"Pur-raise Gawd fur vittory!"

Each time public opinion data is released, disclosing that roughly a third of all Americans continue to believe George W. Bush is doing a fine job, I think to myself, “Who are these people? Where do they spend their days? And when they’re alone with their thoughts, do they hear calliope music — or do their minds sound more like an old Brian Eno record?”

Making his case for the former, this idiot challenges liberal bloggers to “Convert to VICTORY” by announcing their support for . . . actually, I’m not really sure what they’re supposed to endorse. In exchange for declaring their affection for VICTORY (a word he nearly always capitalizes, or emboldens, or italicizes), those who accept “Red Stater’s” challenge can expect to read kind words about them on his blog. Near as I can tell, these declarations are supposed to “unite” the nation somehow. What’s brilliant about the challenge, though, is that it’s premised on exactly the sort of fantasy of potential that Scott wrote about earlier:

Disclaimer: Supporting victory does not mean you believe that victory is assured or that you even believe we are in a war, (or that you like Bush) but does mean that IF we are in a war, and IF victory is possible, that you support said victory. ie: Victory in Iraq.
(I can’t make it any easier than that.)

It’s like Schrodinger’s cat, I suppose. In any event, Red Stater has been harrassing Rodger Payne for several days about this; Rodger, unwilling to enter the parallel universe in which the cat isn’t dead, has bravely tried to answer RS in complete sentences, to no evident avail.