Comments on: Coming Democratic Party Civil War?

By: jami

jami — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 16:50:22 +0000

cutting the number of voters we can attract was absolutely not the lesson of november 2004. kos is hurting the left with his divisiveness. he's proving the right... correct, by showing that the "hard left" wants to run america their way, with no care for what middle america thinks.

we live in a democracy, kos. we need votes.

By: McGehee

McGehee — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 02:45:33 +0000

Well, in California you have a one-party state with a two-party ballot occupied by three parties -- two of which call themselves Republican and hate each other more than either cares about winning elections.

It's not just the conservatives' fault out there. When anyone to the right of Pete Wilson is deemed a "radical"...

By: protein wisdom

protein wisdom — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 19:05:05 +0000

Internecinery

In response to a call from the Democratic Leadership Council's Will Marshall for certain progressives to stop sounding so anti-American all the time (for instance, by declaring defeat and demanding troop withdrawal from Iraq, which in effect w...

By: jennifer

jennifer — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 18:59:13 +0000

I would like to believe that elections are a somewhat functioning market and that a collection of local decisions will add up to what the party is. Not some central decision making body.

In California this has been distoted, in part because Republican's keep nominating radicals so perhaps my hope is wrong. And term limits did not seem to weaken entrenched power.

Still I think the system has tended to reform (reshape) itself in often unexpected and strange ways, that it has been an imperfect, but still successful expression of the national balance. Something in my gut says that none of the things people are busily planning is going to be it.

By: Dave Schuler

Dave Schuler — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 18:14:01 +0000

It also bears noting that none of the candidates that Kos/MoveOn has thrown their support behind has been elected to office. Kos complained lately that Democratic candidates were treating him as an ATM. If he wants to be treated as something other than an ATM, he has to be something other than an ATM.

By: Wizbang

Wizbang — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 17:50:27 +0000

Is Kos Going to Have to Purge Himself?

It was actually funny when Kos said he was going to purge the moonbats from his site. We've had big fun with it here at Wizbang, but now he might have to purge himself... Today Kos went off the deep...

By: McGehee

McGehee — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 16:58:41 +0000

Whatever flaws the GOP has--and there are many--they will be a permanent majority party if the Howard Dean-MoveOn.org-Daily Kos wing of the Democratic Party becomes the face of the opposition.

"If"?

By: jpe

jpe — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 16:32:03 +0000

Kos etal have openly loathed the DLC for years.