Comments on: Does Daily Kos Control The Dems?

By: Paul Brinkley

Paul Brinkley — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 19:15:31 +0000

A lot of people probably don't care for Kos because of a comment he made. (In the event the link above doesn't work: Google for: kos "screw them")

By: wj

wj — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 22:00:14 +0000

Certainly Kos and his friends have a right to their free speech. But the question, as I understood it, concerns their impact on the prospect for changing the Democratic Party, not to mention the nation, in the direction they desire. And the answer is: not much — at least until they get a little more contact with those outside their bubble. Meanwhile, their fantasies have the same effect as the current set of White House fantasies — they turn people against them.

By: Meredith

Meredith — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 19:48:41 +0000

I don’t necessarily love Kos, but aside from the issue of him ragging on other Dems, I don’t really have too many negative feelings towards him either.

Obviously people have a problem with him and his blog because it’s too liberal, or too far liberal. However, I don’t see any rightwing conservatives apologizing (or even being asked to apologize) for their extremism. The way I see it, as long as rightwing nuts are allowed to exercise their right to free speech, we leftwing nuts should take advantage of ours. If we didn’t, the righties would probably declare that the silence of the lefties should be taken as implied consent. I would be willing to back down if rightwingers would cool it a little.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 18:18:30 +0000

What’s with you guys and the infatuation with tearing down Kos? Is he really that threatening to the right? You seem to scoff at that idea, but then you spend hours droning on about him. If he’s that trivial – let him go. On the other hand, if you suspect that he is making some real changes to the way politics is done, I can see why you feel the need to cut him down.

By: wj

wj — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 15:25:25 +0000

What is really amazing is how little things change. I was in Berkeley (Kos’ current base) in the late 1960s. The local radicals then were just as out of touch with the rest of the country then as Kos is now. And, like Kos, they spent so much time talking to like-minded people that they thought that everybody agreed with them. When Nixon beat McGovern, they were convinced that the election MUST have been stolen . . . because everybody agreed with them that McGovern was the far better choice. QED. Expect the same reaction from the Kossacks when their candidates lost, whether to more moderate Democrats or to Republicans.

The more things change, the more they remain the same. :-)

By: Joshua

Joshua — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 13:12:49 +0000

I assume that’s Kos himself in the picture? Scary… change his hairstyle a little and he looks almost exactly like me.

By: Justin Gardner

Justin Gardner — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 06:18:27 +0000

Wow, you really lump Glenn Reynolds in with Charles Johnson and Michelle Malkin?

I’m talking about the right-wing blogosphere. Instapundit is certainly partisan, and so…the link. Brian in MA certainly agrees, and he’s decidedly partisan.

By: Brian in MA

Brian in MA — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 03:02:46 +0000

Kos looks so cute in that suit. He’ll be celebrating many more moral victories to come… in style!

As to Glenn/Malkin/LGF, sure they’re partisan, but you see, they actually utilize concepts foreign to Kos: logic and reason. Being partisan doesn’t make you stupid or illogical, it makes you partisan. Quite frankly, I’d rather be with the partisans who don’t play pretend or pull punches than to never offend the sensitivites of the swing-vote center by being consistently inconsistent with the bigger picture of my individually scattered policy choices. Most people aren’t in the middle because they are above politics, most people are in the middle because they are easily swayed back and forth by cheap political tricks throughout the campaign. You know who I’m talking about, the people who are still undecided on October 31st and can barely name the candidates.

By: Lonely Federalist

Lonely Federalist — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 02:54:19 +0000

Wow, you really lump Glenn Reynolds in with Charles Johnson and Michelle Malkin?

By: Dave Schuler

Dave Schuler — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 01:26:53 +0000

Kos is living in a dreamworld. The Democratic Party does have a powers-that-be, it ain’t him, and to them he’s just an ATM.