I’ve lurked around here for a long time, Charles, but… 2009? What makes that the cutoff? I would have guessed a year before that or more. Particularly I have the vague memory of you voting Obama in 2008, though I admit I didn’t go back to look it up before posting here.

There’s some value in keeping the transition period. It’s interesting to go back in the Balloon Juice archives and watch Cole’s conversion around the Schiavo mess, but OTOH I can imagine the sort of hostile linking you’re talking about.