So the Evil, Fascist, Cheney/Rove/Bu$hCo Regime is just going to go quietly?

With the economy in a downward spiral, U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan and the nation under threat from terrorists, President Bush pledged Saturday to make a smooth transition to an Obama administration a top priority for the rest of his days in office.

This will no doubt cause some cognitive dissonance among all the BDS-sufferers* out there. What are all the poor hate-filled souls at places like The Daily Kos, Think Progress, The Huffington Post, The NY Times and MSNBC going to do when their nemesis is back enjoying his life in Texas?

From the AP:

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin called her critics cowards and jerks Friday for deriding her anonymously and insisted she never asked for the expensive wardrobe purchased for her use on the presidential campaign.

She’s right, and the “journalists” who are repeating this nonsense are as bad as the anonymous attackers they’re quoting. The obvious campaigning for Barack Obama by the DeMSM was bad enough, but this isn’t journalism, it’s spreading cheap gossip. Are there no ethical or professional standards left anywhere in the mainstream media?

Update: A defense, on the record, with a named source.

It’s been a bit difficult to respond to the victory of Barack Obama on Tuesday. There’s been a lot of exhilaration on the left, which is to be expected, and already a lot of “what should the right do next?” commentary from conservatives. But it’s difficult to pin down exactly what is being celebrated, or what the right would be responding to.

Which Barack Obama is going to show up in January? Who on the left or right really knows? Will we get the tax cutter, the guy who promises a tough foreign policy, who promises to hunt down al Qaeda wherever they hide(except in Iraq), who says the 2nd Amendment protects an individual right, the moderate, Mr. “Kansas values”, who supports the traditional definition of marriage?

Or will we get the left-wing, New Party, Saul Alinsky devotee and Jeremiah Wright disciple who wants to “transform America”, who wants huge increases in federal spending and control over Americans’ lives, who supports the Washington DC gun ban, who voted against medical care for infants born alive after “failed” abortions, who opposes the Defense of Marriage Act?

It’s pretty disconcerting, to say the least, to have elected a man when no one really knows what he’ll do, or how he’ll govern. Hopefully, Mr. Obama will have the good sense to govern moderately, and leave the talk of transforming the country back on the campaign trail.

But we have to wish Mr. Obama the best. To root for his failure means to root for America to suffer failure as well. That’s been the BDS-suffering* left’s strategy for the last eight years, and they have hurt the country in the process. No decent American will have any desire to follow their lead. As a good man and great American has been saying these last many months before the election, “Country First.”