So, criticizing Jon Caldara's column is "attacking the messenger"?
Calling out Caldara's ad hominem attacks is "attacking the messenger"?
And as far as "lockstep acceptance of doctrine", why, that sounds like the deniers of human-caused global warming. ANY criticism of them is criticism of God, country, the free market, and for all I know, apple pie and baseball. And plays right into the hands of oil and gas company executives and coal company executives who want to see no evil, hear no evil.