***Update: Here’s the column….scroll down for excerpt…***

Nutroots target David Broder–new member of the VRWC?

Since “Important Action Alert” is trademarked by MyDD, a TPM blogger has issued a “BLOGSWARM ALERT!” rousing the nutroots over a column by diehard liberal David Broder that hasn’t even appeared in print yet:

Blogswarm alert!

It looks as if David Broder’s column tomorrow may be making the rather creative case that Harry Reid is as inept as…Alberto Gonzales.

How do I know this? Over at the Dallas Morning News, which prints Broder’s column from time to time, they’ve done a teaser on the paper’s blog previewing the Op-ed columns the paper is running tomorrow…Okay — we should absolutely reserve judgment until we see what the man actually wrote, of course…

So, um, why the “BLOGSWARM ALERT!”? The preemptive rage bubbles and the frenzy has been whipped:

Yesterday Broder bashed Reid during a radio interview for saying the war is “lost,” insisting that “about every six weeks or so there’s another episode where he has to apologize for the way in which he has bungled the Democratic case.” Fine, Reid’s line was clumsy and could have been more artfully done. But Broder’s assertion that Reid has had to apologize “every six weeks” is flat-out false.

Will Broder repeat it? And if so, when do we get to stop calling him the “Dean” and start calling him inept?

If the comments at the TPM blog are any indication, the Washington Post is in for another nutroots avalanche:

I spy with my little an eye a word that starts with U.

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Flashback: Here’s a Broder column on Rove Derangement Syndrome from last fall that earned him the wrath of the far Left.

Update: Here’s an excerpt from the Broder column…

…consider the mental gyrations performed by Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) as he rationalized the recent comment from his majority leader, Harry Reid, the leading light of Searchlight, Nev., that the war in Iraq “is lost.”

On “Fox News Sunday,” Schumer offered this clarification of Reid’s off-the-cuff comment. “What Harry Reid is saying is that this war is lost — in other words, a war where we mainly spend our time policing a civil war between Shiites and Sunnis. We are not going to solve that problem. . . . The war is not lost. And Harry Reid believes this — we Democrats believe it. . . . So the bottom line is if the war continues on this path, if we continue to try to police and settle a civil war that’s been going on for hundreds of years in Iraq, we can’t win. But on the other hand, if we change the mission and have that mission focus on the more narrow goal of counterterrorism, we sure can win.”

Everyone got that? This war is lost. But the war can be won. Not since Bill Clinton famously pondered the meaning of the word “is” has a Democratic leader confused things as much as Harry Reid did with his inept discussion of the alternatives in Iraq.

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