So what shall we do with Marshall Wittman's office after his head explodes?
I think it should be turned into some sort of little museum dedicated to the fact that Democrats, too, can be insanely, disastrously, unshakeably wrong. Or maybe coated with tinfoil and turned into a UFO museum.
Of course, Wittman isn't a Democrat. No one seems able to explain to me why this slow-witted quadruped, who spends the vast majority of his blogging time attacking elements of what he claims is his own party, is able to walk unchallenged through the door of any institution with the word "Democratic" in its name.
Care to try an interesting experiment? Look through a month of Wittman. Make two lists: one for the derisive terms and epithets used against people on the left, and one for the right. Do you see what I see? Why on Earth would someone ostensibly advising Democrats reserve their most bitter vile for the fringes of their own party?
I'll tell you why. Wittman isn't on our side at all; he's a shill. He doesn't want to get his old conservative buddies TOO mad at him by calling them the names he uses daily against his supposed fellow-travelers. At some point, like Lieberman, he will sadly tut-tut that the party has abandoned him and go back to his old haunts.
You want to talk about litmus tests? Here's a good one. Someone who spends as much time and energy as Wittman does denigrating ANY group of Democrats with the bile he regularly as Old Faithful secretes upon Kossacks and the netroots, needs to be thrown out of the club so hard he bounces. Twice. We have enough slobbering righties calling us the "tinfoil hat brigade". Taking it from our side too doesn't work for me.
What Wittman doesn't realize after YearlyKos is that his goose is cooked. He is extinct. We all saw the Kossacks and you know what? They weren't the hysterical bunch Wittman wishes they were at all. Aside from one wild-eyed hippie with a sign taped to his shirt, it was a model of intelligent discussion - discussion on a level that would have passed right over the Moose's head.
Marshall Wittman, the Master of Conflated Thinking:
America simply cannot afford a defeat that emboldens our enemies - we already experienced that in the aftermath of Vietnam. As others have observed, if America withdraws now, we would hand a posthumous victory to Zarqawi. And the Democratic Party would be branded for the next generation as the party of retreat.
He left out "and it would make the Baby Jesus cry." I don't know how to BEGIN to address the flawed thinking in this rantlet. (I just copyrighted that word - I want credit, LOL) Anyone here ever hear of Zarqawi before the war? Did we go to Iraq to fight him? Who were these terrible enemies that were emboldened by Vietnam - did I miss something? Wittman buys into the whole shifting-goalposts thing of the Bush administration.
Here's another conflated rantlet:
And all of those wing nuts who thought they would be celebrating "Fitzmas" with a Rove indictment should understand that the corruption issue is turning into a dud. The American people increasingly cannot discern who are the good guys and who are the bad guys.
Oh, so Wittman wouldn't have been celebrating with us if it had gone the other way? How very interesting. We're "wing nuts" for recognizing that the President and his staff committed TREASON. And how VERY interesting that clearly, in his mind, the Plame investigation and the Abramoff matter and all the rest simply become swirled into "the corruption issue". The issue in the Plame case isn't corruption, Moosehead - the issue is TREASON! Not the shrill cry of the righties, to whom any disagreement with their ideas is treason. No, good, old fashioned, betray-your-country treason. To Wittman, that can all be filed under "corruption". What a mental giant.
Moosie can't get it through his head - it is not just the extreme left wing of the party behind all this action and noise. It is a broad swath of the Democratic Party. And if they can't wake up to this reality, we shall happily consign the likes of Wittman, Lieberman, and Schumer to the dustbin of history and turn their offices into day-care centers or something useful.
