It's hard being right

I have written and erased any number of posts in regards to Michael Barone and the piece by Jonah Goldberg as to the triumph of the right wing blogs in bringing down Eason Jordan. Let me sum up points I would have made and then move on as the topic is tiring.

1) You on the right all love each other very much, and I'm sure your hard work will bring down the media and leave you with nothing to blog about. Good luck on that.

2) While the right has spent the last few weeks destroying Jordan, the left (Gannon distraction aside) has laid into the President's privatization plan and brought it to it's knees. So the right brings down a guy no one has really heard of for remarks no one really cared about while the left has brought down an idea that would have destroyed a program that affects everyone. I'd give the advantage to the left.

3) The right, high in power in both the government and the media (see FOX News) seem unable to rest until they bring down everyone on the left. Why are they better at it, Goldberg asks. Simple. They've been doing it for years, and Democrats seem to have a hard time developing a taste for it.

4) Um, what they said, too.

5) For Barone: In response to your claim that the left is a circus of hate, have you ever read Ann Coulter? How about WorldNet Daily? They're on your side, you know. And just because I read a site doesn't mean I have to agree with everything said there. And you serve as the perfect example.

That's all I have to say for now.

*UPDATE* Ezra Klein says more:

Funnily enough, its their obsession with "scalps" that has actually reduced their effectiveness. While Kos and Atrios raise hundreds of thousands for their chosen candidates, their conservative counterparts are rain-dancing around the latest functionary to resign. While Matt Yglesias and Josh Marshall are helping sink the privatization plan, Instapundit and the gang are fulminating over obscure academics.

As you can tell, I agree with his point on the privatization plan, but their obsession with scalps is scary nonetheless. I fear, perhaps irrationally, that it is only a matter of time before they start hunting the "bigger game," finding out of context quotes to twist at their will to attack Senators and Representatives. While they may have a number of small fish on their wall now, it is only a matter of time before they shoot for the moon.

While I try to casually dismiss their attacks on those that have little import in the world, I can only hope they are not trial runs for future destruction.