Rather than waste thought or effort on his vile life, I've chosen to give the proper level of respect for this particular departed sod: I've scavenged wantonly a couple dozen remarks from elsewhere around the blogosphere:

• "... gave wit a bad name."

• "Vidal nailed it...  he wasn't anything more than a tin-plated crypto-nazi.  He almost had a stroke when Vidal nailed him with that one. The truth hurts."
  
• "he was the purveyor of a despicable morally bankrupt and pragmatically ridiculous political ideology that was pretty much guaranteed to lead us into exactly the kind of superdupermegaclusterfuck we are now experiencing."
  
• "We are richer for having lost him. (hat tip to The Simpsons' Patti & Selma)"

Enough?  Hell, we're just getting started...