Starting Off On The Wrong Foot - Leading With The Left: One Step Forward (Two Steps Back)

"In just about every speech at their 2008 convention, Democrats promised voters that a change in the White House would, in Barack Obama’s formulation, restore 'our moral standing' in the world. Replace the unilateralist cowboy at the top with a humbler multilateralist, and the path would finally be cleared to fix vexing international issues such as curbing carbon emissions and dealing with the mullahs in Iran. Like many of the party faithful’s long-nurtured beliefs, this hope has disintegrated on contact with reality."

-- Matt Welch, on the most potent force in the political universe - reality - which always pushes back those who still insist on living by their "long-nurtured", silly, backwards, cave-dwelling, primitive-minded, childish, medieval "beliefs", instead of joining the modern world of Reason.