PRESTOPUNDIT

RICK PERLSTEIN HATES YOU and your nut job "Stepford-nice" wife -- the both of you are pestilent carriers of what has become an un-American creed.

But likely you'll be moved to ask who the nut job is here, because it's truly amazing what venom, bile, and contempt this biographer of Barry Goldwater can work up for regular folks in a Western city who support the re-election of the President. The piece really has to be read to be believed.

For more Perlstein, see what Michael Kinsley has published from this "historian of the conservatives" in today's LA Times. Quotable: "For those who believe the Republican coalition does harm, it's time to make the Republican coalition impossible. " Posted by Greg Ransom