Do you want to know why many on the left don't get much respect from those on the right? Its because from the leadership down to the goon-squads on the street the left has become a radical movement. They aren't interested in civil political debate. They don't see this year's campaign as an election, they see it as a war with Bush and his supporters as the hated enemy. They've forgotten that we're all just Americans looking to choose a leader for the next four years.

Case in point, this quote from Daily Kos about the AIDS activists disrupting the convention today:

There should be more of this. I know of several groups of people who have "infiltrated" the hall.

And memo to the Secret Service -- I don't have any names, so don't bother trying to contact me.

So he feels protesters should seek to supress the free speech of Republicans more often? He doesn't even feel that Republicans deserve the right to hold their own convention free of distractions from unruly protesters?

Who are supposed to be the fascists in this election again?

Actually, you know what this does remind me of? The brainless sheep from George Orwell's Animal Farm who stop any questioning of Napleon's rule by chant's of "four legs good two legs bad."

Update:

Sigh...

The big question of the night -- will Cheney eat a baby live on national television?

I think if he can resist his natural tendencies for baby eating, his speech will be a home run.

That's the way to inspire healthy political debate.