‘afternoon, Lizards.

So I’ve been thinking, the way that sane conservatives (yes, they exist, just as dissidents now: Andrew Sullivan, Bruce Bartlett, Daniel Larison, etc.) viewed Cruz’s idiocy and that tea party rally that he an Caribou Barbie addressed must be the way I viewed the idiocy of International ANSWER during the anti-war rallies of 2002 and 2003. I was against the Iraq War, because I feared that all the things that did come true would come true: Iraq would descend into bloody fratricide a la Yugoslavia, the Bush administration was arrogant and incompetent, we’d lose focus in the real fight against al Qaeda, etc. But there weren’t enough facepalms for all the stupidity I saw at anti-war rallies, and their striking similarity to tea party rallies: Soviet flags instead of Confederate ones, Hitler mustaches on Bush instead of Obama, a whole range of disparate, incoherent demands that didn’t reflect coherent thought so much as primal rage, a rag-tag bunch of nuts claiming to speak for the whole country.

Congrats, tea party: you are the right’s answer to International ANSWER. And your natural allies are the ones most horrified by the stupidity.