Lemur made a very good point right at the beginning that the characteristics applied by this blogger to leftists (which seems quite a generalization to begin with) can just as easily be applied to the right (though that requires another blatant generalization).

I think the important things to remember are that the blogger's sentiments were opinion and not a reasoned argument-and should be treated as such-and that there is a great spectrum of personalities on both sides, neither mindless zealotry or reasonable contemplation being exclusive to one or the other.

Ajax