Newsweek Online interviews Kos

Newsweek online has an interview with left-wing blogger "Kos" who demonstrates some political perspicacity, but basically shows why Howard Dean/Nancy Pelosi wing of the Dem keeps dropping the ball. They and Kos are too angry, too Ahab-like to overcome their own strong hatreds and obsessions.

Kos on McCain:

He’s hated by the GOP. They consider him a traitor on any number of issues. He fought the White House on the torture issue. He’s like the Joe Lieberman of their party. We [Democrats] hate Lieberman. Lieberman is going to get a primary challenger for his Senate seat next year if me and a lot of grass-roots groups have our way.

The shrinks call it projecting when a nutcase like Kos thinks the Republicans hate as much as the “passionate” wing of the Dems, read Pelosi/Boxer/Feinstein/Dean/Reid are ruled by unbridled blinding emotions that destroy their brainpower.

Kos doesn’t get it on Iraq either:

The problem is that part of the Democratic caucus thinks it’s manly and tough to be for the war. They are afraid to basically state what the reality on the ground is.

Which says that part of the Democratic caucus is smart enough to understand that the “reality on the ground” isn’t as bad as the ultra-left MSM says it is.

The Democratic caucus should have rallied behind Murtha. That was all the cover they needed to come out on this issue. But they were sill weak.

Read why Bush’s polls have rebounded and even the WaPo admits it is because Murtha/Pelosi/Dean on Iraq were a flash in the pan. The public doesn’t buy defeatism.

Kos on Clinton:

She has every position. John Kerry had the same problem. Voters look at that and say she’s taking every position, so in other words, she stands for nothing—that’s why “Netroots” don’t like Hillary.

Can you define Netroots for us?

Netroots are the crazy political junkies that hang out in blogs. They’re people who use technology to participate in politics. They do a lot offline, but they do their organizing online. The issue of whether you’re liberal or conservative is not relevant to us. The issue is: Are you proud to be a Democrat? Are you partisan? Will you take the fight to the enemy? Will you roll over when the Republicans say boo?

Yes, Kos represents the crazy angry left that Newsweek online represents----Jonathan Alter and Eleanor Clift and probably Susanna Schrobsdorff, who asked the questions of Kos.

Unless the majority of country goes collectively mad, a la Russia in 1917 or Germany in 1933, we won’t see a ultra-left Dem in 2008, although Kos is placing his bet on Mark Warner who is centrist enough to actually have a chance. As is Hillary Clinton, even though evidently she is too flexible for the nutcase left Kos speaks to on a daily basis.