Comments on: YearlyKos Convention Underscores Blogging’s Tricky Political Role

By: Nancy Hanks

Nancy Hanks — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 00:02:33 +0000

Joe – as a fellow (or sister….) blogger, I beg to differ. If Kos were a player in any game other than the Democratic Party, he’d be soft. (This post on The Hankster)

But thanks for the headsup to The Gun Toting Liberal – as you say, always the independent!

I really appreciate your effort to bring a mature political dialogue to our current extremist name-calling enviroment that is the partisan American political discourse!
Nancy

By: Holly in Cincinnati

Holly in Cincinnati — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 18:48:47 +0000

As a Democrat, I’m disgusted that our Democratic presidential candidates are attending this event.

By: domajot

domajot — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 17:05:07 +0000

Kos doesn’t speak for me.
GTL doesn’t speak for me.
Current conservatives don’t speak for me at all.
Libertarians don’t speak for me, either.
Independents as a third party doesn’t seem an attractive idea, because ‘independent’ is not a platform.

I feel lonely.

By: Gray

Gray — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 13:41:03 +0000

GTL doesn’t say anything about YealyKos, he isn’t there, got no clue what’s going on. All he does is spreading his same old same old prejudices about ‘the far left’. That’s lame.

Why did you even link his noninformations here?
That’s simply not in the same league as the good story by that pajamablogger, who provided a real inside account from a different angle.
:-/

By: counterfactual

counterfactual — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 13:07:22 +0000

I sometimes wonder I have my own special alternate-universe version of DailyKos that only I can see. I skim the front page, and pick out the interesting diaries on the Recommended list, and when I’m trying to avoid real work I’ll skip through the rest of the diaries. I rarely read comments since like me, they’re mostly by the kibitzers, not the dedicated policy wonks.

I’m bewildered by Gun-Toting Liberal’s tone of outrage. GTL says he’d want to have Bill Richardson or James Webb represent the Democrats. But Richardson has his supporters on dKos (my impression is the consensus is that he has good positions but is too far behind the front-runners in money and endorsements). And James Webb is adored on dKos, and they claim him as one of the successes of the left blogosphere. dKos was supporting Webb from before his formal announcement when the Democratic establishment thought George Allen was unbeatable.