Quote from dddooo:
Fine, but as I said before they don't represent the left, they are bad apples. When majority of dailykos participants respond to her diary telling her that she's an idiot, rove's operative and
should delete the diary, how is that for reigning in? What else do you expect them to do?
Should they really disagree with her, and consider that diary as looney as I do, they should axe the diary, or certainly post some sort of official notice of moonbattery or somesuch. But this stuff is as common as sand on theses blogs. These folks are flaming loonies.
Now show me the right wing version of this. I suppose you can link to some white supremist site, but it won't have 10% of the traffic that KOS has, nor will there be Republicans with blogs who post there. Fact is,
there is no right wing version of the lunatic liberal blogs. One might be able to pull up some lunatic site, but it won't have the traffic and it certainly will not be linked to and referred to by Republicans, as KOS is by Democrats.
Further, this sort of stuff
does represent the folks who run many of the liberal blogs. They are nuts. But they seem to be pulling in the dollars, and the DNC does seem to be afraid of moving too far from them. That's not good. In `08 the DNC nominee will have to take the party to the center to win. But that means fighting the blogs. Unless the lunatics are run out of the party in `06 or shortly after the loss, `08 will be a major defeat for the left. Then the right will abandon any pretense of smaller government, and we'll have a 10 or 12 trillion dollar debt by 2010.
But who cares. There's maybe a million (at most) folks who'd rather take care of themselves than rely on the government to do so. 99% of the country is cool with being wards of the state, in one form or another.
