The Captain's Quarters has a post on the violence against Republicans

The protesters should be out there campaigning for their candidate. That is how its supposed to work.

Hong said the protest "reflects the frustration the Kerry people are feeling. If they could sell John Kerry, they'd be out doorknocking and phonebanking, not disrupting the proceedings of a rival campaign office."

The frustration may also be that Kerry is a unimpressive candidate and fanstastically difficult to understand even for the most brilliant of us. So faith in him requires faith in the religion of leftists and Democrats that this is the right thing to do.

The Captain's Quarters has a post detailing recent attacks and links to other sites on attacks.

And according to Mitch Berg [lifted directly from the Captain's Quarters post]:

And to so much of the left, politics is religion - the core of the person's intellectual and moral being. To a person for whom the political is the personal, it's a short jump to seeing politics as the adjunct, or even replacement for, the spiritual.

The basic premise by Mr. Berg is that the left has internalized politics like people internalize religion. It has become a religion for them and therefore the boundaries of right and wrong are becoming blurred. But I think that this argument is taking a little too much for granted, that religious core beliefs thusly enable an individual to suspend right and wrong to support or fight for these beliefs. I do not think that this is a reasonable argument not withstanding the argument that wars have been fought in a religious context in the past [mostly distant past].

But, in my humble opinion, its not just spiritual, its intellectual. The liberal left also thinks that they have an IQ advantage as evidenced by Bush AND Reagan being demonized as morons or as not intellectually curios [Thanks to the Democratic Underground and the LA Times, we keep this grand canard alive]. This then allows these individuals to think that they know better for others what is good for a person. They have both the internal 'religious' belief that they are right but are also supported by intellectual superiority. This has evolved into I know better than you what is good for you and if you don't agree with me, either you are stupid, have an ulterior motive or are evil. Of course, you also get the inevitable conspiracy theories if things don't go the left way [we will leave that for another post]. So when supporters of GWB show their preferences, these 'intellectuals' just cannot fathom or figure out why someone could possibly have a differing opinion.

So, if they want to attack, the I say bring them on! They are mostly girlie men anyway.