Kos Dances on the Nader Campaign's Grave

Markos Moulitas is nothing but an opportunist. I quit reading DKos a long time ago, since his site deigned to be arbiter of all things Democrat, and became abusive to whomever they saw as not touting their version of the party line. That in itself is disconcerting, but coming as it did from a former Republican like Kos, it's positively repulsive.

If the pro war Daily Kos run by a former Army soldier (HELLO!!!) want Obama to invade any country like their fellow Democrats McCain and Kerry let 'em! Just don't punish the progressives for the mess the wefare/warfare statist queens like Reid, Pelosi, and NOW Gulp! OBAMA want to KEEP as the status quo. McCain/Lieberman/O'bomba/Biden... Where the HELL IS the "change"??? Absolutley NONE!!! Unless of course you like to drink Kool-Aid, and we know where that took the Republicans the last eight years! Obama should he continue this mess will be gone in four! The people DO want CHANGE in policy, not just in who pushes the same rhetoric and works to handout Billions to Wall St. on the backs and pockets of Main St.

sweetness

Give me the death penalty, I voted for Nader.

Kos sold-out.

The Nader campaign did cost Obama Missouri. He would have had 376 EV's without Nader siphoning off votes there.

hopesprings52 - uhhh I guess you forgot that the Dems including Kerry and Rahm Emanuel voted for the Iraq war.

So what exactly is the diff between the 2 parties?
Dems should have backed Nader in 2000. He was the smartest, most dedicated guy on the ballot. You fools wasted your vote on tools like Gore and Kerry. If you voted for those 2, then you are the ones who wasted your vote.

So, I am a bad peron because I voted for the best candidate.
Hmm, seems we should be angry at the fools who voted for tools like Gore and Kerry.

It seems to me that Ralph was right again when he said that the democrats only serve big corporate interests. Seems like his old nemesis GM has a hand out for some big pork pie! Mmm-mmm Good! I'll pay for that piece, Mr. Wagoner! Hope you and Mr. Gettelfinger have another big helping without that nasty Ralph Nader seeing you sneak a second $25 billion piece of pork pie!
Ha!

Grow up America. Kos's point is correct and any of you who agree with him but bemoan his language needs to get a grip.

It is a word used to make his point emphatically . Seems to have worked. If you do not like it Cheneyoff.

Kos is giving progressives a bad name. While I don't always agree with Ralph Nader, I do respect him. He alway tells the truth as he sees it, regardless of political consequence. Mr. " a different sort of politics" Obama took in unprecedented amounts of money from corporate and wall street interests. Not so different after all. I think we always need a Ralph Nader calling it like it is. Kos is on his way to becoming the progressive equivalent to Limbaugh's conservative.

seems to me to simply be a statement of the obvious. where's the news in that?

How many Kos columns have run in Newsweek this year?

"For those who are unconvinced that our country is at best a center-right country, just look at the election results. In spite of the completely broken GOP brand, the McCain Camp was basically neck-and-neck with the Obama camp before the financial tsunami. And in spite of the financial tsunami, the McCain camp still managed to garner close to 47% of the popular votes and Obama barely won in N Carolina and Indiana."

I agree...and unless Obummer shifts toward the center, he will be a lame 1 term president, like Jimmy Carter, thank God! Independents will be sick of his bullcrap long before then!

I would hate to see a group of bloggers determine who can run for president?

I didn’t see the outrage from the right about Ross Perot. (At least, we didn’t use profanity- in public.)

I want this country set up so that any person- who meets the criteria, can run.
Never let Kos or even Rush Limbaugh limit who can run for office.

Kos should be careful. He has had luck with his site and does have democrats showing up for his events. But if Kos continues to rant in this fashion, even democrats might have to take a pass on the Kos.

OK- Let me take all that I said back. I would rather see democrats boycott Kos and a big fight break out.

I agree with the sentiment behind the Kos statement but not the language.
Nader does seem to keep running to feed his ego rather than to make any difference.

Kos is right on the money. I used to like Nader a lot, but whatever he likes to pretend he gave us 8 years of the worst President ever. His position that there's no real difference between Republicans and Democrats is utter garbage. He was in a position to help and he BLEW IT.

I see the old videos we used to watch with my little child of Nader on Sesame Street, remember the old Nader who worked so tirelessly for consumer protection, and cannot for the life of me figure out how he could be so ultimately blind. What a waste of a legacy.

Ralph Nader needs to start running for an office he has an actual chance of winning. Like a Senate seat or Congress.
Look at Al Fraken in his fist run at an office, coming so close to winning in Minnesota. The only thing Ralph accomplish was help somebody win florida in 2000.

LMAO, the KOSKIDDIES, will be calling Obama irrevelant soon as the Clintons are back in power. They will be calling him every racist name in the book. LMAO At the Obama Thugs, you already see who pulls obamies strings lol

The Kos is truthful about Nader here but they could have phrased their remarks a lot more professionally. Kos sounds as screaming, raging nuts here as the man they ridicule - the raging nut Nader. But at least Nader's not screaming. Big difference.