Your opinion of the following people...

[Sam Spade]

Rep. Tom Delay - 3 (very intelligent, but corrupt)
Pat Buchanan - 8 (still one of the best political commentators out there)
Sean Hannity - 2 (talk radio hack)
Joe Scarborough - 6 (good interviewer, pretty smart guy too)

Rep. Mel Watt - 4 (I have nothing against him personally, though his views are so opposite of mine.  Sort of like Elijah Cummings for me as well).
James Carville - 6 (good political strategist, a little partisan, but sensible; that Louisiana twang sort of gets to even me after a while)
Ed Schultz - 2 (read Hannity)
Jon Stewart - 2 (not funny (I don't give a damn what y'all say); others on his show are, however.  He gets flustered when anyone even tries to challenge his worldview.  I actually do know one of his executive producers (not saying which), that guy's a nice guy actually (wife's a bitch).)

[Sam Spade]

Rep. Tom Delay: -5
Pat Buchanan: -5
Sean Hannity: -5
Joe Scarborough: -3

Rep. Mel Watt: abstain (never heard of him)
James Carville: 2
Ed Schultz: abstain (same reason as above)
Jon Stewart: 7

Why all the hate for Pat?

Many people on this site are too blindly partisan (like most Americans, unfortunately) that they don't recognize what Pat's saying because it's a viewpoint that's long since lost adherence among the major parties.

The Democrats haven't used it since the 1920s, the Republicans since the 1980s, at least.

It's currently really out of fashion.

He did have a little bit of the anti-Semite problem at certain points in his life, that's the reason why I knocked him down about 2 points. 

Otherwise, he's one of the best political commentators out there, still.  Makes most of the other TV and radio people on this list look like idiots.