Notice their heroes and spokespersons — Ronald Reagan, Charlton Heston, Chuck Norris, Sarah Palin and lately some silicon-inflated beauty queen. We are supposed to overlook the part that their actual leadership was predominantly chickenhawk. But there’s even something workable their because it gives the average chickenhawk among them something to identify with while imagining themselves something more fierce along the lines of their gender archetypes.

For the Right, life is one long, monomaniacal quest to get even with the Left.

They are fulfilled by this. It has elements of projection too but at a deeper level is satisfies something primal in the way they make out their object of hatred to be so purely and consummately ***** (fill in the blanks here…evil, duplicitous, ignorant or malicious, etc.).

This person becomes the funnel for some cathartic rage and indignation which, in turn, fires them up even more. Never mind that they are unable to explain themsevles coherently at times the thrill is in the chase rather than any eventual “catch”.

It is also telling and perhaps even Oedipal that strong women seem to trigger this response to a greater degree than men. First they fixated on Hilary Clinton and now Pelosi. These women are quite unlike their female counterparts on the right who, in some very narrow range, stick close to the right-wing mantra of the day…a recitation identical or at least never straying far from the one their conservative men-folk are simultaneously blasting out. Notice that you will never see male-female disagreement and very little female initiative from within the right.

Bill Russel ini his book on Red Auerbach recounted his grandfather’s advice which was that everyone in life has this little red wagon full of stuff that they carry around with them in life and sometimes this stuff causes them to do some crazy things. When they come at you it has nothing to do with you or anything you did. It is actually about them.

So we are no longer dealing with a political ideology here. It’s a psychological phenomenon.

Some of us here in American are very, very sick and a few are evil enough to exploit that for the sake of their own power. Look at it through those glasses and a lot more makes sense, I think.

And they are probably right.

Pelosi may in fact be a hypocrite in this matter, but that doesn’t un-make torture advocates of the GOP. Their next ploy will probably be something along the lines of, “Look! Is that Elvis over there?!”