I figured out what is happening these days to Lefties.
To figure it out you may have to read BOBOs in Paradise. BOBOs are bourgeois income earners who deal with their guilt about earning big money by affecting bohemian airs, including Lefty politics.
What happened to Gov. John Dean? He went from front runner one day, because he had raised a lot of money on the Internet and appealed directly to the anti-War clique, to third place in the primary race because he lost in Iowa. Iowa was an insignificant state for him. Lefties abandoned him immediately as soon as he showed signs of being a loser. Not because Dean’s showing in Iowa showed he couldn't beat Bush, but because BOBOs will abandon anything that smells of loser. Remember, part of the BOBO is a big money earner, a bourgeois.
I watch Lefties with their current issue: fair trade coffee. You won't see fair trade coffee on the menu of expensive restaurants. It looks like a loser issue to Lefties so they won't order it in public when they are out spending big money.
If it were a choice between Prada with slave labor leather workers and some unknown Korean brand with a clear labor record, they will choose Prada.
Being a loser is what Lefties fear. They are going to run away from Ralph Nader in horror, this election. If Bush wins big, including the Congress, in the coming election, Lefties are going to disappear from the Democratic Party.
Lefties made a pathetic showing this past weekend at their pro-genocide march because they know that pulling out of Iraq is a loser issue.