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Steve M. at No More Mister Nice Blog makes a not-so-nice, but absolutely true point...

Right-wingers simply hate liberals, and people they believe are liberals (the entire mainstream media, for example), more than they hate bin Laden and Zawahiri and Zarqawi. We are the real enemy.

Conservatives don't care that the masterminds of 9/11 are still at large, as is the anthrax killer -- they've begun taking down the real menaces to society, John Kerry and Tom Daschle and Dan Rather and Eason Jordan. They're working on Ward Churchill.

It really goes to the heart of the problem for Democrats. We want to convince our opponents, then go forward together for the good of the country.

The radical destructionists who've won the Republican king of the mountain game for the moment don't care to convince. They just want to destroy. They lie, smear, use every ugly and illegal swindle they can find, because they don't want to go forward at all. Or back, really. They just want to destroy, and don't care who or what is destroyed in the process.