MSNBC anchor Chris Matthews on Thursday continued to obsess over his favorite issue, the birthers. He excoriated the Republican Party, smearing that the “haters” now “have a party to call all their own, the GOP.” Painting with a broad brush, Matthews mocked, “How did the right-wing fringe manage to take over the Republican Party?” He later repeated the talking point, wondering, “Coming up, the party with the fringe on top? How did the right-wing fringe get control of a major political party?” Of course, a 2006 Scripps Howard poll found that 50.8 percent of Democrats believed it was “somewhat” or “very” likely that George W. Bush knew in advance of the plot to murder 3000 Americans on 9/11. That would seem to indicate that there are a significant number of “haters” in the Democratic Party.