Copernicus put up an insightful diary about Kerry's ludicrous op/ed piece where he, in my opinion, supported Bush in his out and out occupation and subjugation of Iraq. In said diary, he compared it with a Nader article.
Unfortunately for Copernicus, this resulted in lots of ones, a zero or two and lots of derision. This is just ridiculous.
I've not seen anything from Kos or anywhere that says this site is anything other than a place to discuss and review news articles with a liberal or Democratic slant; but more and more, I'm seeing some real squelching of views that don't hold that Kerry is anything but the second coming of Neo.
This is highlighted by derision for anyone who:
1) doesn't forget that Kerry voted for the Iraq invasion
or
- doesn't accept Kerry hamfisted spinning of his voting for the Iraq invasion
- thinks that Nader has some good ideas especially the idea that Dems are no different from Reps in that they are predominantly rich, white guys who are bought and sold by corporations.
- doesn't blindly adhere to the idea that it was, if not solely, then greatly due to Nader's running in 2000 that lost Gore the election.
- would like to see Kerry out there leading instead of laying back and hoping that Bush implodes on his own.
- thinks that Howard Dean was the second coming of Neo and the Dems were the Smiths who brought him down for the Machines.
Now correct me if I'm wrong but the Kerry people actually withdrew their advertising from the Kos site because Kos spoke his mind and didn't kowtow. In my opinion, Kerry is not worth supporting and the only reason to vote for him is that he's not Bush.
I'm still trying to convince myself that he's even worth that. The inside-the-beltway noodniks here who keep trying to zero out people who don't kowtow to the "Kerry is Neo" meme are making that so very hard for me because it seems that everyone loves to pay lipservice to the "big tent" speak but when it comes to actually tolerating others under that big tent, its just not worth it and those "others" need to get zero'ed out in a hurry.
Please inform me, I really want to know: