Lesson learned? Probably not.
The plan was to unmask President Barack Obama. It didn't work.
From the piece:
The new online right came roaring out of 2008 convinced that the only reason Obama won was because John McCain's weak-stomached campaign — cowed by the aura of the first black presidential nominee — had failed to document his ties to the radical left. Their mission would be to "vet" the president as McCain hadn't, and convince the American people to reject him.
Now the loose coalition of scrappy bloggers, advocacy journalists, and unrepentant trolls who spent four years writing about Jeremiah Wright and Saul Alinsky are coming to terms with reality: The polls weren't skewed, and their narrative didn't stick.
And with the Republican Party now in full-throttle soul-searching mode, many in the conservative blogosphere are turning introspective as well.
