Yes, all those folks you named are exactly the ones conservatives want us to trust. Conservatives reject the idea that expertise has any place in government. This is exactly the sort of right-wing populism that has been brewing on the Right for a while, and it's finally going to show us what it can do. I can hardly wait. "Right wing theocratic police state?" Sure. President Palin will see to that.

The stalk-off by Goldberg and Behar was about as mature as 4th graders at recess threatening to hold their breaths until they turn blue. Disgusting. Although not nearly as disgusting as Islamic totalitarianism.

So, Mr. Paladino and Mr. Jeffrey, let's see what kind of stand-up conservatives you really are. I think any real conservative should be willing to pledge that, if he is elected to public office, he will commit his office and his personal resources to the elimination of homosexuality by any means necessary. Now I know that none of these brave conservatives will man up enough to take this position. And, if everything they say about homosexuality is correct, they really should.

That's easy: Sarah Palin. Palin can persuade voters that she is both a social and a fiscal conservative. She could be the ideal Republican candidate in 2012. The Tea Party movement shows the popularity of fiscal conservatism, and it wouldn't take much for the movement to ramp up a huge presence on social conservative issues. Palin, in turn, could ride the crest of this wave better than any other possible Republican political figure.

Jefferson was about as much a Christian as Richard Dawkins. Has no one who reads TH ever heard of the "Jefferson Bible?" Jefferson translated the four gospels of the New Testament from Greek into English, leaving out all the miracles of Jesus. He thought of Jesus as a great moral teacher, which was a common view among 18th century Enlightenment intellectuals. No Christian can regard Jesus simply as a great moral teacher. As C.S. Lewis put it, that option is not open to us.

I want to welcome Diana West to the Left. Like several other TH columnists in the last couple of years, she has slip-slid to our side. No real conservative could have written a column like this one. A conservative should side with the military against Obama. After all, waging war against America's enemies is job one. If Obama cannot be our war leader, then generals need to step up and take responsibility--or so, I contend, any real conservative should think. So, welcome Ms. West. I'll teach you the secret Liberal handshake and give you the access code to the Liberal Conspiracy mainframe so we can send you your daily infofeed. A good start today. Keep it up.

Any university that would give emeritus status to Ayers is morally compromised to an appalling degree.

I'd like to welcome Greenberg to the Left; with this column he's become one of us. His criticism of Buchanan's epochal 1992 speech that gave a label to the most important political conflict in this country in our time could not be the product of a genuine conservative. Buchanan made perfectly cler that, for real conservatives, homosexuals and liberals were indeed enemies of the Republic. Fortunately for the Right, most conservatives think Buchanan got it right in 1992, and have continued to wage the 'culture wars' ever since. Buchanan's speech was a statement of conservative principles that should inspire conservatives for generations to come. Too bad writers like Greenberg didn't get it.

I'm a liberal Massachusetts Democrat and I think Obama's presidency is a failure of massive proportions. He campaigned as a pragmatic bargainer, who would be able to reach across the aisle and work with Republicans. I wanted a liberal, but that's not really what Obama is--instead his demonstrated inability to govern shows him to be simply incompetent. He will rightly be compared with Carter. Obama's arrogance is shown in dozens of ways, small and large. I'm amazed he got elected to any office at any level. He is also something no president, regardless of ideology can ever afford to be--afraid to use American power to protect America. I'm an old-fashioned Cold War liberal, proud of the fact that liberals of that earlier time could work...

I suspect that few TH followers will really believe this column. Hatred of Muslims is too deeply ingrained in the Right and cultivated by conservative ideologues to be dispelled by such a calm, factual presentation. Of course, Mr. Chapman is a libertarian, and not really much of a conservative at all. When it comes to questions of tolerance, Chapman might as well be a liberal. Another way to state his main point is this: the many moderate, non-violent Muslims in America are indeed becoming assimilated--and thereby are becoming less and less distinctly Muslim. They are becoming lukewarm, even 'liberal,' Muslims, and have drifted very far from the militant truths of their faith. Clearly there aren't lots of American Muslims suicide...