“This is what I like to call my ‘Told You So’ dance.”

It seems like it was not so very long ago, one Friedman Unit at the most, since certain pro-Iraq War harridans were chiding us here on The Left for speaking out openly against the President’s Grave and Deteriorating Cluster-F*ck in Iraq. If I recall correctly, I got a very special email from Melanie Morgan and Company assuring me and all the rest of us hot-shots (*cough*) in the Anti-War movement that our “extremist” positions would ultimately alienate us from the mainstream of society, make wretched our destinies, and cause us to be locked up in Gitmo Where We Belong.

To Wit:

You’ve become so despicable in your actions that America is now turning against you. You are failing.

You promised 100,000 marchers for the “March on the Pentagon” but your march was a total bust with only a few thousand protestors turning out to show solidarity with the terrorists, and speaking out against the fight for freedom.

And all the Wise Old Men of the Beltway were telling us that we undermine the President’s authority “at our peril”. (Or was that Joe Lieberman?)

Greg Sargent:

As you know, (David) Broder bows to nobody in his disdain for liberal bloggers. He’s called them “vituperative” and “foul-mouthed,” suggested that bloggers are “deranged,” and written that blogs are “heavier on vituperation of President Bush and other targets than on creative thought.”

We’ve been called “Blog-o-Fascists”, “Rabid Lambs”, and “The Nutroots”. We’ve been endlessly derided for our lack of patriotism, our purported shrillness, and our dissociation from the mainstream.

Lee Siegel (via Digby):

I am overwhelmed by the intolerance and rage in the blogosphere. Conscientiously criticize, in the form of a real argument, blogospheric favorites like Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, and the response isn’t similar criticism, done conscientiously and in the form of an argument, but insults, personal attacks, and even threats. This truly is the stuff of thuggery and fascism.

Yes, it’s true. Our blogospheric “thuggery and fascism” have been our downfall. Our wretched anti-American hearts have led to our undoing, and True Patriots like John McCain are currently being Greeted as Liberators of the American People, urging them to throw off the heavy, oppressive yoke of Blogofascism. The good, wise people of The Homeland are rewarding McCain’s stalwart support of the Iraq War by showering him with flowers and candy.

Or maybe not so much.

The US senator John McCain was today struggling to keep his White House bid alive after the resignations of his closest aide and other top advisers.

Mr McCain, who mounted a strong challenge for the Republican nomination in the 2000 presidential race, lost his chief strategist and long-time adviser, John Weaver, and his campaign manager, Terry Nelson, in the latest blow to a faltering effort.

(…)

The decorated Vietnam war veteran has already had to lay off more than half of his original campaign staff of 150 as financial contributions have dried up. Once the favourite to win the Republican nomination, Mr McCain has seen his poll ratings slump, mainly because of his strong support for President George Bush on the Iraq war.

(…)

Mr McCain’s support is in the single digits in some surveys in Iowa and South Carolina, trailing Rudolf Giuliani, the former New York mayor, Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, and Fred Thompson, the actor and former Tennessee senator who has not even officially entered the race.

Boy, I bet Joe Lieberman is glad he’s not running for anything this year.

So, all together now, on your feet! Throw your hands up in the air, and wave ‘em like there’s no repercussions! It’s time to do the Told You So Dance! Hooray!

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