[Richard Kimball]

Haven't read through the posts, but the answer is simple. To the left, everything is political. Funerals, weddings, the planned "Gaying" of the White House Easter Egg Roll, the Boy Scouts, religion, plumbing (low-flow toilets), math (if 2,000 acres of rain forest are destroyed every day, how many acres are destroyed in a 365 day year), medicine (questionnaires at the doctor's office about how many firearms you own), etc. You name it; it's political. There is no time to them that should not be used to push a political advantage.

I saw a table discussion that included Rangel and a Republican strategist. At one point the Republican strategist turned to Rangel and said, "I don't want to silence you. As long as you're out there expressing your beliefs, we'll keep winning elections." I'm paraphrasing, but that was the substance. In one way, they anger me. Mrs. King's funeral could have been a time to honor her, but instead turned into a bout of political sniping because of comments by Carter and others at the funeral. On the other hand, they apparently learned nothing from the Wellstone funeral debacle, and that bodes well for the Republicans.

[Reactionary]

"On the other hand, they apparently learned nothing from the Wellstone funeral debacle, and that bodes well for the Republicans."

Indeed. They are shameless, and thus without the ability to understand the nature of the sacred.

It does bode well for Republicans. Most people are not shameless nihilists, contrary to what the Left would imagine them to be.