Udall the Extremist

It is going to be very hard for the Mark Udall campaign to sell the public on the "moderate" label if the Colorado Springs Gazette continues to refer to his actions as "extremist."

But because they [ Mark Udall and John Salazar ] didn’t get all they wanted, which is a total ban, the extremists and their political allies want to jettison the process and take matters into their own hands. There’s only one plan for drilling on the Roan that will meet with their approval — no drilling.

Even if one argues that the Gazette stopped just short of calling the two lefty Colorado congressmen extremists, it made it clear that they were doing the work of extremists. What is the difference?