A gleeful skewering of a particularly dim-witted Talking Points memo...

...may be found here. Democratic friends are advised either to skip it, or else to remember that I have a much higher opinion of private persons who lead productive and admirable private lives but happen, for whatever reason, to be of the liberal persuasion, than I have of professional Democrats -- in exactly the same way that I have a much higher opinion of private persons who lead productive and admirable private lives but happen, for whatever reason, to be true-believer Republicans, than I have of professional Republicans.