The Quez's BEST PERSON IN THE UNIVERSE: CLOSE-UP EDITION

LEE DOREN (aka. The Conservative Guy)

For those of us who went to Close Up, we were treated to a week in the heart of our nation's capital. For those of you who have never been to D.C., it's really an incredible place. It's a place full of exhaustive rhetoric, self-gratifying political agendas, and a largely unfavorable male to female ratio. In a way it's like we never left Belen.

One of the more interesting activities we participated in was a debate between a liberal and a conservative. This was a real treat for those of us who are interested in politics. In the unfortunately civil political climate that includes 3 major 24 hour news networks and countless pundits with big mouths and nice hair, we rarely get to see two partisan ideologues duke it out for our entertainment. But this is D.C., where the only thing more available than food stamps is partisan hackery.

And so we sat audience to a war of words. The debate ranged many different topics from affirmative action to environmental issues. And the longer the debate went on one thing became abundantly clear, the conservative (Lee Doren) was laying the smackdown on the liberal's candy ass. It was like watching Scorpion from Mortal Kombat take on Justin Bieber.  Not only was he beating down progressivism intellectually, he did it without famous pundit tactics such as Glenn Beck's theatrical meltdown, Bill O'Reilly's patented shout down, or Keith Olbermann's stupid bull shit. He proved that one can verbally destroy an opponent without stooping to the level of a four year old. For that reason Lee Doren is theis week's BEST PERSON IN THE UNIVERSE