Kos is wrong.
David Wade has been called a whole lot worse by Rush Limbaugh and Ken Mehlman, and he's certainly tough enough to take his share of beatings from Markos. Wade prides himself on giving it back hard to any Republican who dares fuck with his boss, so I think he'll happily live with it when people give it back hard to him. He's a tough kid.
You'd think someone like Kos would be praising, not attacking, one of our Party's few flacks with toughness and edge. NO one was complaining when
Wade said:
"The closest Karl Rove ever came to combat was these last months spent worrying his cellmates might rough him up in prison," said Wade. "This porcine political operative can't cut and run from the truth any longer. When it came to Iraq, this administration chose to cut and run from sound intelligence and good diplomacy.... In November, Americans will cut and run from this Republican Congress."
OR
Ken Mehlman's command of the facts is about as real as the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Americans are sick and tired of Ken Mehlman, Karl Rove, and the masters of misdirection who got us bogged down in Iraq with no end in sight, and who have failed to kill Osama bin Laden. If these Republicans were half as good at fighting the war on terror as they are at misleading the American public, we'd be a lot safer than we are today. The day of reckoning for their failed policies is November 7th 2006, and only then will we begin to have leadership that knows how to make America safe."
Good idea, Markos, let's attack our friends.
Bottom line:
Wade's quote in the New York Times today had nothing to do with Chris Bowers whose project is outstanding.
No, Wade was responding to HeyJohn.Org. Anonymous websites are cowardly. HeyJohn.Org is the polar opposite of what DailyKos does well, which is have a public dialogue.
When Wade said that "real net-roots activists know how hard John Kerry has fought to win these elections" he was referring specifically to the posts Jerome Armstrong, Taylor Marsh, and others wrote defending Kerry's record of supporting Democrats these last years. It had absolutely nothing to do with Chris Bowers.
Folks, Democrats who raise millions and millions of dollars for other Democrats are not the enemy. And neither are the professionals who work for them.
Update: I had to leave for class very shortly after I posted this and didn't realize that I had omitted this from my post.
Casey Morris, disclosure: After years of volunteering for John Kerry, I now work for Friends of John Kerry. And I am damn proud of it.