In response to some emailers, let me be clear: I don’t think Long is anything like a rightwinger going by how we define such things today or for the last fifty years. My point was that I was shocked that A) the Times blithely called Long a rightwinger and B) I was surprised that Rick (who knows much more about such things than lil’ ol me) would so casually and/or approvingly pass-on the characterization.