Hugh Hewitt takes a stroll among the Left’s elite Bloggers looking for their take on tomorrow’s elections in Iraq and comes away unimpressed!

The party of Truman and JFK has a problem when its advance media guard does not celebrate the rise of a democracy from the ashes of a dictatorship. More than a problem, actually, a collapse at the core. It is now, at best, the party of Henry Wallace and Teddy Kennedy, and that’s not a party remotely close to the American mainstream.

He has direct links to those that he scanned, so check ‘em out, if you have the stomach for it! (db)

[Update] Following one of Hugh’s links to Matthew Yglesias’ Blog to see what he wrote about Dick Cheney’s supposed improper attire at the Holocaust memorial ceremony, a few posts down he finally makes some comment about the Iraqi election.

Now certainly turnout may be very low across the country, or just in Sunni areas. Alternatively, turnout could be high but the voting could be a bloodbath. But there are good reasons to think that most Iraqis are excited about voting, and at least some reason to think that a crash program to secure polling places can keep things relatively safe for one day. The real question to be asking is: Even if the election goes well as a procedural matter tomorrow, what good will it do?

The last statement, “what good will it do?”, personifies today’s Left in America. Irregardless of how it has come to be, voting in the first free election in Iraq in over 50 years is starting in less than 12 hours and all one of their new-media pundits can say about it is “what good will it do?”

Iraqi’s are willing to risk death and dismemberment in order to vote, but the leftists bleat “what good will it do?”

Our soldiers and marines willingly fight, bleed and die to help the Iraqis take control of their own destiny and all we hear from the Left is “what good will it do?”

The fledgling Republic created out of the Revolutionary War of 1776 had a pretty bumpy start of its own, but in the last 200 plus years it has done a lot of good. The same folk that are whining about the perils and irrelevance of tomorrow’s Iraqi election are the same ones that were whining about having to stand in line at the polls or having to drive a few extra miles in order to cast their vote this last November. You wonder if any of them would have turned out to vote if there was more than a slight possibility they would be shot or blown to bits, yet that is exactly what the Iraqi people are facing.

A people who are strong enough in spirit to face death for casting their personal, private vote for those that will be writing their new government’s constitution will be strong enough to make it all mean something, to them and to their children. That’s “what good it will do!” (db)

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