My wife thinks he's scary. I like him. He exposes knee-jerk and fair weather conservatives when he calls them on sloppy rhetoric. He never ever lets anybody get away with calling him unpatriotic and reduces to liquid anybody who tries. It was especially endearing when, throughout September and October, he had very little disagreement with Hannity or conservative guests on 9/11 issues - and often nailed knee-jerk liberals to the wall when they tried to use 9/11 for political gain. Alan Colmes reminds me of my youth, when I believed the democrats were the good guys. Of course, I say all of this knowing that he defends the Clintons. Yuck.