From another reader:

Jonah,
Your reader makes a good point, and I’ll just add the obvious. I did Bush rants roughly once or twice a week until the 2002 elections. At that point I decided it was time to shut up. It’s a choice: do we want true-blue conservatives like ourselves to get the message out, but with Dems holding the reigns in Washington, or do we want to hold the reigns at the cost of the message. I guess I like the latter. Canadian conservatives like the former.