In case you didn't know, Alex has been been cheating on me by masturbating into cyberspace all on his lonesome over at Theo's gift. I like to pretend it doesn't happen, but every once in a while I check in.

Anyway, in this post he links approvingly to this quote: "What slightly disturbs me about most liberals is their hypertense refusal to admit the corollary. "Anybody But Bush"--and this from those who decry simple-mindedness--is now the only glue binding the radical left to the Democratic Party right. "

That's not a fault of liberals, or the Democratic Party, or even Bush's power to unite through incompetence, but rather of the two party system. According to virtually anyone but Ralph Nader, it is in your best interest to vote for the candidate you hate least. This is how grand coalitions are built and how Olympia Snowe and Tom DeLay can be in the same party. Or how Log Cabin Republicans can keep a straight face (no pun intended) when they say that third word in their name.

Alex does make the case for the Right also having this problem, but I think doesn't go far enough in how it plagues the Right as much as the left, or the obvious cause of it in the first place.