From
today's Salon.com letters section on Walsh's Dean article:
Joan Walsh seems to have completely missed Dean's impact on liberals. "Taking down Rove is hard work and if you're having fun you're not doing it right," she says. She's wrong: Taking down Rove and Co. is hard work and is fun, when roving packs of blogging liberals donate to Senate campaigns in Kentucky, South Dakota and other hot spots. To wit: The stunning Dem success of the KY6 special runoff campaign this past Tuesday [when Ben Chandler won a congressional seat in Kentucky] was aided by the dollars and passion of liberal Deaniacs.
I can't think of a better way to sustain a movement than through community -- be it online or otherwise -- and dollars and fun. With even the occasional "YEAHRRRHG!" thrown in for good measure. The rest of the dour Dems can sit home making google eyes at Edwards or Kerry -- I'm continuing to take my party back.
-- Margaret Weigel
Is it one of us? Will someone step forward to take credit? I sent a long letter as well, and didn't get published, so I'm hoping that one of my fellow Kossacks did.