Although I'm pretty sure it was unintentional, Kevin Drum made me laugh today when he indignantly criticized former Quayle speechwriter Lisa Schiffren for her "sick" hatred.

As long as we're laying our cards on the table, this is one of the things that keeps me on Hillary's side regardless of anything to do with issues or tactics or rhetoric or anything else. I just hate the idea that the fever swamp has been able to turn a perfectly decent liberal woman into such an object of malign loathing. If she loses, then she loses. But by God, I don't want her to lose because millions of Schiffren's fellow travelers have carried on a 15-year vendetta of sick-minded smears and hatred. Enough's enough.

Setting aside the numerous instances where Hillary has demonstrated that she is anything but a decent liberal woman, Drum either doesn't see or chooses to ignores the massive, institutionalized hatred the left cultivates for Bush. His commenters sensed the elephant in the room and produced additional humorous statements.

To hate someone not for something she's done but for what she seems to represent to the hater, that's heinous.

Whereas Bush hatred is totally justified because of what a shitty mess he has made of this country...

Everytime I hear or read this, I look around and wonder if they are in the same country I am.