Reply #34: Left-wing panic dust?

[JoeyT]

Of course the "Left wing panic dust clouds" as you put it seem to keep happening the same way.

1) Left freaks out over something.
2) "Sensible" people insist there's no reason to freak out: That would never ever happen. Ever.
3) Thing the left freaked out over happens.
4) "Pragmatic" people insist that it should have happened anyway and they were for it all along.
5) Repeat.

By the way, Arianna was a conservative until the very late 90s. Stopped listening to her when she quit backing Gingrich and Dole? Sounds sensible to me.