Everyone Hates The Professional Left

Including the Professional Left, apparently.

As angry as they might be, the professional left isn't ready to back a primary challenger to President Obama just yet.

Two high-profile liberals on Thursday said they are not interested in running against the president in 2012, and liberal bloggers say any challenge to Obama would be fraught with difficulty.

“I haven't heard of a credible name that has been floated that would challenge President Obama,” said David Sirota, a prominent liberal blogger. “I haven't heard of that. I think it would be very difficult to do.”

Markos Moulitsas of Daily Kos, who is also a columnist for The Hill, said he didn't think Obama would get a 2012 primary challenge "in a million years." In an e-mail, Moulitsas also said Obama shouldn't be challenged.

Still, some influential voices on the left, which erupted in fury this week at criticism White House press secretary Robert Gibbs made in an interview with The Hill, suggest a multitude of voices in New Hampshire and Iowa could be helpful to the party. 

“I have always encouraged a diversity of voices in the primary process, within all parties and at all levels of government,” said Jane Hamsher, founder of Firedoglake.com, a leading liberal blog.

“It's a sign of a healthy democracy,” said Hamsher, who suggested this week that Gibbs’s comments could depress turnout in the November mid-term elections for Congress.

No, what's going to depress turnout in the November midterms is the Village pushing six weeks of Useful Idiots Are Useful and how progressives are simultaneously destroying the country with their agenda while being laughably pathetic and easily dismissed.

The real bad guy here is the specter of Republican takeover of the House and Senate and not Obama, but that apparently hasn't occurred to the Professional Left, just the Class A Minor League Farm Team Left like myself.   I guess it's too obvious that more Republicans in Congress will lead to a less progressive second two years of Obama's current term, but I'm going to throw that out there anyway.

Oh, and Robert Gibbs giving the Village six weeks of Hippie Punching as a gift like that...man, major networks and political blog shops need to be sending him assorted meats and cheeses.