It seems so obvious...

...when you see it written out, but it had never occurred to me. Unsuprisingly, a simple observation by Digby explains so much...

These doughy, briefcase GOP baby boomer geeks have always had a case of arrested development. They started their "revolution" in their 40's. In their 50's they've discovered the "generation gap." The rest of us got over this intergenerational squabbling a couple of decades ago. It's never too late to act like a teen-age ass.

I've often been puzzled why otherwise apparently bright people constantly support juvenile, simplistic solutions to real problems. It's because of their simplistic, juvenile mentality. Of course.

Hell, they've even tried to reproduce the war they missed when they were kids, so today's kids won't miss out...