I hate to say it, but the moonbats and wackadoos got a little bit less, well, moonbatty.
Friday's Salt Lake Tribune has an article that acknowledges the 60% disapproval rating for our occupation into Iraq, and reaches the inevitable conclusion: that when support for the war is no longer mainstream, it becomes fringe. Fringe, baby! (Read on!)
Similarly, when the war in Iraq began in 2003, only about one-quarter of Americans disapproved of President Bush's Iraq policies. But by this month, the trend had reversed, with 60 percent of Americans telling CNN pollsters that they oppose the war and savvy politicians rushing to stake out an antiwar claim before it's too late. (To paraphrase Kerry, who knows a thing or two about this, who wants to be the last politician to go down for failing to admit the war in Iraq was a mistake?)
Opposing the war in Iraq isn't fringe anymore -- it has become part of what defines ordinary Americans.
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Mainstream Americans are tired of watching young Americans come home in coffins from an unnecessary war, tired of reckless foreign policies that have increased rather than decreased the threat of terrorism and really, really tired of incumbents who still don't get it.
The article also uses the Lamont win to call out Jonah Goldberg and the New York Daily News. It's a short read, and somewhat refreshing when you need a break from the MSM.