Do you take issue with the tone or the content, because I think the latter is spot-on, if a little condescending.
I thought both posters were making some good and reasonable points (and in an important way, I agree with Trinity_Tx - that electing Hillary Clinton is a terrible price to pay for disagreeing with Condoleezza Rice on parts of this debate), but only one was rude and condescending.
At first I ignored it, but when I saw that person suggest the other was imagining it and insulted for no reason, I decided to say something.
It's more than a "little" condescending, and the fact that such isn't recognized and stopped exemplifies the problem.
As for the content, focusing only at the tip and blowing off as "mere shadows in a cave" the grassroots support and their influence on judicial nominees and the congressmen who confirm them is not spot-on.