Victor Davis Hanson says that the media and Obama supporters are reaching the point of meltdown:
What we are seeing is a sort of meltdown in which the selection of Palin is associated with the first real possibility all summer that the messianic Obama may not necessarily ascend; that triggers a certain repulsion toward her in particular, and a general furor at the once likeable McCain (once likeable to present-day Obama’s supporters in the past sense that in 2000 he was going to lose, perhaps divide Republicans, and was not George Bush), which, in turn, can conjure up all sorts of no longer latent demons, going back to Vietnam onto to Iraq and the ongoing war in Afghanistan.
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The problem (inter alia) with this vicious, loose use of “traitor” and “lie/liar/lying” and blanket condemnations of the US military is that it achieves the opposite of what the authors intend — and repelling most readers to such a degree that they are scared off from anything the writer seems to be advocating.
As Hanson points out, didn’t anyone learn from the attempt at trashing General Petraeus? It's becoming increasingly clear that the leftists have not heeded the warning that this type criticism will carry with it a relentless backlash. Looks to me the moveon.org folks have not learned a thing from their Gen. Petraeus experiment.
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