphere convince me otherwise?

Kevin, obviously the reason Lieberman got such negative attention is because he's Jewish. What else separates him from the other folks? We ought to pass some sort of law that says you can't vote for anything the all powerful leftist blogosphere says, even if you'd have voted that way anyway.

Would I vote for Hillary? Hypothetically, who is she running against? If she ran against Frist, I'd hold my nose and vote for her. I cannot see any circumstances that would make me enthusiastic about her, but what do you want from me? I'm pretty sure I won't be allowed to personally choose the candidate.

A lot of voters are against the war. A lot changed their minds, and some, like me, we're against it before it started. Some polls suggest more than half the people in the country think the war was a mistake. I think it's an endless quagmire. No one hypnotized me any more than you've been hypnotized, Kev. Staggeringly, it is possible to disagree with you and not be hypnotized or an idiot. I know that seems flatly impossible, but under distinct and admittedly very rare circumstances, it can happen.