Denial.

Over at Blogger Beer I am engaged in an exchange with some leftist outraged that Richard Cohen thinks profanity and vitriol is going to lose elections for the left.

My commentator is flummoxed when I call him a lefty, after all, he is a veteran, a small business man, and a family man. The fact he is outraged at Richard Cohen's stand on Stephen Colbert's disgraceful performance at the Whitehouse Correspondents Dinner or the fact he can fairly considered to be a Daily Kos charter member. I am surprised he isn't claiming to be a card carrying Republican who voted for President Bush but is now PO'ed at the President and has gone over.

This is an interesting contrast between those on the left and us on the right. Most of us here (at least among posting members) consider ourselves conservative and none of us are ashamed that we may be considered far right. Whereas many on the left work very hard to deny they are lefty or try to hide behind euphemisms such as progressive or liberal. When progressive becomes associated with leftism they will undoubtedly come up with another euphemism.

This indicates to me, the modern right is closer to the heart of the American body politic than the modern left. I believe as the baby boomers fade from the scene the body politic will shift further to the right. The death-shrieks from the leftist movement will be mistaken by many as being reason but in reality they are panic.