What follows are the chronological exchange of e-mails written at the end of my participation HBO's documentary series “Candidate 2012”.

As the only Green Party candidate on the Pro-Hemp/Anti-War platform, my only real surprise was that I had made it to the "Top 12" in the first place. I was not surprised that HBO scrapped the show soon after they realized it wasn’t about Hookers.

One of the people who did move on to the "Top 4" was Pepper Bryars, a spokesman for conservative Alabama Gov. Bob Riley.

As you read the responses by Mr. Bryars, a typical young Republican, you might want to compare them to President Bush's first response to any question: Play Dumb, and Attack the Questioner.

As these messages show, the immaturity and fear that guides the actions of the people "who run this country" are just as prevalent in the minds of wannabe TV politicians as they are in the minds of real "elected" politicians. Facts are few and far between, but fear and paranoid derision from the under-informed fills the airwaves like napalm in the morning.

Whether these people actually believe what they say, or are simply protecting their jobs and establishing an alibi, is for future congressional investigations to decide. But, in the mean time, the following letters are an interesting portrait of a neo-conservative mouthpiece (and unfulfilled artist) who once told me all he really wanted to do was “write novels.”

If only somebody had said, “Hey Hitler. Nice painting.”