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More name-calling. I guess that comes as news to millions of talk show fans. ;-) We're flattered to be described as "extremists." Liberals are just a bunch of moderates, which is why of course we're denounced for not embracing "bipartisanship," which is basically selling out our beliefs to help advance the liberal agenda. When you get right down to it, yeah the Left is worried. And with good reason. The days when they set the agenda and used to ignore conservatives and pull the wool over the eyes of the American people are over. Times have changed and now conservatives are in the drivers seat. Liberals have become unhinged by hate and its hate that driving them to engage in name-calling and offering up platitudes to substitute for a real agenda to make a difference in this country. The problem for liberals is what they have offer there's no market for. Gee, I am getting a warm and fuzzy feeling over being given so much attention from the other side and I have this schadenfreude over their complete state of utter dejection. (For instance, Kim Gandy can praise the Ditzy Shticks but then again you know what Main Street America thinks of gals who have to go naked to make a comeback. A helpful hint to Ms. Gandy: it ain't happening and the same can be said of the philosophy America isn't buying and your own wing of it, the feminazi movement). Its not a good time to be a liberal in America.

When you get right down to it, yeah the Left is worried. And with good reason. The days when they set the agenda and used to ignore conservatives and pull the wool over the eyes of the American people are over. Times have changed and now conservatives are in the drivers seat.

I only partly agree. We are NOT in the driver's seat. We are now competitive in several areas where we were not even in the game thirty years ago:

* We now have access to media that can present the conservative viewpoint--talk radio and Fox. We did not have that before. But the left still dominates the large news outlets and has viewership and readership far greater than the conservative outlets.

* We have three of nine supreme court justices that are "originalists." Occasionally, they team with two RINO justices to issue a conservative opinion. But again, all we have is representation in the arena of ideas. We don't drive.

* We have between 35 and 40 conservative Senators. Again, it is enough to get conservative ideas presented but not enough to drive a conservative agenda, without huge concessions to RINOS. As to any truly conservative ideas--reducing the size of government--that is a pipe dream given today's political alignment.

Don't get me wrong, I like being competitive. The left hates it because their dominance of American politics for almost a century was based on their ability to squash any opposing viewpoint and--to be honest--the absence of any compelling alternative until Buckley and Meyers and Goldwater and Reagan created the modern conservative movement.

But don't mistake the ability to compete with being in the driver's seat. Before we have that, we have to take back the universities, defund the leftist NGO's, get our viewpoint presented on ABCNBCCBSNYT . . . and most important, have 5 originalists on the Supreme Court and 51 conservative senators.