Die, disingenuous Democrats, die!!

Michael Bérubé writes:

Ed Koch's endorsement of Bush was amazingly powerful. For those of you who aren't familiar with Ed, he's the guy who ran for Mayor of New York in 1977 on the slogan, "Westway Must Never Be Built," and then, within minutes of taking his hand off the Bible, realized that Westway kicked ass and should definitely be built-- while the city went about the important business of closing a couple of municipal hospitals in Harlem. Not every politician would have had the courage of his convictions on this-- most ordinary New York Democrat machine pols would've stuck with the platform that got them in. But not Koch-- he bucked the system in '77, man, and he's still buckin' today. For a quarter century, the name "Ed Koch" has been synonymous with integrity and rectitude. He's a beacon of sanity and light in dark times. If he says George Bush is our man, I think Democrats should sit up straight and listen.

And then McCain. What is there to say about McCain? McCain is McCain. The quintessential maverick, quintessentially mavericking all those other sucker-quintessential pseudo-mavericks who try to bring that weak shit to the hole. When he called Michael Moore a "disingenuous filmmaker," I realized that my own piddling critiques of Moore were so much dust in the wind. As McCain explained in his post-game interview with CNBC, Michael Moore's film suggested that Iraq under Saddam was some kind of Biblical paradise, and that's so wrong it's just . . . just . . . disingenuous, is what it is. Isn't it weird that Democrats won't say anything bad about Saddam? Rock on, John. The disingenuous must die!! Die, disingenuous Democrats, die!!

Michael Bérubé
(liberal, elite AND ironic)