in fact, a large proportion of the electors who vote for the candidates of the one party or the other really care much more about the country being honestly and wisely governed

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While I was a genuine enthusiast for Ronald Reagan and the Republicans when I was first seriously interested in politics, I never thought that Jimmy Carter, Walter Mondale, and Tip O'Neil--or even Mike Dukakis and Robert Byrd--were anything other than honorable men with whom I disagreed on some important issues of policy. Indeed, I thought that way about Harry Reid until he took on the Chief Obstructionist mantle as Minority Leader.

I think there are still honorable men and women in the Democratic party, leadership and voters. I have come full circle, it is only recently that I have come back to thinking that there is honor there. Granted some, like Mr. Zuniga, I think are digusting and mired in thier own self importance. Some though are honorable people with a complete disconnect from reality.

Some who say, "The US is imperialist! Don't question my patriotism!" really do love thier country, even if thier version of the United States is a distorted reflection of the reality. I live in a blue state on an island that has a military base on the top end and an artist colony on the south end. 95% of the people I talk to have the same aims: a country at peace, the helpless are aided, brotherhood resides, and dreams are pursued.

The problem intrudes when you get to the method of obtaining these goals, and the left's methods don't work. Instead of questioning methodology they lash out and become even more disconnected from reality.

If the goal is to throw an apple 100 feet to the north, the right says "I'll build a slingshot, may not be exactly dead accurate but I can get close." The left says, "if I throw hard enough south, the apple will circle the globe and end up at the goal." Same goal, but the method doesn't work. Instead of reexamining the method, the left blames the right for the failure.

My read is that Kos is a symptom, not a cause.

We can only hope so. In a recent interview, Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas showed no remorse over his "screw 'em" comment after American contractors were killed and strung in in Fallujah in 2003. Keep in mind this is a...

To hear Benjamin Wallace-Wells tell it in the latest issue of Washington Monthly, Daily Kos mastermind Markos Moulitsas Zuniga has become "a kind of part-time sage, an affiliate member" of the Democratic establishment in Washington. He has regular ph...

Change? They don't have the capacity to change.

Washington Monthly has done a less than flattering feature on Markos Moulitsas of the Daily Kos...

From a political stand point Kos is a looser. None of the candidates he supports ever win. In that respect he is very good for Republicans. Americans recognize extremists when they are honest about their policies. Kos is way out of the mainstream even if he and his hellions don't see it.