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...any more than FreeRepublic is the voice of mainstream Republican support. One is as radical as the other and if you accept the roar of the extremists on the left with an appreciative ear, then you must grant the same boon to those on the right. The DNC candidates who show up to meet the Kossaks at YearlyKOS are going to be greeted much differently when they show up for the DNC convention. The vociferous masses attending that event are likely to be more mainstream and more likely to vote Democrat instead of pouting and taking their ball home if they don't hear what they want to hear. Those vociferous masses are the ones that already realize that compromise is necessary to the well-functionning of any democracy, and that sacrifices have to be made sometimes for the common good.
The vociferous wing of DailyKOS who attended YearlyKOS, and who - judging by the reports - appear to be the majority of representatives there, are the same brand of self-absorbed blowhards that voted for Nader in 2000 despite knowing that the country's future hung in the balance. They're the same gang of narcissistic fools who would rather say anything, than be heard saying something. As far as I'm concerned, they are just as responsible for the mess BushCo has got us into, as the people who voted them in.
The sad truth is that, if they continue to blindly maintain that the only way to save the country is "their" way, by avoiding compromise and pushing only their agenda to get the neocons out of power, they'll be just as responsible as the Republicans for electing Thompson, or Giuliani, or Romney in 2008. And the truly, truly, sad part is that they still won't have learned the main lesson which is: the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. (Insert major deity or paradigm of personal belief here) help us all then.
ejb
