A look at what the left is facing...
Truly funny, and the opportunities for conservatives are staggering.
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Just look at the reaction to Sen. Clintonâs speech from one of the most accomplished strategists of the VLWC, Markos Moulitsas of the Daily Kos website.
âThe poor, poor DLC forced to âreturn fire?ââ Moulitsas wrote this week. âPlease. The DLC has always been at the forefront of intra-party mud-slinging. Theyâre just finally being called on it, and suddenly itâs time for peace?â
No way, said Moulitsas. In addition to opposing centrist Democrats on a wide range of issues, Moulitsas and his Daily Kossacks are incensed that one prominent DLC type, Marshall Wittmann, had the temerity to suggest that the Daily Kos home base â Berkeley, Calif. â is a bit, uh, way out there on the left.
It seems Wittmann, writing in his own blog, disparaged those living in âthe daily kosy (misspelling intended) confines of Berserkely.â The Berserkelyites, Wittmann suggested, are obsessed with ideological battles and puritan purges, while âhere in Columbus constructive committed crusaders for progressivism are discussing ways to win back the hearts of the heartland.â
In the world of the VLWC, themâs fightinâ words. And Moulitsas is in a fightinâ mood.
Sen. Clinton âplans on working with the DLC to come up with some common party message yadda yadda yadda,â Moulitsas sniffed.
Well, she can forget about that, Moulitsas continued. The DLC has âsmearedâ not only progressives but an entire city â that would be Berkeley â and shouldnât expect cooperation from anyone.
âNotice how he slams everyone in Berkeley?â Moulitsas said of Wittmann. âNo good vital-center-seeking Democrats there! Theyâre all âberzerk,â ha ha! I bet he called up his old friends at the Christian Coalition and his current friends at PNAC [the neoconservative Project for a New American Century] to share that gem. Cease-fire, DLC style!â
âItâs truly disappointing that this is the crap Hillary has signed on to,â Moulitsas concluded. âMore of the failed corporatist bullshit that has cost our party so dearly in the last decade and a half.â
By the âlast decade and a half,â Moulitsas apparently meant the period in which the DLC helped jettison the Democratic Partyâs soft-on-crime, soft-on-defense, soft-on-everything image, allowing Bill Clinton to win the White House.
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