"An astonishingly stupid political calculation..."

Hugh Hewitt, writing about the Religious Right duel between Taranto & Hutchens:

A handful of hard-left ranters, dressed up with some polished stylists like Hitchens, have decided that the path to 2008 lies in an aggressive campaign against people of faith who vote Republican. This is truly an astonishingly stupid political calculation, but one in which Senate Democrats have joined. If you attend church nearly weekly and vote GOP, the Democrats think you are a menace, and to be blocked not just from the judiciary but from public life. The intensity of the hatred for people of faith coming from the left is new and remarkable in that it is pervasive and indiscriminate. In November the Democrats were wondering about how to appeal to "values voters." Six months later they have launched an offensive against them all, eager to complete their exile from the party and even from politics.

I'm not sure I agree that this will mean an exile from politics, much less the party, but I hope there will be some political consequence to the Democrats' anti-faith rhetoric.