I've occasionally seen wingnuts say Hillary is the official candidate of hardcore lefties. I always assumed these rants are coming from retirement homes with good internet access, along with those tirades about the New Deal and that rat bastard FDR. But now Erick at Redstate claims Markos, Jane, and Armando are poised to crush Obama.
Erick humiliates himself in The Online Left vs. Obama: They've Been In Hillary's Pocket All Along. Mind you Erick is the CEO of RedState a fairly Serious Person, and a blogger, so I'm sure he's considered a pretty hip dude, even for a Republican.
Surprisingly, most of the comments ridicule Erick and nobody gets banned. Wow, RedState usually smites people pretty freely, so Erick knew he screwed up. We even get a post from Box Turtle Ben supporting Erick. You can almost hear the frantic call from Erick to Ben: Ben, I said something really really stupid. Worse than 2006. Ben I need you to log in and bail me out. You got my back? I owe you one buddy.
Humiliating quotes and sardonic comments after the jump:
First, there's the silly diary itself. Clearly, Erick has been reading too much stuff about liberals while
By and large, the online left hates Obama......There are a few reasons for this. For one, Obama is no Ned Lamont. He's a dazzling, rising star of the left, but unlike Lamont, Obama is not a product of the online left.....In fact, Obama's relations with bloggers have been frosty and he hasn't spent much time stroking their egos......the online left has been in bed with Hillary Clinton for a good long while, and they have a vested interest in defeating Obama. If Obama is defeated, they can maintain the fiction a little longer that the online movement is a vital part of the cause.....It puts the online left in bed with Jesse Jackson and against Al Sharpton.Unfortunately for the left, time is running out. Obama is winning. He is advancing. They are going to have to unleash hell on Obama now to hurt him. And they are going to have to pressure superdelegates to go with Hillary.....Many Republicans, including me, have thought all along that we were screwed this year. More and more, it's looking like the Democrats may rescue us from our hopelessness and screw themselves in the process.
Apparently Erick has been subletting the Unabomber's shack in the woods.
One guy is willing to cheer, but that's about it.
Ah Lamont by absentee
One of life's great pleasures is seeing the nutroots denied whatever it is they think they're entitled to. Nut Lamont's defeat was a decadent, candied, chocolate-covered pleasure of the first order. It is a similar thrill to see them floundering about the primaries.
Dream on monkey boy
But wait, a skeptic calls Erick out
I'm not sure about the rules here for linking through to kos, but a quick glance at any comment thread over there makes it pretty clear for whom 90% of the folks over there are rooting, and it ain't Hillary. In addition, Huff Po is hardly a haven of anti-Obama fervor, although there are more Hillary supporters there than kos (I don't believe it's even a majority there, though).
Erick tries to tough it out
Kos, TalkLeft, Stoller, by Erick
Kos, TalkLeft, Stoller, Armstrong, Hamsher, Atrios -- all the big names are down on Obama.
Fight On!
Another skeptic speaks up, but the Box Turtle swoops to the rescue!
not sure i agree by jmjessemac
I'm a liberal lurker so i usually don't post on this site. However, I have to wonder what planet you've been on, Erik. I read a lot of lefty sites and mydd is the only one that I can think of that has an obvious pro-Hillary format. Don't you have enough to worry about without adding liberal websites to your list?
Although, considering that you've stated that the main reason liberals have more popular blogs is because they have free time due to their abortions while conservatives have families, I'm not sure too many people outside this small community would take you seriously.
I'm amazed you've lurked for so long by Ben Domenech
Considering the level of political insight and wit you've been holding back from us. Please, do engage more!
Erick still tries to salvage this mess
There is a difference by Erick
There is a difference between the readers/users of online sites and the leadership of those same sites. The latter group is in Hillary's pocket, even though they take pains to stress otherwise.
Fight On!
Ben also tries to divide the baby
My own view by Ben Domenech
I do think there's a level of resentment among the leadership of the online left for the fact that Obama has done what he's done in spite of, and often in contest with, the gatekeepers of the netroots..............
But even the faithful are not persuaded
The online left LOVES Barack Obama by Fatimahbrown
Loony site Moveon.org endorsed Barack Obama. The most popular loony left diary, Daily Kos, is overwhelmingly pro-Obama.
The Nation, DemocraticUnderground for the most part is pro-Obama.
At first they supported UFO-believer Dennis Kucinich. Then they went with Edwards, and then they jumped on the Obama bandwagon.
Obama is a liberal, but we are hurting our chances by painting him as an enemy of the left.
I guess the real question is what the hell has happened to these guys?