VITRIOL IN POLITICS: Michael Barone has an interesting observation:

What we are seeing is a civil war between the two halves of the baby boom, the liberal half that basked in national publicity in the late 1960s and the conservative half that smoldered in resentment for many years until its more recent rise to prominence.

Read the whole thing.

UPDATE: Roger Simon says Barone’s analysis is too simple: “You can be for gay marriage and democracy in Iraq, even if you’re over forty.” And read this, too.