I couldn't agree more that the the damage done by selfish zealots interested only in their own agenda and convinced  "ends justify the means" is  opne of the major problems we face.

  People, like you, ARE  a huge problem and exist in alarming numbers in both Parties.

Are we talking about the same guy?  Perhaps you're upset because most everybody reads his column before we wander over here and read whatever you've got to say.  Be thankful; at least we got here.    

Broder is not much of a fellow; just one of the more honorable, honest and insightful political columnists ever to slap together a few paragraphs.  Yeah, he's the essence of mainstream political thought, but that's where bills get passed the last I checked.  

What Broder is specifically decrying is the disintegration of rational and calm inter-party discourse over the last 10-15 years.  He's old enough to remember when things where different.  For him (and I agree), the era of the permanent campaign holds peril in that it furthers the advance of dishonest, invective filled attack politics and so deepends the sense of utter futility and alienation that most Americans feel towards all politics regardless of label.
That trendline has chaos, anarchy and revolution at its end.  While we may be miles away from that just yet, every day that we fill with things like the Kerry-troops-Bushg is stupid debate brings poltitcal Apocolypse more clearly into focus.