The debacle in Lebanon has turned rightwing blogs against George Bush, and as Glenn Greenwald documents, it ain't pretty.

Here's Michelle Malkin:

Israel and the West surrender to Hizballah.

Terrorists and the U.N. win.

Jeff Goldstein:

Israel and the US have been defeated. Hizballah will grow emboldened. As will Iran.

Daily Pundit:

The Bush we know would not have pulled the trigger on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He abdicated the hard decisions in favor of political maneuvering and meaningless gestures.

As for me? I've moved on. The first administration of the first century of the American Third Millennium will, in my estimation, be remembered as one of the biggest failures of that century. Bush's great failure was, not invading Iraq, but not weathering the adversity that followed through acts of real leadership, and then pressing on with the necessary military destruction of the other regimes he, himself, named as most dangerous five years ago.

I'm hoping we can get through the next two years without any major disasters, and then I'm looking to elect a real war leader to the White House - somebody with a warrior's temperament and a leader's skills. George Bush has neither. He is a dangerous failure, and America will be well rid of him.

Greenwald makes the obvious point that RightBlogs had previously insisted that "attacking the Commander-in-Chief during a time of war" helps The Terrorists and emboldens our enemies.

Bill Kristol and Charles Krauthammer both said this weekend on Fox that Hezbollah won and Iran has been strengthened. Attacks on the Commander-in-Chief and proclamations of American defeat are ubiquitous - among the same group that insisted for the last five years that such attacks are dangerous and wrong and that talk of American defeat helps the terrorists.

Aren't terrorists going to be so happy to see that Americans are divided in this way? Doesn't it make us less safe for all of these people to be branding the U.S. as weak losers and to be glorifying the strength and power of our enemies? Don't these people realize that we're in a war and that weakening the Commander-in-Chief with such criticisms and declaring American defeat endangers all of us?

But apart from the grotesque (but utterly consistent) hypocrisy of RightBlogs, there's a crucial political fact here: ever since Hurricane Katrina one year ago, Bush's only political support has come from rightwing ideologues, led by RightBlogs.

The RightBlogs have kept Bush's polls from falling under 30%. But if this week's attacks on Bush from RightBlogs continue, Bush's polls will fall into the 20's.

Similar polling forced Richard Nixon to resign in August of his sixth year. Of course, Nixon was dealing with a serious impeachment investigation led by House Democrats, while Bush's Republican lapdogs won't even hold a single hearing on Bush's innumerable crimes.

But even before the Lebanon fiasco, Bush's dismal polls threatened an anti-Republican tsunami in November. If post-Lebanon RightBlog anger leads Republican voters to stay home - or worse, to vote for Democrats - we could see the end of the Republican Party as we know it.

So here's my advice to the RightBlogs: now that you've planted your knives deep into Bush's back... keep turning!