Liberals and leftists have been dismissing inconvenient facts by attacking motives for generations. In the 1930s, '40s, and '50s, Soviet spies and abettors attacked the motives of their accusers because the fact of their guilt was undeniable. In the 1960s, over a thousand psychiatrists who'd never even met Barry Goldwater signed a petition saying the GOP candidate was too mentally unstable to be president.

I think there needs to be a meeting to set an agenda for more meetings about meetings.

Facts are mere speed bumps on the road to lefty moral outrage.

I would also say Barack Obama has spent much, much, much, much more money than the Republicans.

But if the choice is a cool president and 8 or 10 percent unemployment in a declining economy and a country that seems to be going in the wrong direction and structural unemployment for young people at 50 percent, I'd rather have a dorky president who fixed those problems.

And in the minds of progressives you are free to live anyway you want so long as it's progressive.

...associational ad hominem attacks remain the left's favorite rhetorical strategy for undermining opponents.