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... that the political Left has been sucked into a black hole of insufferably whiny, self-pitying, self-righteous navel-gazing that will turn off all those "purple" voters out there who are looking for centrist leadership. (And no, Obama's not it, either.)
No matter what you typical Salon-ites might think in your blissful solipsism, you are far from centrist or mainstream. You are so far out into the nether reaches of moonbat-dom that you've been irretrievably lost to NORAD's tracking radar. Anyone you're for is guaranteed to lose.
But then, come to think of it, that's not a sad thing at all.