We're largely debating about angels on the head of a pin, but what the heck... If you scan my comments, you'll see that I never uttered the phrase "the Democra

We're largely debating about angels on the head of a pin, but what the heck... If you scan my comments, you'll see that I never uttered the phrase "the Democrat party". My phrase was "a Democrat talking point", and I think this is quite consonant liguistically with a statement like "I am a Democrat". Nobody says "I'm a Democratic". Specifically, had I said that "gun control is a Democratic talking point", that would indicate that the talking point of gun control is somehow characterized by democracy (but for the capital "D", which may help resolve it, I admit). That is nothing like what I meant. "John Kerry's yacht" refers to a person who claims that we should all be paying our fair share to provide such democratic (note the lower-case D: I do mean that it's characteristic of democracy) funding for our government. Specifically, it refers to the recent discovery that he had moored his boat out-of-state in order to avoid sales tax, painting him as hypocritical. Kerry was the first to come to mind because of its recency. One might also reference anti-immigration Republicans and their cleaning ladies, for example. I'm a partisan. I own it. You should do the same. I'm not partisan, at least not in the way that's typically used, in the polarization of American politics between left and right. I am a member of the Libertarian Party, so in a proper sense I am a partisan, but I'm not of the sort that mindlessly bashes the {GOP,DEM} while ignoring the faults of the {DEM,GOP}. For example, you'll see that just up-thread, I called the NRA "GOP stooges". And there are precious few Libertarians in office for me to criticize.