Setting aside all vituperation for just a moment, it’s so nice to know that the same ardent Centrists who helped George Bush gain the White House twice are now clamoring to be the latest in line to protect us from his Neo-Stalinist ambitions.

Well, thanks at least for finally getting it.

Columnist David Broder writes that the "know-it-all" arrogance of Gore and Kerry rankles "Midwesterners" like himself. Golly gee, I grew up in the same midwestern state of Illinois that Broder did, and I left there more recently- 26-odd years ago as opposed to Mr. Broder's 46. Hasn't anyone bothered to tell him that both John Kerry and Al Gore carried Illinois in their respective Presidential elections?

I guess Illinoisans weren't sufficiently rankled for Mr. Broder's taste. It seems to me that I've heard tell of other Midwestern states that voted for at least one of these two Democrats as well. But what do I know; I'm just one of those "vituperative, foul-mouthed bloggers on the left". Oh yeah? So's your old man, Broder.

While we're on that subject, if you really wanted to drive Liberal bloggers into a vituperative, foul-mouthed frenzy, you could do worse than to blame them for the fact that you supported Bush and helped him get elected twice, partly by pointing out how arrogant Kerry and Gore were.

If only one of these candidates had simply shown more deference to Mr. Broder, the self-styled "Dean of American Political Reporters", we could have avoided this whole mess.

Unapologetic and apparently unchastened, Broder now writes of Bush:

"he has proved to be lawless and reckless. He started a war he cannot finish, drove the government into debt and repeatedly defied the Constitution."

Well thats weird; Broder's beginning to sound like a vituperative, foul-mouthed Liberal. After all, we've been saying pretty much the same thing for years.

I for one am glad he's on board to protect the country from rampant Liberalism. And thank goodness he's not being arrogant about it either.