The gunman who shot up an aerobics class outside of Pittsburgh hated Christian conservatives. "The worst people by far are the religious types," he wrote in his disturbing online diary. "Especially a right-wing, stiff-faced fundie like Andy." Think about how stupid it would be if religious conservatives blamed the health club murders on the people who despise them.

But, dear GentleReader that is precisely what their enemies on the Left do in similar, or even dissimilar, situations. Eric Rudolph, the abortion-clinic bomber who didn't even believe in God, became representative of the "religious right" in the minds of the irreligious Left.

When an 80 plus year old racist, who had earlier attempted an armed invasion of a Reagan administration-era meeting of the Federal Reserve, murdered a Holocaust Museum guard in June,Chris Matthews Said: "Is there something really bad happening out there on the far right?"  Yes I know I'm being repetitive with that one.

"Science is my religion," Oklahoma City-bomber Timothy McVeigh remarked. But not in the of the irreligious Left, who preferred the Christian conservative of their imaginations to the genuine article agnostic, whose beliefs didn't fit the script they had assigned to him. Don't imitate leftist ideologues, no matter how tempting to provide comeuppance in such situations, as they are poor role models. Lone gunmen are just that, but for some reason this is not the case in the minds of the politically obsessed. They seem to envision that the solitary mass-murderer is somehow acting in concert with their most despised political adversaries.

I sigh.