Comments on: A note to would-be comment trolls

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:42:25 +0000

And as one of the “liberals” that comments here, I appreciate your even handedness and keeping the trolls at bay.

By: Michael Lonie

Michael Lonie — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 23:59:22 +0000

Alex,
You sound like Ronald Reagan. His comment on the Democratic Party was that he hadn’t left it, it had left him.

The last Democrat I could bring myself to vote for was Scoop Jackson. My parents, lifelong Dems up to that point, were driven out of the Party by the arrogant schmucks who took it over in 1972.

By: Pamela

Pamela — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 22:30:58 +0000

To bad you don’t have banned smilie for those lacking wit and common sense

By: corwin

corwin — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 20:34:42 +0000

As am I ,Meryl.And I’m not a Zionist.I happen to agree witjh most of your statements on Israel,so i guess that makes me a neo-con though.

By: Alex Bensky

Alex Bensky — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 16:08:36 +0000

I used to be a Democrat, Meryl, and not just nominally. Not only was I a paid-up member, I was on the county committee, elected precinct delegate, ran for office, chairman of a state platform subcommittee, ran a couple of county-wide get out the vote campaigns.

The last time I identified with the party was when I called myself a member of the Joe Lieberman wing of the party. So much for that. I’ll probably be voting almost straight Democratic on the state level, and where I won’t, such as the state university boards, I’ll probably just vote Libertariian or something.

The party in which I grew up had room for people like Hubert Humphrey, Scoop Jackson, and George Meany. This one doesn’t. I don’t feel the least bit disloyal; it’s a different outfit with the same name.