If we are to learn anything from the case of Rep. Brian Baird it is that MoveOn has no problem eating their own. To wit:

Rep. Brian Baird’s (D-Wash.) recent conversion on the Iraq war is beginning to affect more than the national dialogue. On Wednesday, liberal group MoveOn.org announced an ad campaign against the congressman in his own district.

Baird recently returned from a trip to Iraq and reversed his position on a withdrawal timetable, citing military progress in the four-year-old war.

MoveOn is calling the move a “flip-flop” and says it goes against the views of his constituents.

The ad does not make specific reference to Baird’s conversion. Instead, it features a soldier who served in Iraq talking about the amount of resistance troops encountered and at the end asks viewers to tell Baird to bring the troops home.

This begs the question as to what MoveOn will do with the icon of the anti-war movement in the House of Representatives: John Murtha.

“I think the ’surge’ is working,” Mr. Murtha, a Democrat, said in a video conference from his Johnstown office, describing the president’s decision to commit nearly 30,000 additional troops at the beginning of the year.

Will the authors of the infamous “General Betray-us” advertisement be consistent in their disdain for Democrats who are able to accept reality?

Inquiring minds would like to know.

Michelle Malkin asks the same thing.

Meanwhile, the Politico has a retrospective of Chairman Murtha’s less than supportive words on the efforts of our military prior to his most recent statement.

“This could be a real headache for us,” said one top House Democratic aide, speaking on the condition of anonymity. “Pelosi is going to be furious.”

Glad to see the priorities are straight in the Caucus…

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