One more thing about Slate: I admire the pluck of the handful of Bush supporters working there. One of them is an intern! And I understand his situation perfectly. When I first came to Washington, D.C., it was to work at The New Republic. My immediate boss was Fred Barnes, but others on the staff included future Slatesters Jacob Weisberg, Michael Kinsely, and Mickey Kaus. We had an editorial meeting right before the 1992 election and TNR’s owner Marty Peretz was visiting. He asked if anybody in the room was voting for Bush. I think there were three of us: me, Fred, and a guy on the business staff. It sure felt lonely. But TNR was a great place to work–I liked just about everybody there, and it helped reinforce my conservatism because I had to defend it on a daily basis.