Reject, reject, reject

Bill Whittle represents a non-apologist vox populi for the legions of non-fundamentalist, college-educated, middle-class, white, consumerist, SUV-drivers out there who may or may not have served their country in the military (but probably didn't), who may or may not go to church (but probably don't), who once upon a time considered themselves middle-of-the-road (or maybe even liberal), but who have allowed irrational fear to take over their politics since 9/11. I don't know which is scarier, fundamentalist Christians who yearn for a theocracy while waiting for the rapture (those folks are almost cartoonish), or the platoon of panderists like Whittle that have created an idealism of "red state" enlightened conservatism that purports to be without racial, ethnic, or sexual prejudice but who too easily demonize progressives as cowards, America haters, or Islamist sympathizers. To pundits like Whittle, America is involved in a new holy war. I just can't figure out how much of what makes America great these people are willing to sacrifice in order to win it, or, for that matter, what they think Iraq had to with it.
It took five Google screens' worth of wingnut salivation over Mr. Whittle's profound erudition before I found this. What a relief.