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From this brilliant analysis of the left blogosphere's demise at Anglachel's Journal (which I would recommend reading in it's entirety as opposed to my ramblings):

A few days ago I wrote up my disgust about the willingness of some people to go along with what seems a very clear ratfucking operation by the Republicans involving a tasty mix of misogyny, racism and anti-Muslim sentiments. What I also want to make clear is that should this particular attack continue – and it will – and should others of this kind surface and gain traction against Obama, then that part of the left that eagerly embraced a reprise of the MSM assault on the Clinton White House and the Gore presidential run have no ground to stand on. You whored your brains, your logic and your leftist credentials out to the bottom feeders of the right to try to gain a little advantage for your candidate and in the doing you have undermined him and every Democrat running for national office. You cried ”Yes, yes!” to painting millions of Americans as racists, you turned a blind eye to grotesque misogyny, you prostituted the corpse of a dead man to spread a lie, you eagerly defended nullifying votes of people in Michigan and denying full representation to Florida to rig the vote for your candidate, you continue to threaten to riot if anyone denies you what you want.

Here’s a little secret. If Obama has run an aboveboard campaign, if the Democratic Party leadership hauled off and slapped Chris Matthews et. al. silly for their Clinton Derangement Syndrome, had the Blogger Boyz been able to argue for their candidate without getting scoops from Matt Drudge, the chances are very good that he might have won in a squeaker. And then he would be poised to put together a Unity ticket, because the other candidate would not have been declared a monster and her supporters would, after the usual grumbling, have willingly thrown full support behind the ticket. At worst, he would have been second by a nose, and everyone would have been very happy to give him the VP slot.

Whatever one can say of Hillary, she was not and never has been the beneficiary of the rightwing noise machine. Obama has benefited from the cooptation of the MSM and now the willing capitulation of the opposition netroots to that operation, behaving like extensions of Drudge, Scaife and Murdoch. If you support Obama, you are all right with that.

Well, are you?

This makes me think of something Joe Wilson said on Monday night. I went up to Santa Fe to listen to Wilson, his wife Valerie Plame and fired US Attorney, David Iglesias. Wilson spoke of "true" Republicans and how they should not tolerate the things their party is doing. He spoke of their core principles and beliefs and how they've been destroyed by modern day pols. This made me think of my own party. Who benefits from Democrats sitting idling by watching their own party's destructive behavior? Should Wilson's advice apply to us? For example, do we sit idly by while we know of all the evidence of how this primary election was rigged to expunge the evil Clintons? I will say, while off topic, that the most fascinating piece of information that night was when Wilson told us that a Republican Congressman they were friends with told them that the first thing Newt Gingrich instructed Republicans elected to Congress in the Class of 94 was that they were not allowed to speak to Democrats, at all, for 90 days, they were setting a "tone". Back on topic, from Documentary Proof of RBC's "Stop Hillary" Corruption:

A document included as an exhibit in the Nelson vs Dean Lawsuit that was filed in October 2007 in an attempt to force the DNC to seat the Florida delegation provides indisputable proof that the Democratic National Committee’s Rules and Bylaws Committee singled out Florida and Michigan for sanctions, and ignored violations of Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina. The document is a tentative list of state primaries and caucuses, and is dated September 13, 2007. The listing for Florida says (“P” designates a primary)

1/29/08 Florida P Date of state primary; date violates rules; Non-Complia

But there are also listings for the four pre-window states, that note that these states cannot move their dates before the date set in the Delegate Selection Rules: (“C” designates a caucus)

1/14/08 Iowa…………………C Allowed to go no more than 22 days before 2/5/08
1/19/08 Nevada………………C Allowed to go no more than 17 days before 2/5/08
1/22/08 New Hampshire…P Allowed to go no more than 14 days before 2/5/08
1/29/08 South Carolina….P Allowed to go no more than 7 days before 2/5/08

(The whole page can be seen here. The entire PDF document submitted to the courts (which includes the DNC and RNC delegates selection rules as Exhibits A and C) can be accessed here.)

and

It is clear that the RBC violated its own rules for political reasons – to stop Hillary Clinton. Without the opportunity to beat Clinton in one of the early states in a meaningful primary or caucus, Clinton’s advantages going into Super- Tuesday would have been impossible to beat. The corrupt officials of the RBC were part of a “stop Hillary” movement, and chose to ignore their own rules in order to make it possible for someone other than Hillary Clinton to get the nomination, and the complete and utter corruption of James Roosevelt, Alexis Herman, Alice Germond and the rest of Obama’s supporters on the RBC is no longer in doubt.

Your thoughts? PUMA?