The New Hampshire and national Democratic Parties previewed their 2012 election strategies at the state party's mid-term state convention this weekend, and not surprisingly, they are exactly the same: Attack everyone who disagrees with them as being a fringe extremist.

Saturday's convention was full of predictable verbal assaults on not just the Republican Party, but citizens of all parties who think government spends too much, borrows too much and listens too little.

“We need to send that whole whack-a-do gang packing,” State Democratic Party Chairman Ray Buckley said. “We have come too far to let those right-wing radicals win the day.”

In case you're wondering who those “whack-a-do” right-wingers are, Democratic National Committee Chairman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who spoke at Saturday's convention, gave clarifying remarks on “Face the Nation” on Sunday: all of the Democrats' opponents.

“It doesn't much matter which one of the Republicans gets nominated because they're all the same. They are all embracing and bear-hugging the Tea Party. Moving to the right — they can't move to the right far enough,” she said.

To Wasserman Schultz, Jon Huntsman, Mitt Romney and Ron Paul are “all the same.” That's how the party sees non-Democrats. They're all radicals and extremists. Never mind that some Tea Party members in New Hampshire protested Mitt Romney when he spoke at a Tea Party rally recently, or that Huntsman has not courted Tea Party support, or that many Tea Partiers are vocally critical of Texas Gov. Rick Perry. The Democratic playbook for 2012 is written: Attack any and all opponents as crazy.

If you are one of the thousands of Granite Staters or millions of Americans who voted last fall to get government borrowing and spending under control and to block tax hikes, bailouts and “stimulus” pork, to the Democratic Party you're a right-wing “whack-a-do.” And if you think that's bad, just imagine what they'd call you if they didn't believe in restoring civility to politics after the Gabrielle Giffords shooting.