Has anyone noticed that the right-wing blogosphere seems to have gotten a little weird lately? I mean, they’ve always been an atrocious lot of paranoids and bigots, but lately they’ve been going off on tangents that are totally unrelated to the upcoming elections. Their hallucinatory obsession with the #twittergulag is only one piece of evidence that Mitt Romney’s successful campaign for the nomination has made them lose interest in conventional politics. Their main focus of late has been on demonizing a couple of liberal activists that, because they are not actually very consequential, I had never heard of before. I don’t say that to insult the victims of this right-wing smear campaign; I’m just pointing out that the nutters’ energies don’t seem to be calibrated very well. Destroying ACORN made sense. Destroying a couple of dudes named Brett Kimberlin and Neal Rauhauser will accomplish nothing. And, amusingly, the only one who has so far wound up in jail is the main wingnut leading the charge against them.
I think the real problem is that no one in the wingnut blogosphere actually has anything good to say about Romney and they’ve already maxed out on the anti-Obama stuff. What’s left to do or talk about? They are picking over scraps at this point. Dan Rather was a long time ago.