Stupid Lefty Blogs

Ahem, now that I’ve got your attention…

I’ve been observing the political blogs on the left lately as they grapple with an increasingly bitter division between Hillary supporters and Obama supporters. And I think it illustrates why such blogs can be so dangerous for your mental health.

There are plenty of people on both sides of the political divide who warn that this protracted fight between Clinton and Obama is going to be bad, bad, bad for Democrats this fall. And I’ll admit, it looks a bit ugly right now.

We’ve got Jerome Armstrong of MyDD, a blog for which I have very high regard, sounding increasingly paranoid as he drops ominous hints about restricting which readers can comment on the blog—an obvious reaction to the many Obama fans that are giving him a very rough time for his support of Hillary.

And we’ve got a number of bloggers at the DailyKos site sounding alarmingly like Republicans in their trumpeting of the latest LIES that Hillary has told.

I’m not the first to say it, but these people should attempt to be cool.

Look at where we are today. Stories last a day, sometimes less, and then whither away like sun-bleached flowers. Cable news talking heads pound each little mini-scandal into the ground relentlessly, trying to fill hours until something, anything, new comes along to generate more hot air. Each candidate has a whole army of spinmeisters to feed talking points to the media, which too often regurgitates them whole.

It’s a circus.

Again, I’m not the first to say it. But especially on the Democratic side, this suspended animation, this waiting until the Pennsylvania primary FINALLY gives us something concrete to talk about, is just driving everybody a little batty. Eventually this is going to be sorted out and the Dems will unite behind whichever nominee emerges.

One other little thing that’s been bugging me. Maybe no one remembers, but back around the time of the Michigan primary, Kos (founder of Daily Kos) told Democrats that since only one Dem was on the blacklisted Michigan primary ballot, they should cross over and vote for Mitt Romney in order to stop the McCain momentum. Kos reasoned that this would be “fun,” and that it was OK to do because Republicans stoop to such tricks all the time.

Now that Rush Limbaugh has thrown his considerable weight behind the idea of Republicans voting for Clinton in order to stop Obama’s march to the nomination, I wonder what Kos thinks of such an idea today? I will probably continue to wonder, because Kos has been strangely silent on the topic. I think fans of Kos should remember this as an example of where blind partisanship can lead one off a cliff. And anyway, the “they did it first” line is one of the worst (and most childish) excuses in the books. We should all be better than that.

Anyhow, as you were…