Despicable, and that's why I never read rats like Kos. And how can they smear Ayn Rand more than she's already been smeared ever since she wrote Atlas Shrugged? But why make Kos and his ilk the center of the Universe? Every time I read this and some other blogs I get the impression that I've stepped into an alternate Universe in which Kerry won the election, in which Democrats control the House and the Senate, in which pacifists are in command of our military, in which a gun-hating radical is Chief Justice on the Supreme Court, in which the propaganda of the Left-Leaning Antenna is swallowed without question, and in which the churches are dominated by the Socialist Gospel.

It's the other way around. Bush won the election and is in command of our military forces. Republicans control the House and the Senate. Rehnquist is still the Chief Justice of a basically conservative Supreme Court and his replacement will no doubt be another man like him. The blogosphere, books, radio, and other alternative sources challenge the "mainstream" media with increasing effectiveness. And most important, the churches and synagogues are returning to their old bedrock foundations in doctrine and dogma. Orthodox Jews, evangelical and fundamental Protestants, traditional Catholics, are on the rise, and there is even a renewed interest in Old Time Religions like Asatru. We are in the Second Religiousness.

The Left, as represented by Kos, is becoming increasingly rancid, that is true. But it is not only the profane side, it is increasingly the weak side (as the etymology of the word "left" indicates). That's where their shrillness and bitterness is coming from. As I've noted before, the Left has been in an ever-accelerating decline since as far back as the late 1940s. Kos and his ilk should be watched for subversive activity, of course, but otherwise should be treated with the contempt they deserve. They should be treated like the Holocaust deniers.

(I'm using "Left" in the sense that Jean A. Laponce defined that concept in his Left and Right: The Topography of Political Perceptions, i.e., the side of discontinuity, equality, secularism, horizontality, and entropy.)

By the way, James Valliant has written an excellent book soon to be available, The Passion of Ayn Rand's Critics, answering the ad hominem smears that the subversive forces have levelled against that great defender of our Western high culture.

It's going to be interesting to see how Andrea Mitchell deals with her side trying to take down her husband.

I think what gets me is the weird defensive projectionism from "David" there is no question that Republicans do the same crap to us all the time

but I honestly cannot think of a coordinated "attack" by Republicans on a Democrat that took the form of rooting through years of associations (ooo.. flagrant fraternizations with ::gasp:: conservatives! oh my) and holding up all "predictions" that didn't come to pass as "venal and stupid."

I hear such charges all the time but no one can give me a valid example. This tactic seems to be a "borking" but Robert Bork was no Democrat.

On a side note -- speaking of Ayn Rand, why did he put "objectivist" in quotes in front of her name? Objectivism is the philosophical movement she started. It's like saying "'Marxist' Karl Marx."

He probably doesn't like the word or the philosophy and feels clever calling it into question with sarcastic argumentative quotes. (I think it's just bad writing.)