I don't know if anyone in the blogosphere watches Hardball, Capital Gang or any of the punditry shows. The word is starting to trickle in that Dean has pretty much wrapped up getting the DNC chair position.
It was positively heartwarming to see the liberal pundits like Margaret Carlson, Al Hunt, and Mark Shields backpedal faster than Lance Armstrong going downhill backwards in the Alps.
Read on for more hilarity:
Paraphrasing the weeks leading up to the DNC Chair race on the Capital Gang:
B.D.E.W.D.N.C.C. (Before Dean Essentially Won the DNC Chairmanship):
M. Carlson: Blah, blah, blah, Dean, scream, wack job, loony lefty, bad choice for the party.
Shields: Blah, blah, blah, George McGovern, blah, blah, he's no Tim Roemer.
Hunt: I'm a little less wry, but essentially I agree with Maggie and Mark.
This really happened tonight on Capital Gang:
A.D.E.W.D.N.C.C.:
M. Carlson: Dean, great reformer, model of a centrist, brings needed energy to the party, a great choice.
Shields: He's impressive, has harnessed the grassroots, can I be the first pundit to kiss his ass now?
Hunt: After repudiating delusional Robert Novak and Katie "RNC Message Discipline" O'Beirne, who both appear absolutely terrified of Dean winning the DNC Chair, I essentially agree with Maggie and Mark.
Next up (I hope): a full apology, and admission of wrongdoing, from Chris Matthews, Marie Coco, Gloria Borgia, and other people who were essentially writing Dean off for DNC chair.
I'd love to see that:
Matthews: I've brought all you people here to basically say that we were basically a bunch of losers giving the DNC chair race to anybody but Howard Dean, who I love, but I also hate.
Coco: Hee hee! Yes, I made a fool of myself by saying that Howard Dean would never become the DNC chair four weeks ago. What an ass I was!
Matthews: You're absolutely right Marie, and I agree with you. And I am no less culpable in this heinous infringement.
Trippi: Hey guys, did you know I have an unbeleivable knack for picking guys that lose elections, and jumping off the bandwagon as soon as I have a chance to get real political power? 0-for-2004, 0-for-2005, Chris!
Carville: Ah know ah'm on another network, but ah just want to say me and the guys at Al's crawfish shack love screamin' Howard Dean, and we always loved him!
Although interchanges like this are just Deaniac fantasies, for one I cannot wait for the next round of punditry now that Dean has essentially wrapped things up. None of the pundits, liberal or conservative, gave Dean a chance.
I'd like to say I'm too big to gloat, or too important to not revel in the agony of the pundits after they're forced to backflip. But I'm not. I want to see the sycophants squirm and backflip to get with the Dean program.
This is why I fell in love with the Dean movement in 2004, and now that we're seeing the change hit the fan, I am absolutely thrilled. It's as if I got up there and smacked these jokers around.