Kos sucks and he isn't particularly knowledgable about policy issues. That said, he was quite effective in the last election and played a large part in Democratic success in MT, VA, and RI (although Chafee probably just stunk as a candidate). He and his kossacks are willing to do anything to win and they raise a lot of money for candidates, which isn't that big a deal for Senators but for Congress in districts where raising a 1 million dollars helps a lot, it is.

He and and other far left bloggers help raise enough money for Jim Webb to barely win the primary and he and his minions did the dirty work to bring stories like Macacca to life and keep them going. Do you remember any negative stories on Webb during the campaign?

While Webb claimed to have run on the issues he didn't. He allowed his subordinates to unfairly attack Allen as a racist and a self-hating jew amongst other things. Webb was way down until the Macacca incident. The mainstream media picked up a number of these stories and Webb received little of the criticsm for these actions.

Kos is like a less knowledgable version of Rush Limbaugh, he can help motivate the base and raise money but you shouldn't listen to him for the direction of the party and ocassionally he will say something that will really hurt your party (i.e. Michael J. Fox comments for Limbaugh and Kos comments on the military contractors who were killed).

Overall, he sucks because good candidate are less likely to want to run because anything that say can be twisted by these bloggers and they get nasty people, who ask comments like "did you spit on your first wife" but overall unfortunately while he lowers the discourse, in his current role he is good for the Democratic party. That could change and probably will if he tries to be kingmaker.

Once again Mr. Snitch you are taking my comments out of context. You claimed that I was criticizing Ford for being religious, anti-gay marriage, and was advocating a purity test for the Democratic party when nothing further could be true.

(1) As I demonstrated in my response I was citing a Republican blog and it doesn't criticize Ford's positions other than to suggest he might have been less than truthful about them.

(2) The blog that I cite to shows that Carville is a hypocrite as he (not me) criticizes Republicans for being anti-gay marriage by calling them anti-gay and criticizing Republicans for being pro-life in 2004 but then he touts a candidate in 2006 who holds the same views.

You have proven a that you lack the ability to read carefully and not take comments out of context. I am a Republican and I don't appreciate being called part of the left. You didn't disagree with me, you misunderstood what I was writing.

Mister Snitch, you are correct. I overreacted to your comments which had taken my remarks out of context and for that I apologize.

Fester, that language is inappropriate. We can dislike people like Kos and Carville without resorting to their level of rhetoric.