"Nutty" presidential candidates

In response to Tom's post ("[I]f Robertson is still seriously in the loop for Republicans on political issues, that's bad.")-- and perhaps just to correct this blog's alarming leftist tilt (smiley face here) -- it should be noted that:  (1) Pat Robertson is a marginal figure in American politics, including in Republican circles, and has been for some time; (2) CNN, etc. know this full well, yet persist, in tediously predictable fashion, in pretending that "the story" is "prominent Republican calls for assassination"; (3) in fact, Robertson is no more prominent in the Republican party than some alarming leftist nut-jobs are in the Democratic Party (which, in my view, still makes him too prominent); and (4) the fact that Robertson was once a semi-successful presidential candidate (before, as Tom's post reminds us, some of his exceptionally loopy statements) is no more telling about the state of things on "the right" than the fact that wack-jobs Dennis Kucinich and Al Sharpton -- and Howard Dean and Michael Moore? -- played to rave reviews from the Democratic base during the last election.

Alright.  Partisan rant over.  Back to linking to left-leaning blogs, thereby confusing the blog aggregators.

Rick