Centerfield

Sounds like Kos is taking strategy tips from the Koran now.

No. That's not even remotely like what Kos said. To quote someone else, "Kos is comparing the NDN and the DLC. Both are centrist organizations, but Kos likes the NDN's more conciliatory approach to other factions within the party than Al From's screaming arrogance."

Could you imagine the political massacre that would have occured if people like Kos and Howard Dean where to mouthpieces of the Democratic Party? Great idea... Throw away the only faction of your party that has one a national election in the last thirty years.

I agree with Greg... I have doubts about Kos's stability. Yikes...

If Kos wrote a post saying the NDN is better than the DLC, that would be great -- a pretty mild point, I would think.

Instead, he wrote a post called "Time for the DLC to Die", including the following:

As for the DLC, it's time to euthenize the organization. Whatever role it may have played is spent. As of now, it's the single most divisive Dem-affiliated organization, refusing to play nice with others even in these desperate ABB times. As such, it deserves nothing but exclusion and ridicule.

There's some very strange logic at play here. Kos and his readers routinely attack centrist Democrats for not being liberal enough. That's a natural position for them to take -- there is a difference in ideas between their approach to government and the one centrists prefer.

Centrist Democrats, in turn, attack liberals for being too liberal.

Kos can't argue that the death penalty is in order for the DLC based on divisiveness -- not unless he wants to repudiate his own rhetoric of the last many months.

Liberals and centrists disagree. Kos has done it heatedly at times -- as pointedly as anything I've seen from Al From. Where does he get off deciding who's "divisive" and who isn't?

A guy named Steve, who was apparently a Clark supporter, makes the point nicely in Kos's comments.

Doesn't Kos wish! He's long on denial!

What Greg said. I'll also point out that having people annoyed at you is often a sign of success.

Let's have the centrists kicked out of the Democratic Party. Let's see how many votes the "pure" Democrats would get--10 or 20? Seems I remember a "pure" Democrat named George McGovern who carried one state. I guess to the liberals that would be better than having to put up with us disgusting moderates. Of course, maybe they have it right--the Republican right wing effectively kicked out the moderates and look what happened to them! What we need are two extremist parties, one left and one right, and ignore the people in the middle, who are too wishy-washy to deserve representation.