ConservativeHome has dropped to number four in this list and I am slightly at a loss to know why. It has had an excellent, if overdue, redesign and although it went through a rough patch earlier in the year it is back to its fighting best. Conservatives vigorously opposed every proposal to expand government investigative and surveillance power on the ground that such powers posed intolerable threats to our liberties. Conservatites wouldn't have purchased these dolls anyway. They do nothing to teach their daughters to be good stepford wives.

Conservative posters are welcomed at DK, as long as they don't indulge in extreme personal attacks. Contrast this to the average lifespan of a liberal poster's account at, say, the Free Republic, which can be measured in seconds as soon as he or she says something remotely challenging to conservative dogma.

Presidential politics, however, has always been about more than simply winning elections: of all the candidates running this time on either side, Buchanan has the most potential to change our politics. His campaign is testing the viability of hard-right-wing populism, which, given the unchecked erosion of middle-class wages and living standards, may be the shape of politics to come. President Bush has appointed prominent neo-conservatives and religious right leaders to important posts in the White House and in the Defense and Justice Departments.

Congress will have no access to this money at any time. Congress, concerned over the parapolitics scandal, has held up the passage of a free trade agreement with Colombia that was signed in 2006. Legislators want the Colombia government to make more progress on prosecuting paramilitary commanders and curbing labor abuses.

Anyone who questions our strategy in Iraq is basically an Al Qaeda public relations man? And the mainstream media is nothing but a machine that spews defeatist lies? Anyone who listens to Rush knows that he makes his own mind up, that he panders to no faction, and that he stands up to any critics. This is hardly the stuff of secret groups plotting the destruction of an amoral politician from Arkansas.

Bush dubbed him a "matinee idol". Bush, split evenly between adulatory accounts of him saluting wounded soldiers or witnessing to a wayward teenager, and accounts of real and invented malapropisms. In contrast, every single one of the twenty-two e-mails about John Kerry is negative.) For conservatives, these e-mails neatly reinforce preconceptions, bending the facts of the world in line with their ideological framework: liberals, immigrants, hippies and celebrities are always the enemy; soldiers and conservatives, the besieged heroes.

Rather than employing the ?patented Bush-Rove tactic of using abortion and gay rights to hoodwink low-?income Christians into supporting patrician, pro-corporate policies, Huckabee is a bigger-government Republican who emphasizes prison reform and poverty relief. In the world of GOP politics, he represents something entirely new — a cross between John Edwards and Jerry Falwell, an ordained Southern Baptist preacher who actually seems to give a shit about the working poor. Rather also maintains that he was subsequently marginalized in his new full-time job at "60 Minutes," robbed of airtime and shortchanged on staffing. And although he was found largely blameless, Rather contends that a CBS-commissioned probe of the story was "biased," asserting in the suit that the investigation reached "conclusions that were preordained to find fault with the broadcast and those persons responsible for it.".