That's it...?

From MSNBC.com:

"The Democratic Party’s most powerful constituencies — gays, feminists, African-Americans, environmentalists — would be chagrined to see Democratic senators join the Republican majority to give Bush a landmark victory by confirming Roberts."

This almost seems like commentary disguised as a journalistic piece. I vote Democratic, but I'm obviously not in any of these categories. Why can't just regular-every-day-Joes be considered "powerful constituencies"? Everyone has to be pigeonholed into a specific category. A lot of people vote Republican who aren't right-wing nutjobs (as I like to call them). They're just for small government and less taxes. That the current actions of Republicans don't fit that description is irrelevant. From this article, Democrats are the equivalent of the Green Party. Inconsequential. Rather hard to justify when you are in 40-45% of elected government in the nation.

Maybe they'll quit stereotyping Dems, when we stop calling them "nut jobs." Just maybe.