Right-Winger Barnes Admits That Bush Hating Has Gone Mainstream

One of the accusations that members of the Radical Right would often direct toward Bush opponents is, "Well, you're just saying that because you hate Bush." In other words, they would somehow try to attack Bush haters for . . . hating George W. Bush.

I never really understood that particular strategy. Perhaps my hatred was blinding me from the genius of such a line of attack.

Well, things sure have changed. In fact, so many people currently despise Bush that the GOP can no longer use hatred for our Deserter-In-Chief as an anti-liberal talking point. From the Stamford Advocate:

"Hating the war and hating Bush have become everyday emotions, and [Lamont] represents them a lot better than Joe Lieberman does," said Fred Barnes, executive editor of the conservative magazine The Weekly Standard and co-host of the Fox News Channel show "The Beltway Boys."

I love that quote. It not only points out that hating Bush is now as American as apple pie, but it also shows that Fred Barnes and other members of the Extreme Right just don't get it when it comes to Joe Lieberman.

Lieberman isn't in trouble simply because he supported the Iraq War. Hell, lots of Democrats supported the Iraq Debacle. No, Lieberman is in trouble because he was among BushCo's loudest cheerleaders on that issue.

Indeed, at the last State of the Union address, Lieberman was the first member of Congress -- not merely the first Democrat, but the first member of Congress -- to rise to his feet and applaud Bush's statement about staying the course in Iraq. When you pull crap like that, you should expect that you might piss off a few people.

Something tells me, however, that Lieberman will nonetheless pull off a win in tomorrow's Connecticut primary. It'll be close, but I think he'll do it. Sure, I know the polls are showing a big Lamont lead, but the actual exit polling in the 2004 election showed Kerry won the presidency by a large margin, so forgive me if I don't have much faith in polls anymore.