Joe Trippi, architect of Howard Dean's antiwar strategy, was just on MSNBC lauding the Iraqi citizen journalists who brought the birth of democracy in their land onto our computer screens. The United Nations is running Blogads on InstaPundit and other major blogs stating "No one will ever again get 100% of the vote. Free elections in Iraq. The U.N. is there."
To all who have spontaneously decided to join the cause of Iraqi democracy in the space of the last twenty four hours, welcome! Take your coat off and stay a while.
The polls have just closed, but the ankle-biters are already chomping down a lot of crow. Of particular interest is that U.N. ad -- No one will ever again get 100% of the vote? Has Fidel suddenly been declared persona non grata at Turtle Bay? Can this be taken as a brand new U.N. policy to opposing dictatorially-rigged elections everywhere, all the time?
One can hope, but I wouldn't hold my breath if I were you.
This bandwagon jumping won't be a long lived or widespread trend. Most on the left will choose to ignore or downplay the happy news of today, choosing instead to get it behind them as quickly as possible.