Losing the Audience
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Get a load of John Aravosis. After unloading on the Senators of his own Democratic Party for their ill-conceived bid to filibuster Sam Alito, Aravosis takes a dump on the front porch of Lurch's ski lodge:

8. John Kerry is using you.

A leader who uses you for his own personal gain - who plays on your understandable angst and tricks you into supporting a filibuster with no plan whatsoever for victory, who has no plan to win the war of public opinion regardless of the outcome of the vote, who simply is doing this because he wants to win the Netroots' support for his 2008 presidential campaign, to hell with how much it hurts the very goals that Netroots wants to achieve - is no leader in my book.

Tell me WHY a filibuster done RIGHT NOW and in the manner Mr. Kerry is proposing actually MAKES SENSE, actually BENEFITS the Democratic party and the goals of the Netroots, and you'll have my support.

But don't expect me to jump on the bandwagon when that bandwagon is running off a cliff, simply because it would make some of you more comfortable to have me join you on the way down.

I dislike the term "netroots," but the liberal and Leftist bloggers certainly seem to think that they have the key to something. Maybe the good experience they had raising money for Dr. Dean on the Internet has convinced them that anything is possible online. But they are avoiding the fact that the Democratic Party's base doesn't spend time online arguing policy and scandals. In fact, the Democratic Party's base doesn't know these fringe artists and craphounds in the blogosphere from a hole in the ground.

So, John Kerry and Ted Kennedy are commenting over at the Daily Kos? What a weird and desperate thing to do. These clowns should be listening to the moderates, but they're too busy playing games. Losers.