The strength of the Right compared to the Left in our relative Derangement Syndromes is the source of our intensity. On the Left, we have mostly atheists and materialists: politics has formed their passions and they have substituted political for religious feelings very freely: right down to calling their favorite “Messiah”. On the Right, with quite a number of us having a more conventional religious life, there isn’t a need for such substitution. We can get plenty angry, but it will not have the same intensity as the left. The Right’s political language is of right and wrong, good and bad choices, not of sin and redemption. We are all familiar with the Left’s tropes for their causes du jour: “if you disagree with the SCHIP, you must be a greedy miscreant”.

The secondary and IMHO larger sin is that the O-man seems to have swallowed his own myth and believes his own press. He shows that nice sign of irritability at the least challenge. Its going to be interesting as things get tougher: no more Mr. Nice Guy?

Finally, in keeping with the religion theme, why we should be saintly in our forbearance of political thuggery and knavery? We can take a lesson from the Brits in political opposition. I think the middle muddle appreciates good entertainment: if we can figure out how to score points and get some laughs, we will be getting ahead in the game. If we can draw blood at the same time, all the better.