MOONBATS JUMP THE SHARK

Hear that wonderful sound – the sound of liberal teeth gnashing?

How does that old crooner tune go?  "It was desperation, I know…"  OK, maybe Dinah Shore back in 1957 said "fascination,"  but Moveon.org sang an updated version in their full-page New York Times ad calling the commander of our soldiers in Iraq a traitor.

Desperation City, folks.  I love to see liberals living in it.  All that sweet taste of thumpin' they gave the hated Republicans last November has turned to ashes and bile.  The Moonbat Left is so consumed with rage and frustration it's jumped the shark.

Back in the ‘70s there was a very popular tv show called Happy Days.  The star was Henry Winkler who played "The Fonze," Arthur Fonzarelli.  By the fall of 1977, it was starting its fourth season with falling ratings and writers running out of plot lines.  In a desperate bid to ratchet the ratings back up, an episode depicted Fonzie water-skiing in swimming trunks and his trademark leather jacket.

He skis up a ramp and over a shark in the water.  The scene was so over-the-top unbelievable that it became the archetype for desperate off-the-wall attempts to save a dying cause.  Such attempts have ever since been derisively condemned as jumping the shark.

(You can watch a video clip of the actual Fonzie-jumping-the-shark scene here.)

That's what the Moonbats have done with the "General Betray Us" ad – and that's what the Democrats in Congress have done by their cowardly refusal to condemn it.

After something has jumped the shark, there's nowhere to go but down, all the way to crash and burn.  Smearing the military does not endear you to voters, however much the intellectual leaders of the Democrat Party are still living in Vietnam war protest days of decades ago.

The Betray Us ad will solidify in voters' minds the realization that the Democrats want America to lose – just like they wanted us to lose in Vietnam.  But not just in Iraq.  The realization will now sink in that Democrats want America to lose across the board, economically, culturally, militarily, in most any way one can imagine.

All the Democrats have to sell are defeat, fear, and bad news – plus their traditional solutions for any perceived problem:  higher taxes and more government control over your life.

Thus any good news for America and the world is bad news for them. 

Take this just-released UPI-Zogby poll revealing that Americans believe the US is safer from terrorism now than before 9/11.  What's worse for the Dems is the poll found that 60% of Americans feel that why the US hasn't been attacked since 2001 "is a direct result of US government actions" – i.e., the actions of President George Bush.

Or the 2007 State of the Future report issued by the UN this week (9/9), stating that:

"Despite daunting challenges posed by global warming, water, energy, unemployment and terrorism, the world faces a brighter future with fewer wars, higher life expectancy,  improved literacy…" and world poverty by 2015 half what it was in 2000.

This is not a good time for all-is-lost doomsaying Democrat pessimism.

It's so bad that even their fear-mongering trump card, "global warming," has now had a jump-the-shark moment.  Sitting down?  Then get ready for the laugh of the day reading this AP "breaking medical news story":  Eating Less Meat May Slow Climate Change. 

Or how about this humiliation for the glo-warmers:  USAToday came out this week with The Top 25 Biggest News Stories of the Past Quarter-Century.   Scroll down the list:  #1 is the Fall of Communism, #2 is 9/11, #12 is the Death of Diana, #24 is Gay Marriage, and so on.

But guess what?  Global Warming is not on the list!  It's not even there at all as even one of the most important stories since 1982, much less Numero Uno – it's Numero Nada.

It is so over for the moonbats – and they know it.

The wonderful sound of moonbat teeth-gnashing is so soothingly satisfying because it's not going to stop but keep getting louder.  These folks are going to grind their teeth to the gums in agony over their impotence.  Yes, impotence, because they know there's not a thing they can do to get Congress to "stop the war."

Oh, the agony of not having the votes in Congress to defund the war and force America to lose in Iraq as Congress was able to do in Vietnam.  America winning in Iraq??!!  How hideously insufferable!  And Bush will get the credit for America's victory!

These people are in real pain right now.  Doesn't that make you feel all warm and fuzzy?  Looks like no Happy Days for the moonbats in 2008.

Note:  I know what my Sigma Nu fraternity brother at UCLA, Jerry McLain would say about this – for he wrote and performed the Happy Days Theme Song for the show.  He'd say the show wasn't canceled after Fonz jumped the shark but went on for another 100 episodes.  And that's where this analogy ends.  No renewal for Hate America Democrats next November.