Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

I didn’t have alien invasion on my 2023 BINGO card.

They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.

There is no compromise when it comes to body autonomy. You either have it or you don’t.

An unpunished coup is a training exercise.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

Today’s GOP: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

Cole is on a roll !

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

People are complicated. Love is not.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

American History and Black History Cannot Be Separated

“woke” is the new caravan.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires Republicans to act in good faith.

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

Their freedom requires your slavery.

It’s a doggy dog world.

Prediction: the GOP will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

This really is a full service blog.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

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  1. 1.

    Brian Linse

    The only reason you might no longer fit is because you are too reasonable and independent of blind ideolgical constraints. You are SO conservative – a REAL conservative – and I mean that as a compliment. Really, I do.

    The Juice is the only conservative blog I read every day, and I don’t see us as agreeing on fundamentals any more today than a year ago. I don’t think you and BJ have changed, it’s the rest of the increasingly desperate “conservative” blogosphere that has changed.

  2. 2.

    ppGaz

    As always, my vote is completely for sale to the highest, or first, bidder, or to the the only bidder if that is the case.

    Operators are on duty to take your call and begin negotiations. Please stay on the line, your call is important to me.

  5. 5.

    The Disenfranchised Voter

    Posted from the site…

    Rules:

    * Polls close December 15, 2005.

    * You may vote once every 24 hours in each poll.

    * After voting in an individual poll you will be locked out from voting again in that poll (on the computer you voted from) for 24 hours.

    * Each poll has it’s own separate 24 hour lockout control. Voting in, for example, Best Blog will not lock you out of voting in other categories.

  6. 6.

    DougJ

    I voted for Little Green Footballs in all categories. No one else really even approaches what they do over there.

  7. 7.

    skip

    I disagree with John on many things, but not on the quality of his blog. It fact, just being in the top 250 is an insult to the admirable collection of delta-minus defectives who happily infest this place. Screw ’em, I say.

  8. 8.

    Steve S

    It’s not clear to me by what process blogs were nominated here. I refuse to vote in a rigged election.

  9. 9.

    Ancient Purple

    Voted for you, John. Good luck on that.

    I think B-J is a great blog which is why I spend time here.

    If you win, are you hosting the first annual Balloon Juice cocktail party and social???

    I mean, I would even stoop to setting foot in West Virginia for that. :o)

  10. 10.

    Krista

    We were up for best Conservative Blog (a category we no longer really fit), but now seem to be un-nominated.

    What the hell?!? What’d they do that for?

  12. 12.

    Joey

    This is far and away the best conservative blog on the web. I find myself disagreeing with John on about 35-50% of his articles/points, but I almost always see where he is coming from. This is not only the best conservative blog, it’s one of the best period. Along with John Roger’s Kung Fu Monkey.

  14. 14.

    Mona

    I appreciate Balloon Juice because it was an island of sanity when all around me those with whom I usually otherwise agree became quite deranged, believing that a woman with virtually no cerebral cortex was speaking, and formulating and expressing a desire to live, in the face of a judiciary that was fiendishly plotting with others to murder her. There were a few other non-lefty voices of reason, but not enough.

    And I also have little patience for the whole ID scam. To quote Derb: It. Is. Not. Science. I like the right-of-center sites that insist on that reality, and there are a good number of those, including this one.

  15. 15.

    Kevin

    I wont even try to explain the process of whittling down 3000 or so nominations into 500ish finalist while limiting each to appearing in just one category. Suffice it to say where you are nominated is not always where you end up – assuming you even make the finalist list. You don’t see Kos or Atrios in Best Liberal Blog do you? They were nominated there (as I recall), but got moved.

  16. 16.

    John Cole

    KEvin-

    That is why I said I am not suggesting perfidy. Just we were there once, ain’t now, and it is no big deal. And I am too lazy to try to figure out why.

    Don’t worry about it. I sure am not.

  17. 17.

    DougJ

    Truthfully, this is the best blog in many ways. It is certainly the blog where the blogger interacts with the commenters the most. For that, I salute you, Juan Cole.

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