Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Since we are repeating ourselves, let me just say fuck that.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

Consistently wrong since 2002

I am pretty sure these ‘journalists’ were not always such a bootlicking sycophants.

This really is a full service blog.

It’s pointless to bring up problems that can only be solved with a time machine.

Mediocre white men think RFK Jr’s pathetic midlife crisis is inspirational. The bar is set so low for them, it’s subterranean.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

The rest of the comments were smacking Boebert like she was a piñata.

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

Republicans don’t lie to be believed, they lie to be repeated.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

Relentless negativity is not a sign that you are more realistic.

Text STOP to opt out of updates on war plans.

Of course you can have champagne before noon. That’s why orange juice was invented.

Second rate reporter says what?

So many bastards, so little time.

Dumb motherfuckers cannot understand a consequence that most 4 year olds have fully sorted out.

You know it’s bad when the Project 2025 people have to create training videos on “How To Be Normal”.

This fight is for everything.

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

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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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