Politico.com’s inconsistent bias (accused by both sides) leads me believe they may suffer from collective ideological Bipolar Disorder. Politico has previously claimed it’s not all that ideologically biased, but it’s doubtful they’ve managed to root out worldview bias, which is ideological in nature.

Regardless, at the moment, Politico seems to be in the midst an anti-conservative mood swing. 

Jim VandeHei and Michael Allen paint outspoken conservatives as “hard-core” miscreants who are going to ruin the Republican Party’s 2010/12 chances because their “flamboyant rhetoric and angry tone” is chasing away the sensitive moderates. They’re shooting at Limbaugh, Beck, et al, but, surprisingly their target is also the rank-and-file teaparty conservatives: 

Many top Republicans are growing worried that the party’s chances for reversing its electoral routs of 2006 and 2008 are being wounded by the flamboyant rhetoric and angry tone of conservative activists and media personalities, according to interviews with GOP officials and operatives.

Their message is for conservatives to quit pressuring their weary leaders to be more conservative:

…some Republicans worry the party could squander an opportunity to capitalize on voters’ concerns about Obama and the Democratic Congress because they come off looking shallow, sharply partisan or just plain odd to persuadable voters.

This is standard RINO fare, those who are in the Republican party but whose animus is ‘conservative Democrat.’ Do you have any doubt that the “many top Republicans” they speak of are John McCain, Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty and Eric Cantor? You shouldn’t doubt it, since the article names them specifically.

Politico attempts to demonstrate their point:

This big tension is playing out in a smaller way in the special election in upstate New York. Congressional leaders are backing moderate Dede Scozzafava, despite her liberal views on abortion and other issues, because they think she has the best chance of winning this swing district. Conservatives, including many who participated in the much-publicized “tea party” protests, are convinced she is insufficiently Republican, so they are throwing their support and money to third-party candidate Doug Hoffman.

 The result: Polls show the Republican vote could be so split that a lackluster Democratic candidate could pull off a win. If Republicans blow this race, it will leave the GOP holding only two of New York’s 29 House seats. A decade ago, it had 14, most of which were occupied by Northeast moderates who no longer feel welcome in the party and were voted in by independents who remain very skeptical of the party’s policy solutions

But, Even Tim Mak on RINO David Frum’s website Newmajority.com opposes Scozzafava:

Across the country, Republicans are scratching their heads and wondering, “How in the world did we end up with Scozzafava?” How did the GOP pick someone who is in favor of card check and had been approached by the Democrats to be their nominee? How did the Republicans in upstate New York choose a candidate who, according to one rating system, is more liberal than 43% of New York State Assembly Democrats?

Gosh, maybe “Republicans” like Scozzafava who support betraying basic democratic ideals like, you know, voting privacy, shouldn’t be welcome in the Republican party?

How clear it is, now, that Politico is trying to manipulate it’s readers by omitting the rest of the story.

I take it back, it’s not Bipolar Politico is suffering from, it’s just plain old emotional detachment that we see all too often in political analyzers who like to play games with people’s lives.