Is that all you got?
The Moonbat Left
Is that all you got?
By Dr. Jack Wheeler
Thursday, March 22, 2007
The Democrat Party is in thrall, we're told, of the mighty power of the Moonbat Left, with its millions of passionate adherents all ruthlessly organized via MoveOn.org to bring doom to any politician who dares oppose them.
Their strength would literally be on parade, they boasted, in the nation's capital in a glorious resurrection of the left's finest moment of anti-war protest forty years ago. More than a hundred thousand of them would march on the Pentagon, humbling their arrogant warmongering government over Iraq as their parents and grandparents once did over Vietnam.
Why they chose March 17, 2007 as the "40th Anniversary" of the legendary-to-them March on the Pentagon is mysterious, as the latter took place on October 21, 1967.
By that date, 13,000 Americans had died in the Vietnam War, the hippie drug culture was in full swing, and the possibility that stoned hippie college kids could be drafted and added to that number of war deaths ignited protest firestorms.
So on that October day 40 years ago, well over 100,000 lefties, cheered on by Jane Fonda, Noam Chomsky, and Abbie Hoffman, marched from the Lincoln Memorial over Memorial Bridge and down to the Pentagon, where they were met by 2,500 armed Army soldiers.
There was anger but also humor. Amidst the "End the War Now!" protest signs were ones addressed to President Lyndon Johnson: "LBJ, Pull Out Now Like Your Father Should Have Done." Hippie chicks put flowers in the soldiers' rifle barrels. Hippie leader Abbie Hoffman wore an Uncle Sam hat and led an "exorcism" to drive out the "evil war spirits" from the Pentagon.
Lefty author Norman Mailer wrote a book about it, The Armies of the Night, which however poorly and egomaniacally written, won a Pulitzer Prize.
No one, not even as awful a writer as Mailer, is going to write a book about the pathetic fizzle of this last Saturday. What a bust.
Oh, there were thousands of demonstrators, all right - flag waving patriotic Americans who had come from all over their country to stand up for it and stand against the commie pinko pantywaists. The real news of this Protest March on the Pentagon is that there were more of us than there were of them.
Funny how the media isn't reporting that, eh?
I was standing on the curb on the Lincoln Memorial side of the street across from where the protesters began their march over Memorial Bridge. I saw the entire march pass by me, and would estimate there were not many more than 5,000. The organizers predicted 100,000.
All of us were remarking to each other in amazement and derision, "There're more of us than them." One grizzled Vietnam Vet exclaimed joyously, "I've waited 30 years to see this."
I do have to tell you, though, that the number Michelle Malkin and others are claiming of 30,000 pro-America counter-demonstrators is a wild exaggeration. I walked around the entire area three times, from the Gathering of Eagles rally on the east side of the Vietnam Wall Memorial to the anti-war demo on the other side at 23rd and Constitution.
We had more than 5,000, more than the other side, but nowhere remotely close to 30K.
I also have to tell you how much fun it was to taunt the commie pinkos. On our side, almost everyone was waving a flag. On their side, hardly an American flag was to be seen. The flag of Castro's Cuba was waved more often among them than America's - along with pictures of Che Guevara.
So it was fun to wave the Stars & Stripes at them and call out, "Where's your flag, traitors?" This really got to them. One guy got so enraged he charged across the narrow street at me with murderous hate in his eyes. He was quickly hauled back by a helmeted policeman. It made the guy even madder that I was laughing my head off.
But after the last of them shuffled over Memorial Bridge, I was shaking my head, pleasantly dumfounded at their shabby little showing. Is this the best the anti-war crowd can do? Is this the best the moonbats have got?
No wonder Jane Fonda was a no-show. All the protestors got was Cindy Sheehan, who spoke to a scattering of weak applause. Any leader of the '67 March would have to look upon this small collection of lame losers and think this attempt to copy-cat them was a sad joke.
This could be a tipping point, folks. Last November, the media conned the voters into thinking these sad, bitter folks who hate their country and want it to lose against the terrorists were on a roll holding the bandwagon's reins. They won't be able to do that again.
Every Blue Dog conservative Democrat in Congress right now is realizing, after this silly little protest, that they don't have to put up with MoveOn.org intimidation anymore. They may even realize they don't have to put up with Pelosi Galore's bullying, or Traitor John Murtha's bluster any more either.
The Moonbat Left lost big time last Saturday. What a wonderful St. Patrick's Day. I was privileged to be there to witness it - and proud to be among all the veterans and patriots who stood up to the hate-your-country crowd and shut them down.
Hey, moonbats - is that all you got?
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