Not only do I support "Anyone But Obama," I do so with enthusiasm! Is Romney my candidate in the primaries? Not a chance. But I'm a grownup, and I've worked politics for a good part of my adult life. You don't always get what you want, so you make do. "Stop digging" is a better result than four more years of Obama. Our duty as citizens is to do what we can for the good of the country. Since the re-election of Obama could destroy everything we love about America, our duty is to stop him . . . period!!

I don't give her views any "benefit of the doubt," James. And I appreciate the way you presented your own. But people who see some things differently than I do are not a threat to me, and I think we are all too quick to turn disagreement into vicious battles. I have followed Ms. Chavez through many years. She is not as conservative as I am, and I often disagree with her, but I don't expect every Republican to feel exactly as I do on every subject. That kind of thinking is a political loser.

I don't agree with anything Ms. Chavez has said. A little extra paperwork is fine with me if it will stem the tide of illegal immigrants -- and since I believe that birthright citizenship in these circumstances is not compatible with the intent of the 14th Amendment, those babies are illegal to me. But I also don't agree with the personal attacks on Ms. Chavez. She has a different point of view . . . get over it!

I disagree consistently with Justice Ginsberg on the law, and I certainly think her remarks on foreign (and hostile) soil were injudicious, at best. But I think I understand what she was saying and why. Democracy, generally, and American constitutionalism, in particular, require a cultural foundation that simply doesn't exist everywhere -- it should, ideally, but it doesn't. People who have been ruled for hundreds, if not thousands, of years through one form of tyranny or another are not going to rapidly adapt to real liberty. Justice Ginsberg appears to have politely said to Egypt, "You're not ready for American constitutionalism," and she was undoubtedly correct.

You may be a conservative, but helping Obama win re-election is not American. No one can guarantee us the candidate we prefer (and Gingrich is mine), but there is still a choice. Choosing to stay home rather than vote for a less-than-perfect, but demonstrably BETTER candidate, is not the patriotic thing to do in an election year with, quite possibly, the fate of the nation as we know it on the line.

This is nuts! And I'm amazed that it comes from an attorney -- and a conservative one, at that. I know that Ms. Coulter isn't stupid, so I can only assume that she is being deliberately obtuse in order to provoke OR in order to defend the indefensible for her man! Surely, she recognizes the difference between a state's saying that if you CHOOSE to enter into certain transactions (marriage, driving, buying property, etc.), you may do so only under the rules . . . and a government (state or federal) MANDATING that you enter into a transaction. When liberty is lost, it doesn't much matter which level of government stripped it from you.

Not to mention that many of those "conservative purists" just stayed at home on election day. Lack of enthusiasm for a candidate is a killer. I'm not a Romney supporter in the primaries, but I guarantee that I'll be carrying his banner high if he wins the nomination. "Anybody but Romney" is cute. "Anybody but Obama" is SURVIVAL!!!

I think some women who are "abandoning" Cain are women who don't want this garbage to continue through the 2012 elections. Sad though it may be if Mr. Cain is innocent of these accusations, we have an election to win. At this juncture NOTHING trumps dumping Obama in 2012. The nation depends on it.

Does anyone in the eastern media actually know what a hunting "lease" entails? It isn't ownership or long term use or management and control. It is basically permission to wander around on some defined acreage for a couple of weeks, total, out of the year and shoot at whatever wild game may be in season. This entire issue is ridiculous.

How about we stick to the subject at hand, without the mindless namecalling -- specifically, 82% of "adults" disapprove of the job Congress is doing. That is the most meaningless poll ever devised. Let's face facts. In the first place, "adults" who don't bother to vote are an oxymoron. Who cares what they think? In the second place, "congress" is a generic. It means that persons who are unhappy that their government handouts are endangered are voting on the same side as those who are unhappy that government handouts have bankrupted our great nation. 82% sounds about right. I'm a lot more worried about the 18% who are so stupid that they have no opinion at all or who believe that ANY deal is better than no deal.