If you take a sampling of the diaries appearing here some are so bizarre and blatant in their attacks on the leadership of the Democratic party you have to wonder. Clinton of course is trashed all day long but it extends to other leaders as well like Pelosi and Reid who are regularly dismissed as simpletons and incompetents.
Clinton is pulling almost half the votes in the Democratic party presidential primary and is also the wife of the only two term Democratic president since FDR. Reid is a guy who grew up in a tar paper shack in a Nevada mining town and by incredible persistence pulled himself up by his bootstraps and is now the senate majority leader. Pelosi is a member of a long time Democratic family, her father and brother were Democratic mayors of Baltimore, and is the first woman speaker of the House. All three of them have forgotten more about politics than any of the posters at Kos, including myself, have ever known. Despite these stellar backgrounds they are regularly dismissed as dupes, idiots, Bush clones, dino's, deeply corrupt and a load of other things. In fact they are all outstanding and highly credible people with long records of supporting a progressive agenda.
Much of the abuse seems to come from the Edwards and Obama camps who seem to have lost all contact with reality, not to mention basic good manners between representatives of the same party, in pursuit of promoting their own candidates. No claim is too outrageous. They also seem to betray only a passing knowledge of the realities of the US political system, which has some deeply corrupt aspects, and the rules of parliamentary procedure that apply in the two houses of congress. Nor do they seem to demonstrate much political savvy when it comes to interpreting the swirling currents that make up popular opinon among American electors. Some of it would not look at all out of place over at Redstate, Newsbusters, or Malkin. This leads me to question whether there aren't a bunch of trolls out there, agent provocateurs would be a better description, whose role is to post diaries and postings whose aim is to sow dissension and confusion amongst regular visitors to this site. It's hard to escape the conclusion that there aren't at least a few posting here judging by the naivete and hysteria of many of them.
As for the enthusiasts for Edwards or Obama who are getting carried away they perhaps need to ask themselves what all this over the top dissing of the Democratic party's representatives really achieves. Some of it is so juvenile one has to wonder if these people have had jobs, managed anything, tried to sell anything, or otherwise lived and interacted with their fellow citizens in the real world. Some of it, particularly the Clinton diatribes, are deeply sexist as well. It's time we started to recognize this sort of nihilism does not help the interests of the Democratic party who most people here want to see in power and pursuing a progressive and liberal agenda.
This diary won't be popular. Appeals for staying grounded seldom are but I do think we need to be aware of what we are saying and recognize this is a reality based community. OTT postings attacking our leaders and parliamentary tactics need to be treated with the contempt they deserve because you can bet some of them are coming from Republican plants.