As you can imagine, the competition for making the “Top Ten Leftist in America” list would be stiff. After all, there are so MANY moonbats out there, one can hardly do a double click without having one’s mouse trip over one or two clueless Kool-aid consumers. Cao’s has taken a crack at it and come up with a colorful cast of completely clueless Clydesdale candy-cans.

Among the most memorable moonbats are HOUSE favorites Michael (“There are no terrorists”) Moore and Danny (“Reparations now…Reparations tomorrow…Reparations forever”) Glover. Other leading lefty dim bulbs include Ramsey Clark clone Brian Becker whose group International Action Center (IAC) opposed the war in Afghanistan. And a personal favorite of mine Oliver Stone, whose sophomoric movies portraying America as hell on earth and the American government as a conspiracy of “bad people” trying to stick to the average Joe are made with the intellectual gravitas of a petulant teenage girl recently dumped by a boyfriend.

One name absent from the list who perhaps should get at least an “Honorable Mention” is Ralph Nader. Nader’s halo might need a little re-arranging after his quixotic and laughable Presidential “Campaign” showed about as much life as a “Traditional Values” rally at NOW headquarters. And wasn’t it a stitch to see Republicans giving Nader a helping hand in Florida, Ohio, and other states so that the Grand Dame of the nanny state could get on the ballot? Oh, how rich!

The discussion thread in the comments section brought some amusement as well. Here’s Shannon talking about, of all things, the “populist” government of Nicaragua:

“By the way, dismissing the Sandinista government as a dictatorship is ridiculous. Their government came to power in response TO a dictatorship, was populist and democratically elected. Many outside international observers pronounced the elections valid. Only Reagan, who didn’t actually send any observers, said it was a sham.“

Huh? Wha? WTF? I got carried away a little in my own response:

I find Shannon’s comment about the Sandinista’s being “democratically elected” one of the more laughable statements I’ve read anywhere in a long time.

After seizing power with a broad coalition (including the Catholic Church and middle class small businessmen) the Sandinistas systematically killed, intimidated, arrested or jailed every other member of that coalition until they were the only ones left.

Then, with the help of American lefties and the Soviets, they ran an election in which they outlawed all opposition parties, controlled access to all media (except the courageous editor of La Prensa who paid for his independence by being thrown into jail. His wife later ran for and won the Presidency only after Reagan and the Contras had forced the Sandanistas to have real elections) and using tactics reminiscent of Hitler’s brownshirts, broke up opposition meetings using clubs and bludgeons.

Only after this sham election did Reagan help the already existing opposition to the Sandinistas and fund the Contras.

To have the unmitigated gall to describe this bunch of gangsters and thugs as “democratically elected” says much about Ms. Hubbell’s willful disregard for the facts and a blindness towards anything that would overturn her fantasy regarding anything leftist.

And Cao weighs in with some heavy rhetorical artillery:

Faithful to their Marxist ideology and obsessed with the need for the state to control the means of production, the Sandinistas took a firm grip of the Nicaraguan economy. State controls and nationalization spread, aid to the private sector vanished, and incentives for foreign investment disappeared. In other words, another 20th century experiment with socialism destroyed a nation’s economy.

Thousands of Nicaraguans who attempted to protect their private property, or who simply committed the crime of owning private property, were imprisoned, tortured, or executed by their new communist masters.

Unlike the Somoza regime, the Sandinistas did not leave the native populations on the Atlantic coast of Nicaragua in peace. All Nicaraguans had to take part in the Marxist experiment. Thus, in perfect Khmer Rouge style, the Sandinistas inflicted a ruthless forcible relocation of tens of thousands of Indians from their land. Like Stalin, they used state-created famine as a weapon against these “enemies of the people.”

The Sandinista army committed myriad atrocities against the Indian population, killing and imprisoning approximately 15,000 innocent people. The crimes included not only mass murders of innocent natives themselves, but a calculated liquidation of their entire leadership – as the Soviet army had perpetrated against the Poles in Katyn in 1943.

Forced collectivization…starvation…murder…sounds pretty “populist” and “democratic” to me…

That is, if I were a moonbat lefty with the intellectual development of a 10 year old, the emotional maturity of chimpanzee, and the moral sense of my pet cat Ebony.