Bipartisan attacks

Good ol' reliable Richard Cohen. According to the formula he is required to follow, he cannot attack Republican candidates -- which he does, by name -- without folding unnamed Democratic candidates into the fold, as well.

Of course, I do not really expect Romney to renounce his religion since, among other things, it would cost him more votes than it would gain him. But I do suggest that his craven crawl toward the White House shows a man of obvious talents and experience who illustrates how broken our system is. Why should anyone have to tailor his beliefs to get past ideological bottlenecks in the early primary states? For Republicans, it's the religious right; for Democrats, it's economic pressure groups such as teachers unions. The rest of us can only stand by, helpless, waiting for extremists to pick a man or woman on the basis of issues that mean less to us -- not the war in Iraq, for instance, but gay civil unions.

Equating the religious right with teachers unions. Yes, clearly, both have an equal hold on our political discourse these days.