"There are plenty of people on the left who think America is the problem, that America is eeeevil, that America is the new fascist police state. I've beaten them over the head with a rhetorical club on this blog for almost two years now. They are the most irritating people in the entire country, in part because plenty of them live in my neighborhood and I have to put up with their bullshit on a regular basis. I've also taken aim at mainstream liberals who refuse to call them out on the carpet. I expect a blowhard like Rush Limbaugh to make no distinction between a mainstream Democrat and a radical wingnut, but no one, and I mean no one, who is a Democrat himself has any excuse for not getting this right. If ‘the leaders of the Democratic Party’ were as Zell Miller described them, Ralph Nader would be out of a job and Noam Chomsky would be a senator instead of a crank on the margins at Z Magazine."-Michael Totten, in response to the Miller speech. Yes, my neighborhood too.
Then Mike Silverman, in the comments:
“I just wish the GOP could do away with the religious-right. They alone will probably keep me from voting GOP this November. It's like I want to buy the Republican car because of its powerful engine and great design, but I'd have to get used to the upside-down nails covering the driver's seat.”Exactly. If the religious right didn’t exist, or if it broke off and started its own party, I might feel better about voting for Republicans. But not until then. Posted by Stephen Silver at September 7, 2004 10:52 PM