His previous articles were less antagonistic than this childish screed. But I think he's getting that Michael Moorish mania that comes from the very real fear that Bush is going to win reelection. They know they've got a flip-flopping unlikeable hump heading their ticket, with a lightweight trial lawyer poseur by his side.
Things are looking pretty grim in liberal land these days, so they're lashing out like rapid trapped animals.
I think its kinda funny to watch, but that's me.
I haven't come across Perlstein before, but IMO this hatchet-job article is far beneath the standard of the Village Voice, which also employs some truly great journalists such as Sydney Schanberg. Yes, it is a liberal paper with a point of view, but it has also run a lot of stories that poked some big holes in the liberal establishment (some very unflattering stories about Andrew Cuomo and even Hillary Clinton come to mind.) So I hope people reading this will not dismiss the paper, just this writer. He is hopeless.