[adam_az]

He doesn't say they're wrong, he doesn't dispute the facts: instead, he employs a time-honored device straight out of the neoconservative playbook: he tries to smear them as being from "the fringe."

That's a childish ad hominem, I honestly expected better from you! Can you show me a copy of said playbook, and where this tactic is suggested? Or are you just using this kind of labelling to paint your opponent as being.... on the fringe?

[My2Cents]

Pat Buchanan gets 0.4% of the vote in 2000, and we're told he and his ilk are not "fringe."