Eschaton on “liberal extremism”:
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.