Posted on 07/28/2007 11:08:46 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
The second annual gathering of the Daily Kos political blog starts this week in Chicago, and here's all you need to know about how influential the YearlyKos convention has become: Five top presidential candidates are going -- including front-runner Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, even though the Kos bloggers don't like her that much.
Analysts say the community of liberal online activists -- the "netroots" -- has become not only a coveted constituency for the left but a legitimate threat to conservatives, who trail Democrats in online campaigning and fundraising.
Another sign of the growing power of the Daily Kos convention is that none of the attending Democratic hopefuls -- including Sens. Barack Obama and Chris Dodd, former Sen. John Edwards and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson -- are scheduled to appear at the Democratic Leadership Council gathering this weekend in Tennessee. The DLC is the moderate organization that former President Bill Clinton led for two years before beginning his successful campaign for the White House in 1992.
"It's hilarious that (Hillary Clinton's) not even attending her own group," said Markos Moulitsas, the Berkeley resident who founded Daily Kos in 2002, and whose nickname, "Kos," supplies the moniker for the blog where 500,000 regularly visit.
Most liberal bloggers detest Clinton for her 2002 vote authorizing President Bush to pursue military action in Iraq. In Daily Kos' monthly presidential straw polls, "No Freaking Clue" frequently has drawn more votes than Clinton.
Yet Clinton's relationship with liberal bloggers may be starting to thaw...
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"It reminds me of 1972, when the left wing of the (Democratic) party took over," Taylor said, referring to former President Richard Nixon's landslide victory over Democratic Sen. George McGovern. The influence of the netroots "show that they've taken over the party now. And that's bad for the country, because we (conservatives) view the war in Iraq as essential to the war on terror."
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Yawn!...We can out blog liberal bloggers any day....After all, we chopped amnesty off at the knees...go for it liberal bloggers...make my day!
Excellent work Kristinn, as usual.
I wonder where these people would be if not for Iraq.
I talked to my soon to be 13 yr old today on the phone, and she just heard that Hillary was running for president. Can you believe that?
Good grief, when I was her age, my friends and I used laugh about Jimmy “liverlips” Carter! We were too young to campaign or anything, but at least we knew what was going on. I sure don’t want her to end up being a liberal idiot.
Thank you guys for your good work. I hope my girl wakes up and smells the soda pop.
I don’t think the liberals have a “grass roots” fund raiser on line. I have no evidence but my gut is telling me it is an elaborate system to launder money from big hitters and make it look like grass roots activity.
Everything the rats do is scripted from the top. I don’t believe this is any different.
By the time the General comes around Hillary will be to the right of Reagan.
And the lunatics on the left will love her for her courage.
all the lib/dems going to the daily kos convention...
akin to the muzzies going to mecca...
all lib/dems MUST pay homage to their shadow God.....george soros!!!
Sacre bleu! The reporter accurately quoted me and didn’t take my statements out of context!
In this case, ignorance is bliss!
Thank you.
And let you keep your gender, too!
Thanks for posting. Great quote, kristinn. BTTT!
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