{"id":576,"date":"2007-08-18T17:11:05","date_gmt":"2007-08-18T21:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/18\/democrat-feud-dlc-vs-kos\/"},"modified":"2007-08-18T17:11:05","modified_gmt":"2007-08-18T21:11:05","slug":"democrat-feud-dlc-vs-kos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=576","title":{"rendered":"Democrat feud; DLC vs. Kos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20070818\/NATION\/108180054\/1001\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Lambro<\/a> of the Washington Times reports a growing rift in the Democrat Party between the Democrat Leadership Council and the internet lunatic fringe;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The groups held dueling conferences this month, and the Yearly Kos Convention clearly came out on top. It drew 1,500 liberal activists \u00e2\u20ac\u201d including 500 bloggers \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and a half-dozen Democratic presidential candidates, led by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. The New York Democrat has been embraced by the DLC as one of its own.<\/p>\n<p>The DLC drew 350 elected officials to its conference but was snubbed by all the presidential candidates. However, Mrs. Clinton&#8217;s husband, a former DLC chairman, delivered the keynote speech.<\/p>\n<p>Markos Moulitsas Zuniga stepped up his war of words against the DLC this month. The founder of the Daily Kos blog and the annual Kos conference considers DLC members &#8220;Republican-lite,&#8221; as opposed to true Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The DLC doesn&#8217;t want a victorious Democratic Party unless such victories happen using their formula. We&#8217;ve been there, done that, and it simply didn&#8217;t work,&#8221; Mr. Moulitsas wrote in his blog last week. &#8220;Even working out of their own playbook, we couldn&#8217;t get that magical majority of the popular vote. We lost control of the House and Senate. Things truly seemed hopeless. We as a movement sprung from those failures.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article goes on to say that the KosKids consider Hillary Clinton the DLC&#8217;s candidate and they don&#8217;t think she can run against her own negatives.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;She is also the DLC candidate, literally,&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0[Kos] wrote earlier this year in a blog that quoted from a Ford memo accepting the DLC chairmanship in which the former congressman wrote, &#8220;I assume there will be an effort to help Senator Clinton&#8217;s campaign, and I would support such an effort.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, who does that leave?<\/p>\n<p>Barack Obama, who <a href=\"http:\/\/marcambinder.theatlantic.com\/archives\/2007\/08\/enoughs_enough_obama_will_limi_1.php\" target=\"_blank\">has decided he&#8217;s going to cut back on his debates<\/a> because <a href=\"http:\/\/images.cnn.com\/2007\/POLITICS\/08\/07\/obama.pakistan\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">everytime he opens his mouth<\/a> these days, everyone discovers that he really is a blathering idiot and little more than a nice suit. So that&#8217;s quite a strategy &#8211; hide the candidate from discussing issues until the election. We could even put up a cardboard cutout of him at the Inauguration ceremony if they&#8217;d be more comfortable with that. I&#8217;m sure the Kossacks will like him for the obvious reasons &#8211; they think Americans would feel too guilty to vote against a purportedly Black man. They would &#8211; so the rest of us will, too.<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe <a href=\"http:\/\/michellemalkin.com\/2007\/08\/17\/john-edwards-predatory-lending-beneficiary\/\" target=\"_blank\">openly hypocritical John Edwards<\/a>, the prettiest girl in the presidential campaign, who can only seem to raise enough cash when he <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abcnews.com\/politicalradar\/2007\/08\/edwards-calls-c.html\" target=\"_blank\">mentions Ann Coulter&#8217;s name<\/a>. Victory-hungry Democrats won&#8217;t tolerate the scandals that&#8217;ll erupt around him if he won the nomination. I figure his happy face will collapse before the primaries begin.<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe the prince of peace\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dennis4president.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dennis Kucinich<\/a>, who is quickly becoming the heir apparent to the mantle of perennial presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche, the original moonbat.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richardsonforpresident.com\/issues\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Richardson<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/chrisdodd.com\/issues\/foreign_affairs\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Dodd<\/a> nor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joebiden.com\/issues\/?id=0009\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Biden<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0will get the KozKranks&#8217; support &#8211; they&#8217;re too conservative (as Democrats go) on the war and taxes. So who does that leave?<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s still time to get <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maderatribune.com\/news\/newsview.asp?c=222595\" target=\"_blank\">Cindy Sheehan<\/a>, I suppose &#8211; that&#8217;s one candidate all of the KozKids can get behind. Maybe the DLC can put lipstick on that pig.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Lambro of the Washington Times reports a growing rift in the Democrat Party between the &hellip; <a title=\"Democrat feud; DLC vs. Kos\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=576\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Democrat feud; DLC vs. Kos<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}