re: #14 Rightwingconspirator

Only until you spend two full seconds at KOS.

As a long time dKos user, I can attest to the fact that LGF is not the same. Granted, we have our wackos over there, and yeah, a lot of people love Keith Olbermann…I’m a long-time fan myself, though I will admit his counter-balancing Beck, O’Reilly, and Hannity has taken a toll on his objectivity. The saving grace of MSNBC right now is Rachel Maddow, who with one exception that I’ve witnessed has treated her guests with respect and always given them an opportunity to state their case without interruption—even if she disagrees with them. But I digress.

dKos has its benefits—it’s a very supportive community, and when a member is in trouble, quickly rallies around that person and supports them however it can. I’ve seen people find housing, jobs, places for their pets when they were evicted, paypal accounts created for them when their house burned, etc.

That being said, we liberal lefties have our share of extremists…the reaction to President Obama’s decision to give Gen. McCrystal 30k troops and 18 months to get his shit together has been pretty awful. And President Obama campaigned on this issue in part—so it’s not like he isn’t just fulfilling another campaign promise: to give the troops in Afghanistan the support they lacked the previous six years while we focused on Iraq. Whether it works or not is anyone’s guess…I’m not all that hopeful myself.

Still, you need to take the good with the bad. When someone goes conspiracy-theorist (bush caused 911, for example), they are quickly banned…Markos and the other FPers there have zero tolerance for conspiracy theory, anti-semitism, and racism. And we hold our blue-dog democrats in as much contempt as you do your Bachmanns and Palins and Becks.

I suppose, to close this out, what Charles has done by openly rejecting the right-wing-nuttitude of the Becks and Palins will ultimately be good for the Republican party, unless his message is ignored and the GOP swings even further to the right. But running on a platform of ‘Say no to anything the black man in the White House wants’ isn’t a recipe for survival. And yet, ‘mavericks’ like McCain are running scared to the far right corner (remember his campaign about working across the aisle if he were president?) to the point where he’s not even brave enough to criticize his former VP running mate when she talks out her ass. She broke him more in four months than the Viet-cong did in 5 1/2 years.

Okay, I’ve rambled enough…thanks for reading.