red states rule
08-18-2007, 01:26 PM
The liberal media loves to report stories about Republicnas fighting other Republicans and saying how it will tear the Republican party apart
But when it is their beloved Dems at war with each other - the liberal media does not report that with the same level of glee. They try to bury the story
In case you missed it - here is the kook left VS the center left
Democratic Party refs a faction fight
By Donald Lambro
August 18, 2007
The feud between left-wing bloggers and the centrist-leaning Democratic Leadership Council is getting hotter at a time when activists on both sides say party unity is critical to winning back the White House next year.
The groups held dueling conferences this month, and the Yearly Kos Convention clearly came out on top. It drew 1,500 liberal activists — including 500 bloggers — 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.
The DLC drew 350 elected officials to its conference but was snubbed by all the presidential candidates. However, Mrs. Clinton's husband, a former DLC chairman, delivered the keynote speech.
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 "Republican-lite," as opposed to true Democrats.
"The DLC doesn't want a victorious Democratic Party unless such victories happen using their formula. We've been there, done that, and it simply didn't work," Mr. Moulitsas wrote in his blog last week. "Even working out of their own playbook, we couldn'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."
Proclaiming that the left's bloggers were responsible for last year's Democratic takeover of the House and Senate, he added: "We helped build this majority. Not the DLC's 350 or so members. This is no longer their party. And as such, we can look forward to finally being truly competitive for years to come."
That salvo at the DLC was triggered by an op-ed column in The Washington Post written by two DLC leaders — Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley and former Tennessee Rep. Harold E. Ford Jr., the DLC's national chairman — who extolled the importance of appealing to middle-of-the-road, swing voters.
"Some on the left would love to pretend that groups such as the DLC, the party's leading centrist voice, aren't needed anymore," they wrote.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070818/NATION/108180054/1001
But when it is their beloved Dems at war with each other - the liberal media does not report that with the same level of glee. They try to bury the story
In case you missed it - here is the kook left VS the center left
Democratic Party refs a faction fight
By Donald Lambro
August 18, 2007
The feud between left-wing bloggers and the centrist-leaning Democratic Leadership Council is getting hotter at a time when activists on both sides say party unity is critical to winning back the White House next year.
The groups held dueling conferences this month, and the Yearly Kos Convention clearly came out on top. It drew 1,500 liberal activists — including 500 bloggers — 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.
The DLC drew 350 elected officials to its conference but was snubbed by all the presidential candidates. However, Mrs. Clinton's husband, a former DLC chairman, delivered the keynote speech.
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 "Republican-lite," as opposed to true Democrats.
"The DLC doesn't want a victorious Democratic Party unless such victories happen using their formula. We've been there, done that, and it simply didn't work," Mr. Moulitsas wrote in his blog last week. "Even working out of their own playbook, we couldn'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."
Proclaiming that the left's bloggers were responsible for last year's Democratic takeover of the House and Senate, he added: "We helped build this majority. Not the DLC's 350 or so members. This is no longer their party. And as such, we can look forward to finally being truly competitive for years to come."
That salvo at the DLC was triggered by an op-ed column in The Washington Post written by two DLC leaders — Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley and former Tennessee Rep. Harold E. Ford Jr., the DLC's national chairman — who extolled the importance of appealing to middle-of-the-road, swing voters.
"Some on the left would love to pretend that groups such as the DLC, the party's leading centrist voice, aren't needed anymore," they wrote.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070818/NATION/108180054/1001