Daily Kos comments on the September 12 primary elections were, overall, monolithic. With only the one exception -- a comment sympathetic to liberal republican Lincoln Chafee, the overall sentiment of the remaining fifty seven comments is expressed in the following comment heading: "So it's basically a win in Arizona, lose in Rhode Island?". In other words, Daily Kos, a liberal blog, is celebrating the victory of a conservative Republican in his Arizona congressional primary and mourning the loss of a right wing senatorial candidate in Rhode Island to incumbent Lincoln Chafee, a Republican who voted against the Iraq war, against tax cuts, and supports abortion rights and other progressive causes. I am left feeling puzzled. Okay, I say to myself, this is merely another example of party politics. Daily Kos bloggers are ignoring primary candidates' positions on issues in the hope of having a Democrat win the general election. There is what to be said about the practice of placing primacy of party over policy, but something else here still doesn't sound right...
Were'nt these the guys who supported Howard Dean?*
*A popular "netroots" candidate in the 2004 democratic presidential primary. While gaining the support of the internet blogger community, it was widely accepted that he did not have a broad enough base to win in a general election.
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I assume that you are referring to the fact that they should have backed the candidate with the best chance of winning and that arguably was not Dean. But maybe they really thought he had a shot in hell. You can question their reality testing, but they're consistency may be intact.
/C-
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