Fromn a reader:

I dunno, Jonah. I heard everybody complain about the State of the Union speech, trying to cover too much, what are steroids doing I there, etc. etc. etc. Yet each person who complained had praise for a different portion of the speech. Howard Fineman (Did I get the name right) thought the steroid bit was great–a very necessary message for kids. If you put together all the parts that individuals liked, you had a whole speech.
My eldest son, older than you are and should know better, just sent me a “Things you have to believe to be a Republican today” Michael Moore kind of silly rant attempting to prove that all Republicans have committed the vilest of sins, that of being hypocrites. So tiresome. But then I find the Republicans who insist that they will sit on their hands and not vote in this election to teach Bush a lesson pretty tiresome too.
The most basic conservative belief is that man is not perfect, and you can’t make him perfect no matter how many well-intentioned laws you pass.