Michael Moore Feels the Love

Republicans are hugging Michael Moore. Hugging. What's going on here?

Okay, granted, we only have Moore's word for it, but it sounds kind of plausible. Moore tells Reuters that "If you were to hang out with me here it won't be five or 10 minutes before you see a Republican hug me."

And why is this happening?

The Reuters piece states that "Some in solidly Republican northern Michigan and elsewhere now believe that they made a "colossal mistake" in initially supporting the war in Iraq, Moore said, and they have let him know it in chance encounters on the streets of Traverse City, a resort town where he has relocated from New York."

Hmmmm... Michael Moore, Al Franken and Ann Coulter have all relocated from New York. Do you think they know something that I don't?

But I digress.

I think that the change in attitude towards Moore is emblematic of a change in the popular attitude towards this administration in general and in their atrocious foreign policy in particular. It seems to me that people, even supposedly conservative Republicans, have caught on to what has happened in this country over the past five years.

Take William F. Buckley Jr., the doyen of modern conservatism, saying of President Bush that: "If you had a European prime minister who experienced what we've experienced, it would be expected that he would retire or resign."

Take Charles Barkley, who is switching parties and planning to run for Governor of Alabama as a Democrat because "I was a Republican until they lost their minds."

People have finally realized that this is the worst administration is modern history. They finally get it. And I think they want to do something about it.

The midterm elections can't come soon enough for me.

Tom Moran