The Hits Just Keep On Coming (Update)

"Disgruntled," "total crap," "upset," "traitor," "turncoat," "Hamas apologist" are just some of the words the right wing is flinging at Scott McClellan. Yesterday morning before the day even started, I thought about writing a quick post about some of the things the right wing would do to try and discredit McClellan. Unleashing Fox News and Rush Limbaugh is the most obvious. Calling him a traitor and terrorist sympathizer is like predicting the Pope to be a Catholic. The right wing brand of attacking any one, even a Bush loyalist, because they don't walk the party line at all times is one of the easiest political scenarios to ever predict. I could have in a just a couple minutes time written out every tactic the right would use to attack Scottie. It would have been the easiest thing I've done in two years. But like Seth Leibsohn says, it would have been me stating the obvious. And when something's obvious why write it down?

This is how the right wing behaves. For 8 years this all we have ever seen from Bush and his cronies. Any deviation from the party line is seen as treason, as enemy action. Anyone who dares speak out against their government, or albeit, against our Grand Anointed Leader is a terrorist sympathizing traitor.

This is also how the right wing governs. There is no more cohesive a time for the GOP as when they are attacking someone for speaking out against their incompetency. It's all blatantly obvious that Bush is the least popular president in modern history. There is no denying that. The right wing is more interested in personal attacks than any sort of governing policy for this country. With 8 months left to a two term presidency, we have still yet to have an established foreign policy, any sort of energy policy whatsoever, and not one single domestic policy for this country. They are not interested in governing. What they do best, and really all they do, is run hate filled attack machines against anyone who may question why in the world we are still waiting on the president to do his job.

Throughout this entire election cycle we've seen the GOP fight amongst itself for a nominee. John McCain is hardly the person they settled on but more the person they were given. Limbaugh has called McCain the worst thing to happen to the GOP. Malkin is refusing to support him. Ron Paul still pulls 10% of the vote. And right wingers everywhere are dissatisfied with McCain. But when someone speaks out against Leader Bush and his incompetency the machine comes together quicker than Larry Craig running to the bathroom. This is when the right wing is at their best. It's like a fusion bond that pulls the right wing together. This is how it's been for 8 years. And there's no reason to believe that it will simply change by electing McCain.

*Update:

Here's what a 2004 Bush-Cheney campaign director has to say about Scottie:

"Feeling for Scott McLellan. Nice getting savaged for saying what everyone knows to be true anyway."

Seriously, that sums up entirely all the right wing has to say. It's not that what Scottie says in his book isn't true, it's just the fact that he said it. In the GOP you aren't allowed to speak your mind. You aren't allowed to dissent against our Grand Leader. Their imposition that everyone in the world just blindly follow everything they say is expected at all times. And for almost 8 years the entire world has been subject to the brown shirts in the GOP. Finally, finally, their right wing tactics aren't working anymore. What still amazes me, though, is the right wing's support of a president with the lowest approval ratings in modern history.

h/t Matt Stoller