Wow

That liberal line post below elicited a stunning array of really nasty email, next to none of it substantive. If it makes people feel more comfortable, call it “the Kennedy line” since I believe Ted Kennedy holds all of those positions at once. Though I hardly think it’s wildly unfair to call the Kennedy position the “liberal” position, even if many liberals surely have different views. To give you a sense of the intellectual tenor of what I’m talking about, here’s one of the more high-minded and substantive emails I received:

Re: The liberal line:

kind of like: we don’t need a dept. of homeland security, but now we do. We

can’t go around nation-building, except in Iraq and Afgahnistan, where we

need to. We don’t need a September 11 commission, but now we do. Same-sex

marriage will destroy marriage, but I’ll just talk about it before elections

and never do anything about it after them. And Clinton was bad for not doing

anything about high gas prices, but I won’t.

Got it?

Tool.