But if the choice is a cool president and 8 or 10 percent unemployment in a declining economy and a country that seems to be going in the wrong direction and structural unemployment for young people at 50 percent, I'd rather have a dorky president who fixed those problems.

It reached #1 on the New York Times Best Seller list of hardcover nonfiction in its seventh week on the list. The Los Angeles Times added Goldberg to its editorial lineup in 2005.

Goldberg is known for his contributions on politics and culture to National Review Online of which he is editor-at-large. From 2006 to 2010 he was a frequent participant on bloggingheads. He is the author of Liberal Fascism (2008) which reached #1 on the New York Times Best Seller list.