Slow Trainwreck Coming

Brad R. has a fine roundup of some of the more obscure wingnuts on MondalePlutoNash62Mets Media (TM). And yet, I don’t think any of them can quite reach the heights of this comment from more established OSM (TM) wingnut Dean Esmay, discovered by a commenter at Open Source Poor Man:

I still believe that George W. Bush was the only progressive liberal running for President in 2000, and have no regrets whatsoever in having voted for him.

Well, a conception of “progressive liberalism” that excludes Al Gore but includes Bush’s combination of selectively applied cultural auhtoritarianism and use of the public fisc as a giant kickback operation for monied interests is certainly, ah, unique. (And remember: this is in the 2000 campaign, when Bush was running as an anti-nation-building realist, so he doesn’t even have the alleged relationship between the Iraq War and expanding liberalism to fall back on.) But think of the great OSM stories we have to look forward to:

• “I Still Believe James McReynolds Was the Only Progressive Liberal on the Supreme Court in 1936.”
• “I Still Believe That George Wallace Was the Only Progressive Liberal Running For President in 1968.”
• “I Still Believe That William Taft Was the Only Progressive Liberal, and the Only Thin Man, Running For President in 1912.”
• “I Still Believe That Tom Coburn is the Only Progressive Liberal in the United States Senate.”
• “I Still Believe That Zell Miller is the Only Progressive Liberal in the Democratic Party.”
• “I Still Believe That Ringo Was the Only Talented Songwriter the Beatles Had.”
• “I Still Believe That George Pipgras Was the Only Quality Hitter on the 1927 Yankees.”

That’ll show the MSM!