DEAN BARNETT HERE, REALLY WATCHING HIS GRAMMAR:

It’s word creation time! Let’s bring out our inner Bill Safire. It’s time to bestow upon combative bloggress Jane Hamsher the immortality that she so richly deserves.

As Allah eloquently points out, it will be the foolish politician who next cozies up to the nutroots with same ardor that Ned Lamont did:

“Their chief asset — crazy rage — is also their chief liability. It’s great for fundraising and recruiting volunteers, not so great for winning elections. I think what you’ll see in the next few years, especially if Lamont wins the primary (which looks likely) is mainstream leftists like Mark Warner wooing them early on and then inching away as the campaign heats up. You don’t want to loiter outside a bomb factory; sooner or later, one’s bound to go off.”

But let’s say the bomb that went off yesterday blows up the Lamont campaign and denies the Nedster the victory that was so clearly within his reach. Then the language will have a new word – “hamshered”. “Hamshered” will be defined as a politician being wounded because of his close ties to a kooky blogger.

Used in a sentence: “There’s a chance that Mark Warner will be hamshered because of his relationship with a prominent blogger whose hobbies include astrology and manipulating the price of worthless stocks.”

For Jane Hamsher, this works out as a win-win. If Lamont wins Tuesday and again in November, her guy goes to the Senate. If he loses, she gains immortality.

Not a bad for one day’s worth of juvenile bile-spewing. Good work, Jane!

Thanks to reader JT for the suggestion.

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