To Anti-Elitist,

You make the idle accusation that McCain’s staff spent three days coaching an otherwise unprepared but malleable Palin to deliver a speech of surpassing depth, humor, detail, structure, and stylistic consistency.

This is patently absurd. If the McCain team could so magically conjure this sort of confidence and authenticity in someone who did not have it already, they’ve already won the election, and we can all go home.

There are some frequent posters in Belmont comment streams whose remarks might be given a little more consideration if they took the time to self-edit. Consider whether your rambling stories and provocative assertions will persuade readers without providing citations, references or links. Consider whether your casual use of cutesy nicknames will even be intelligible to other readers. Try having someone other than your mom read your posts first, to make sure they make sense.