Being of the left means never having to say you're sorry.

We need to refrain so that we don't sucked down with them on their way to complete irrelevence. Let's not go for the Phyrric victory, discourse-wise.

Maybe our respectable public officials should refrain, but this asshole just called me -- sweet old me -- a Nazi.

If Al Gore calls me a Nazi, I don't see that I have any obligation to refrain from calling him a traitor.

Is he technically a traitor?

Well I don't know. Am I technically a brownshirt Nazi?

Okay, a little reality check, Ace:

I wasn't precisely restrained and civil prior to my former Vice Presdient branding my dissent to be Nazi behavior.

I'll admit that.

But no one can say that right-wing bloggers owe civility to this traitor now that he's called us Nazis.

Well, I both agree and disagree with you. I was going to say that the best way to deal with an onviously insane person is to just let them leep talking to their invisible foes.

But right now it occurs to me that, sadly, Al Gore, far from being an anomoly, is pretty much mainstream Democrat right now; even Republicans didn't embrace Pat Robertson the way the Dems embrace Gore and Moore.

So, I guess he can't be ignored.

But.

There has to be a better way of dealing . . .

No. Wait.

Just remembered the Dems own mainstream public discourse as well.

Fuck it.

They're nazis.

"But no one can say that right-wing bloggers owe civility to this traitor now that he's called us Nazis."

We do not now, nor did we ever, owe Al Gore a single thing. We should refrain from aping him, not because we owe it to him, but because we are better than him.