A disconnect with reality

Today Michael Barone has an insightful piece (read the whole thing) about the Left's reaction to the airliner terrorist plot that was revealed last Thursday, noting that many Leftists are unable or unwilling to grasp the reality of the existential threat that transnational Islamic fundamentalism poses to the West:

What we are looking at here is cognitive dissonance. The mindset of the Left blogosphere is that there's no real terrorist threat out there. We wouldn't have any serious problem if we'd just do something different -- raise the minimum wage or reduce the number without health insurance (the first issue Lamont mentioned on election night), withdraw from Iraq or (as some Left bloggers suggest) sell out Israel.

Barone goes on to rightfully mock Ned Lamont, the millionaire moonbat who beat out Sen. Joe Lieberman for the Democratic nomination last Tuesday in the CT primary:

As for Lamont, on victory night he mentioned his policy to handle the nuclear threat posed by Iran: We should "bring in allies" and "use carrots as well as sticks." He evidently failed to notice that we deputized Britain, France and Germany to negotiate with Iran for three years and that Iran has been offered plenty of carrots and has not been threatened with many sticks. Once again, a disconnect with reality.

This disconnect has been apparent to anyone who has paid attention to the rhetoric of the far Left over the last few years. Such stupidity was of little concern as long as it remained on the fringes, but now it threatens to become the dominant mindset of the national Democratic party.

Such is my disgust with the free-spending Republican party that for the past few months I'd been considering sitting out the November election. Now I've come to understand that doing so would be irresponsible - it becomes more and more apparent that the Democratic party's national leadership cannot be entrusted with our national security - therefore sitting out the election would very nearly be an act of suicide.