So, I get into the office today at
Jeff Seemann's HQ to an email from the American Spectator. They dropped an article about Congressional Campaigns using blogs...
The title (get this)...
Bloodsucking Fiends
Not even kidding, read below for more "objectivity."
UPDATE:
American Spectator journalist David Weigel who wrote the article talks about this diary on his own personal blog
The article mentions three of the Kos 8 specifically: Seemann, Matsunaka, and Newberry.
Here's one of the quotes that made me laugh:
"...underdog Democratic campaigns that are raising money on the Internet -- from people who don't care that it's going to waste."
Markos defended the process:
"The DC Democrats can pore over their little list of '20 targeted races,'" Zuniga wrote in June. "I want to hit Republicans in the rear lines. And if we hit them in enough places, with ferocious intensity, eventually we're going to bag our own version of Rostenkowski or Foley."
Then, they were nice enough to include a link to Jeff's contribute page while discussing a past fundraising idea of the campaign. THANKS GUYS!
As if to rebut the efforts of the Daily Kos 8, in a drama that has played out on the main page at times, the DCCC weighed in:
"the national party 'will support only those candidates who are running campaigns that can win."
But don't worry, because the Spectator summed it up at the end, saying that we here at the Daily Kos support candidates who reflect the chip we have on our own shoulders. Despite the fact that most of us will, "meet Dean's fate."