[Bigg Red]

Not only do they think they are the only ones with the right to get up in someone's face about an issue, but on a subconscious level they realize that they have overplayed their hand.

Very astute observation, MI.

[Media Insurgent]

Thanks, but credit for the idea should go to Ayn Rand. The main thing I took away from Atlas Shrugged was the realization that the left needs us in order to survive. Otherwise there's no one left to take money from or use as straw dogs in their class warfare rhetoric. How could Jesse Jackson continue financially without big mean corporations to shake down for $$$? How could Clinton have survived politically without stirring up fear about Gingrich and a Vast Right Wing Conspiracy?

The only problem for the lefties is that the whole dynamic relies upon passivity, confusion or ineptitude on the part of conservatives. If they push too hard, we wise up and get mad and they are in danger of losing the gravy train. It's like a parasite that kills its host. That thought has to be absolutely terrifying for people to whom self-reliance is a dirty word.

I think the protests outside the Vice Presidential Mansion provided just such a frightening vision to the liberals. It showed them that we let them get away with a lot during the Clinton years, but we were drawing a line in the sand on that election.