Thank You For Calling, Joan

Over at Salon.com, Joan Walsh kicks off the New Year with a revival of our favorite self-pitying talking points from the soy-'n'-socialism set: Liberals lose out in politics because they are too:

1. nice;

2. honest;

3. pure;

4. loving;

5. decent.

Yeah, tell that to a Charlie Rangel, Barney Frank or a Chris Dodd. Tell it to Bill Clinton. Tell it to the ghost of any of the Kennedys or LBJ. Tell it to Joan Walsh, for that matter, editor of "petrified chimp" hit pieces.

Too pure is not the elected liberals' problem; too squirelly is.