I said last week (in my post "The Day The Antiwar Movement Imploded") that the MoveOn ad alleging treason by General Petraeus would be the beginning of the end for the antiwar movement.

The odds continue to go up that I was right. I'd say right now, they're 72 to 25.

That is, as you may have guessed, the vote count on the resolution in the Senate condemning MoveOn's ad. 25 of the usual far-left Democrats (Kennedy, Durbin, Kerry) voted against it, as did Hillary, a couple (both of whom, Obama and Biden, are running for president) managed to be absent, but every Republican and almost half the Democrats voted for the resolution to condemn the organization that just months ago was claiming it owned the Democratic party.

It's hard to think of a comparable moment in American political history when the knives came out against a force that had gotten too powerful for its own good-- the Buckley crowd expelling the Birchers and the anti-semites from the respectable conservative movement in the 50s? The wave of 1920s anti-Klan legislation in midwestern states that drove it out of its original territory in Indiana, Ohio and Michigan? Something like these, I suppose.

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Meanwhile, history, in one of its delicate ironies, gives us another perfect example of how morally rotten some of our most leftist precincts have become.

In California, the regents of the university system will not allow their ears to be polluted by former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, who is untouchable for having stated the observable fact that there are relatively few women in the highest echelons of science.

In Columbia, the administrators will allow their grounds to be sullied by a speech by former hostage taker Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who is acceptable despite having denied the observable fact* that six million Jews were killed in the Holocaust.

Add in the Duke "rape" case, the Ward Churchills and all the rest, and the bonkers-left domination of academia and the greater leftist movement may finally come under public scrutiny and, in many cases, the censure and abhorrence by decent people that it has long deserved.

* Yes, 1983Merman, it IS an observable fact. Quite simply so, in fact. As Billy Wilder wrote one Holocaust denier, "What a relief it is to learn that six million Jews were not murdered by the Nazis. Just one question, though. Where is my mother?"