The biggest story coming out of the Washington antiwar protests yesterday is not how many people showed up but the lack thereof. If you would have listened to the MSM portray the event you would have thought every city flowed with discontent for the war, but just the opposite happened.

Rick Moran who was there wrote:

“As I watch the demonstration on the mall today (much smaller than those in the past) I am thinking of the massive gulf between the self absorbed hodge podge of anti-globalist, pro-feminist, anti-capitalist, pro-abortion anti-war fruitcakes cheering on speakers lobbying for Palestinians, Katrina aid, and other causes not related to the war and the committed, determined bunch of kids who put their hides on the line, filling up the jails of dozens of cities, risking the billy clubs and tear gas of the police to stop what they saw as an unjust war.

The netnuts are fond of calling those of us who support the mission in Iraq chickenhawks. What do you call someone who sits on their ass in front of a keyboard, railing against the President, claiming that the United States is falling into a dictatorship, and writing about how awful this war is and yet refuses to practice the kinds of civil disobedience that their fathers and mothers used to actually bring the Viet Nam war to an end?

I call them what they are; rank cowards. There should be a million people on the mall today. Instead, there might be 50,000. Today‚Äôs antiwar left talks big but cowers in the corner. I have often written about how unserious the left is about what they believe. The reason is on the mall today. If they really thought that the United States was on the verge of becoming a dictatorship are you seriously trying to tell me that any patriotic American wouldn‚Äôt do everything in their power to prevent it rather than mouth idiotic platitudes and self serving bromides?”

Rick is right, couldn’t have said it better.

I live far away from Washington in the bowels of South Florida and going to the market yesterday after doing The Macranger show (shameless plug), I saw two – yes that is “2″ scruffy looking kids, who couldn’t have been more than 18 with “Stop the War” signs.

I doubt that if I could have stopped and asked them the reason they were there they would have launched into the tired old, “Bush is a facists and he started the war for oil and he lied and blah, blah….”.

Yet otherwise they couldn’t – like a lot of the left – give an intelligent reason for their position. To them it’s much about “ragging against the machine” and then back to the X-Box.

Funny they were standing near a gas station where the price per gallon was $2.26 a gallon. A full 76 cents more than when the war started. Yeah, “war for oil” alright.

But the point is that the entire day was a colossal fizzout for all involved. The Jane Fonda appearance particulary striking as it was just a few years ago that she apologized for giving aid and comfort to the North Vietnamese, and now is back pumping those skinny fists and speaking through the botox, possibly trying to recapture – for her – the “good old days”.

Thanks Jane for reminding us of who you really are and who most of us never want to be.