What long term tactical advantages do you see in NOT attacking TNR for all the crap they write, domajot???

From what I’ve read of DailyKos, I get the sense that he can make some very astute observations, but lately is getting carried away with concentrating on what he can do while ignoring the question of whether it’s the smart thing to do. A truly effective tactiician thinks more about long term effects than what I see in Daily Kos.

here is more.

Here is also a very interesting one by the way – about the media.

Then there is this

And this:
self-identified liberals: 31%
self-identified conservatives: 41%

and this:
“Adults, late 2004, based on my own analyses of the 2004 National Election Study: 35% liberal, 55% conservative (remainder are moderates, non-identifiers, or reported inconsistencies before and after the election)”

PEW:
19% liberal
39% conservative

Rasmussen: “Among the general public, there are more self-identified conservatives than liberals”

The exact numbers differ, but the trend is clear: there are more self-identified conservatives than liberals.

That’s just another obvious tactic to divert from the central question:
Why should KOS partisanship be worse for the Dems than the hawkish approach of hard core republicans is for the GOP?

Where do you get that idea? This may have been true in 2000, I dunno, but surely not anymore. Cite one recent poll that shows the conservatives having a “much bigger” base than the Dems.

Oh, btw, looking at the republican candidate roster, I think it’s very likely that at least part of the ‘conservative base’ won’t vote in 2008. Cause Conservative != GOP.

I’ll help. Key:

because they simply don’t have enough popular support.

The ‘conservative base’ is much bigger than the liberal base. The liberal base is more dependent on Centrists / moderates / independents.

Nonsense. They are simply pandering to their base, and aren’t even especially fundamentalistic in doing it. The blogosphere activeley supported many centrist Dems, most prominently Webb, who wouldn’t have made it without their support, it was that close. What’s not to like?
And if you were right, Bush would already have destroyed his “own movement”. But look at the polls, still about 30% total fanatics left. More reasoning, less agitation pls, Mike.

Indeed. However, Bush and Co. created this partisan environment, and they are still in power. The US is in a verydangerous situation right now, check the Sy Hersh story. This nation desperately needs opposition against the WH’s warmongering. Much to early for the Dems to play nice. Maybe in 2009, happy times will be back again.

In the end, though, ‘liberals’ will lose the Partisan battle because they simply don’t have enough popular support.

Kos et alia are destroying their own movement in the long run.

Blah. Party infighting is totally normal. As I see it, moving the party to the right, as some ‘moderates’ here want the Dems to do, isn’t in the interest of real liberals. It’s only democratic that they fight such attempts. Stop the whining and offer soem ideas how to mend the mess you hawks helped to create.

Face it, David: Supporting the Iraq adventure was such a horrible mistake, it won’t simply go away by apologizing.

Besides, as long as that absolute moron Marty Peretz is allowed to write in TNR, Kos is totally right in attacking them.

This is personal to me, because I am one of the heretics–not just because I read TNR, but because I supported the Iraq war. If my repentance is futile and falls on deaf ears to the left, then where can I go? Ultimately, Kos does not want to see me converted back into the fold of liberal politics. He wants my head put on stake on the front lawn as a warning to others.

Why would you want to ‘go’ there? As is obvious certain people are incredibly partisan, don’t want other people to think for themselves, etc. Isn’t that something one should oppose, instead of wanting to be accepted by the blogmaffia?