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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (11796)	11/24/2009 6:00:19 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 42652

No you differentiate the 30% or so of the population that comprises the Republican base and tar them as nutcases. OK. Maybe you really can't read! "the whole party ends up looking as stupid and classless as the base." Look at that. There are two entities there. One is labeled "the whole party" and the other is labeled "the base." "Whole party" clearly includes two subsets, "the base" and some "other" Republicans (specified elsewhere). There are two subsets of "whole party." Count 'em. Two different entities, one of them characterized negatively, the other not. If you can't see that, try reading it yet again. If you still can't see it, then you really can't read critically. No you differentiate the 30% or so of the population that comprises the Republican base The Republican base is not 30% of the population. The "whole party" is less than 30% of the population. I think it's around 26% in the most recent polls. That 26% then has to be divided between "the base" and "other" Republicans. I don't have any idea how much of that 26% is base and how much is other but the base would be way less that 26% of the population you claim I dissed. You also differentiate the 35% or so the population that are the democrat base and call them mainstream. I didn't address the size of the democrat base so I don't know where you got that but I would guess that it would about the same percent of the D "whole party" as the Republican base is of the R "whole party," maybe a quarter or so. As for my characterization of the D base, I posted: "Although that post wasn't about the Democrats, I regularly make that same differentiation there. I disdain hacks and nutters regardless of political persuasion." You should be able to see that I gave the D base and the R base equal credit. As for the "mainstream" characterization, that was in the context of radicals. Only some subset of the D base would be radical. The rest of the D base (and most of the R base) would be mainstream. Nutters, perhaps, but mainstream ones.