As people get older, you see, there ears tend to attenuate higher frequencies….

We were carefree careless before 9-11, but after? What’s the excuse for that?

_ _ _ _ You Barnes, You insulting, arrogant piece of crap. Why don’t you climb down off your Shetland Pony and work for a living like the rest of us small-minded, ungenerous and nasty average Americans. Jerk.

Next to do … fire off a email Barnes and thank him for solidifying my stance against shamnesty even more.

Nope, nobody obsessed with immigration, or small-minded and nasty here.

No siree.

Texas Nick 77 on August 22, 2007 at 6:01 AM

I would however have chosen “Danger Will Robinson” but otherwise you got it exactly right.

To quote the robot on “Lost in Space,” it does not compute.

The difference between Stupidity and Genius is that Genius has its limits.
- Murphy

MB4 on August 21, 2007 at 7:19 PM

Well said.

Let us not, as Republicans, lose sight of the objective. That being winning the next election. If we let issues divide us, no matter what position held by a Republican I disagree with is as bad as that of the Democratic opposition. No matter of the candidates wins the primary, outside of Ron Paul, they are much preferred to the potential disaster that would be another Clinton administration.

Zelsdorf Ragshaft on August 21, 2007 at 7:34 PM

I couldn’t agree more. We need to maintain our civility towards each other, and regardless of who is our nominee (R.P. has not a chance), support him and remember to vote for him in the only poll that counts.

Republicans simply need to master the skill that Democrats have of holding multiple contradictory positions simultaneously.

pedestrian on August 21, 2007 at 6:37 PM

that’s not a skill, it’s a resource called the leftist press–which has their back on such matters

At least I can believe what he’s writing these days, since I knew that he was an open borders guy, regardless of what he wrote the last few months. I think he’s full of crap in this matter, but at least he’s being honest now.

fred5678 on August 21, 2007 at 9:50 PM

He’s completely out of touch. What happened to the amnesty bill should have been a major wake up call to him and people like him. It should have made him curious and spurred a road trip to see first hand why people were so fired up. Instead, he simply continues on. Fred is that party’s past, not its future and this proves it.

In a town of 70,000, there are an estimated 5,000 to 20,000 illegal aliens.

http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070816/NEWS/708160377

“I’m relieved,” Lawson said. “Lakewood has a large number of undocumented residents . . . and now you’re going to have a group in the center of town speaking out against illegal aliens. So it’s possible there’d be friction between the two factions that could lead to confrontation.”

So instead of protecting voting American citizens exercising free speech, the town submits to illegal criminal gangs. Wonderful.

Fred – GET OUT OF THE OFFICE! This is THE defining issue!!

(fred5678 is NO relation!)

If there’s rhetoric to be toned down, and there is, it’s on the part of Beltway denizens like Fred Barnes who can’t see past their own opinions to the anarchic reality that they create and foster.

Well done again Bryan.

Secure the border, and then we can talk about the illegals.

But, please, for the love of Pete, quit calling it “immigration” reform. Sneaking into another country and stealing someone’s identity is not “immigrating”. It’s just stealing.

Mojave Mark on August 21, 2007 at 8:01 PM

Hey, Mark. The Hitlery stupidity is getting old.

Heather Macdonald (I think) had an oiustanding response to this and to Geraldo today on Laura Ingraham’s show. My be worth adding as an update if you can get it.

There’s no confusion as to which way the Conservative road map points to, it’s just that Barnes isn’t able to let go of the proven loser neocon meme.

We now know that half a Conservative is no Conservative at all.

A Republican that tries to please the unpleasable is wasting our time, wasting our money and wasting our country.

People like Barnes need to understand that if you want to be the American president, you’ve got to be concerned about America.

All others prevented from sneaking in would just be the sad consequences of terrorism’s threat, and not our problem.

All of the incovenienced “newcomers” could bitch to Bin Laden.

Also, I meant murderers other than OJ.

MikeZero on August 21, 2007 at 7:47 PM

Hugh Hewitt made some remark one day a couple of years back about the “clowns down the dial.” That’s not a direct quote, but it’s pretty close to what he said about John and Ken.

KFI hosts were harbingers of this now hot potato issue. Other than murderers, Gary Condit and

And Raymond(Rain Man) Babbitt was an “Excellent driver”.

But neither Fred or Raymond are wearing any underwear…. They definitely are not wearing any underwear.

Uh Oh, Three minutes to Wapner

Eff you, Barnes. Come drive around south Phoenix for a half hour and witness the species we’re so obsessed about. For anyone who hasn’t seen it with their own eyes, it’s unbelievable. What a prissy, little jerk…