I'm sorry I did not get to this earlier, and there's way too much to riff on in just this single post, but please, please do yourself a favor and read National Review's Valentine's Day Symposium. Midge Decter swooning for Rudy! Andrew Breitbart sharing his "unrequited" love for lesbian Tammy Bruce! Mona Charen shows off by hearting some nineteenth-century Republican pol named Thomas Brackett Reed! But by far the best is Kathryn Jean-Lopez's tribute to B-1 Bob Dornan, who ranks next to Jim Traficant as the most amusing member in the history of the House of Representatives. She recalls the "occasional fiery congressman from Orange County" calling her "sweetheart" on her way from the Capitol to the Heritage Foundation. It was an age, K-Lo recalls, "when B-1 could say such a thing without worrying Gloria Allred would be waiting for him back at his office." Well, Bob certainly got away with a lot back in those days, whether it was fist-fighting a fellow member, calling a Soviet journalist a "disloyal, betraying little Jew," or harping on "lesbian spearchuckers". Minnesota Senate candidate and erstwhile comedian Al Franken once remarked at a White House Correspondents Dinner that "having Al D'Amato leading an ethics investigation is like getting Bob Dornan to head up a mental health task force." In 1994, Dornan's choice quotations were compiled into a book with the appropriate title, "Shut up, FAG!" Yes, he actually said that. Update: Oops! A commenter points out that the last quote was uttered by B-1 Bob's lovely wife. I regret the error. But here's an even better pearl of wisdom from Dornan: "Don't use the word gay unless it's an acronym for