"moonbat" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2005, Michele Malkin, Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild, Washington, DC: Regnery, page 108",
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          "text": "As nervous Bush supporters watched the president's approval rating slide, they unleashed their wrath on Sheehan, labeling the mourning mom a “crazy,” “anti-Semite,” “left-wing moonbat,” “crackpot” whose behavior bordered on “treasonous” and who was nothing more than a “hysterical noncombatant.”",
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