No, actually, I don’t think that’s a fair assessment. Reader e-mails to me jump from “Damn Yankee — why are you such a Rudy flack?” to “get off your men-in-uniform hangup” if I say something positive about McCain, to “everyone knows you’re Romney’s wife” if I’m defending the governor, to “stop being such a Fred cheerleader.” Sometimes I get all of those on the same day.

There is variety in “The Corner,” not just in the print magazine, and not just on NRO’s homepage — Derbyshire and Schiffren have Paul tendencies. (And, heck, Rich and I have been accused of wanting Hillary to win.)

Who would be NR/NRO’s candidate if the election were held today? I have no bloody clue. We have meetings to argue this point. Sometimes people’s positions on specific candidates change from week to week. Sometimes they’re steady. We try to be straight shooters here — and when some among us have surrendered some objectivity and lent our names to campaigns, that becomes a conversation point, too (see “Frum’s Diary.”)

One of the funny things about “The Corner” is one morning when half the gang is asleep, or some afternoon when half are out to lunch, anyone in the world with a computer can log on and decide from a few posts half the editors haven’t read what NR’s corporate position is on something. I’m fond of the description of “The Corner” as conservatism’s watercooler. We react in realtime, we have debates. Some days we’re tired or in bad moods and do none of the above. Sometimes we do too much. Sometimes someone wants to cause trouble. Somedays someone is the libertarian. Sometimes someone is the contrarian. Somedays there are tangents. And that’s the fun — and usefulness of it.

But just because someone said something positive about opera this morning does not mean NR hates rock and roll (to the contrary). And just because I write Lynne Cheney should run for president doesn’t make it so, or make it corporate opinion.