Dumb things said by college professors, gay rights parades that offend "ordinary" people, tooth-and-nail opposition to having the local wingnut Judge make a Sophie's Choice for me and my wife?
Screw the center. Most of the examples have little to do with Democrats, and the ones that do - bring it on. I agree that the stupid-things-said-in-Baghdad was stupid, but it was nothing more than that. The reporter baited him and he took the bait. It's not as if it had any impact, it just looks stupid. I wish that Tom DeLay's comments sympathizing with poor Slobo and his plight got half the attention. But, hey, who exactly is #2 in the House Republican Leadership?! At least the Dems were clearly sympathizing with the Iraqi people, and not their leaders.
The wingnuts run the Republican party. The center runs the Democratic Party. The 'liberal extremists' only hurt the center because people like CalPundit keep apologizing for them. It's a great way to get a Fox News gig - you know, "Even the liberal CalPundit doesn't like those icky Gay Rights parades. Not because there's anything wrong with that, but because they're hurting their cause which he cares so deeply about." Calpundit might want to look into the recent history of the gay rights movement, particularly ACT-UP. They realized quickly that the only way to get media attention to the fact that people were dying was to Make a Big Noise. They did, it worked.
