Via Pajamas Media, I just discovered another reason I shouldn't be too quick to switch my party registration from Republican to Democrat. As it turns out, jogging is a right-wing activity:

Le jogging, originally known as le footing and now more fashionably as le running, caught on in France, as elsewhere, in the 1980s and eight million claim to indulge. But Mr Sarkozy has rekindled a French suspicion that the habit is for self-centred individualists such as the Americans who popularised it. "Jogging is of course about performance and individualism, values that are traditionally ascribed to the Right," Odile Baudrier, editor of V02 magazine, a sports publication, told Libération. Patrick Mignon, a sports sociologist, noted that French intellectuals had always held sport in contempt, while totalitarian regimes cultivated physical fitness.

Beyond the self-promotion, some commentators see something sinister in the media fascination with le jogging de Supersarko. The "hypnotic" daily images of presidential running are not innocent, said Daniel Schneidermann, a media critic. Mr Sarkozy uses the video images of his jogging as "a major weapon of media manipulation", said Mr Schneidermann.

I run three miles every other day, and I don't plan to give it up just so I can join the Democratic Party. Yet another reason I'd be wasting my time becoming a DINO again. And if this poll is correct, even the WorldNetDaily wing of the GOP might not hate me as hugely as I often suspect they do.

But still, every last thing has to be politicized, because there's no running away from the Culture War!