Could they contrive to be more predictable?

Apropos my post yesterday on that Pew poll and Obama ... I'm on the train this morning and I open my Wash Post to the op-ed page. And there I am struck by Michael Gerson's column (he's the former Bush speechwriter and religious rightist), and the headline thereon: "The Most Polarizing President."
 
Did I call it or what? Of course it was like predicting that the sun would rise in the east. The column itself is an overbaked screed wrapped in a little gauze of the sort that has given Gerson a reputation around this town, wholly unearned as far as I can see, of being a reasonable person.
 
One just has to laugh. Don't these people see how ridiculous they look? I'm sure Gerson is receiving streams of congratulatory emails from his comrades this morning. But does he really think that more than 15-20% of Americans outside the right think Barack Obama is more polarizing than the congressional GOP? I can't believe he actually believes that.
 
So we turn to alternative explanations. The most benign is that he was flailing around for a column idea, a dilemma we all face now and again. The worst is that he's just writing pure propaganda. I report, you decide.