WTF! Of course lefties stand on principle!

  Help me out here.
  I don't understand what all these lefties are celebrating in the hours since bin Laden's death.
  We all know they're anti-Bush, but I thought they were also anti-war, anti-waterboarding, anti-military (especially recruitment), anti-death penalty, anti-Guantanamo, anti-assassination, anti-politicization of 9/11, anti- U.S. intervention, anti-Bush policy, anti-secret detention centers, even ashamed and anti-American.
  That's what I thought.
  But now they're all celebrating what?

•   War. 
•   Waterboarding. 
•   The Navy Seals. 
•   Killing a weaponless individual. 
•   Assassinating a leader of a "military" organization. 
•   Intervening into another country's business, even an incursion into their territory and killing a citizen of another country.

  I mean, I thought a Republican AG was more of a threat to this country than bin Laden.
  Suddenly crowing about murder!, previously considered rogue and immoral, is de rigueur.
  Patterico has a roundup. So does Michelle Malkin.

These leftosphere reactions are ultimately as stupid as they are shameless. For example, Bill Sher (of HuffPo and OurFuture) can snark: “Middle East democracy and Al Qaeda: two things President Obama took more seriously than President Bush,” which will come as news to the Iranians and Egyptians. Grist magazine’s David Roberts gloated: “We booted the cowboy and elected a black, liberal urbanite, and he’s the one who tracked down the bad guy. It’s just too, too delicious.” How does that look in light of the news that the intelligence ultimately leading to bin Laden’s death came from the harsh interrogation of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Abu Faraj al-Libi? Indeed, what does it do for any progressive’s credibility to be cheering a unilateral, targeted assassination? Do they think that in Pakistan and other countries, Pres. Obama isn’t looking a lot like Sheriff Bart? The lefties highlighting the fact that Obama said during the 2008 campaign he would conduct such an operation — and criticizing Sens. Hillary Clinton and John McCain for disagreeing — are now siding with people like Andrew McCarthy, which is fine by me, but the blatant hackery involved should be embarrassing to the left.

  This is all too, too confusing to a political outsider. What is wrong with these people?
  If you were a political neophyte, you might think political positions are simply based on what gains the most advantage, the most power, and the most leverage against their, well, enemies.
  It wasn't as easy as it looked for the stateside participants in bin Laden's death. Dear Leader was really nervous while watching the Seals break into bin Laden's fortress from his perch in the White House.
  After all, his political future (WTF) was at risk.