Glenn Greenwald’s Mitt Romney Surrogacy

[joshcryer]

87. Poll numbers have little to do with vote suppression via demoralization from the "extreme" left.

If the "extreme" left demoralize the base as they did in 2010 (and people sit home) then Obama could well lose this thing.

Of course, Obama does do the targeted killing because American's are bloodthirsty assholes, but what can you do. The guy wants to get reelected. I expect he'll even come out for marijuana in due course (the polls just flipped on that one, now the majority wants it legalized).

In reality Glenn Greenwald is attempting to demoralize the base from the right Libertarian point of view, so he serves the purposes of the "extreme" right very well. The "extreme" left identify with what he writes, while ignorantly not understanding what he actually means. For instance, Iraq has thousands of contractor mercenaries, Blackwater (now known as Academi after numerous name changes) et al. Glenn Greenwald does not level much criticism at these mercenaries because they are totally legitimate from a right Libertarian point of view.