party haven't served in uniform.

Markos may not be the center, but he does average out to the center, at least when I listen to former Republicans...

The truth is that America is better than we think she is, is more progressive, is more tolerant. It's the propagandists on the right that have moved the country down out of the realm of civil discourse.

... and, I do know my social psychology. I am much more likely to troll rate someone insulting someone I like than someone I don't like, as the insult will be closer to my own views.

I include folks like sricki in the earlier category, and folks like you, who troll-rated me for something that wasn't in the User Policies (however justified) in the latter.

You've been on about as long as I have. Kos posts on here (is there a search button here?)

No, sorry, not leaving. You can, if you're sick of me ;0)

i'm not sure what your argument is. It's really basically a logical fallacy.

Because he grew up at a time that Reagan had a strong influence on this country (he was a pimpled faced kid at the time) it's understandable that he was influenced by him. I'm pretty sure his first vote for president was actually cast for Bush Sr., then he changed party alliances while in the army.

I for one voted my first presidential election for a Republican. Something I came to regret AND be embarrassed about. That doesn't make me less of a  progressive today. On the contrary, it made me revolt against everything I had at one time believed to be true.

In any regard, there's nothing wrong with supporting JRE and then changing your mind and supporting BHO. Although I think you are wrong here. Markos was partial to Dodd if I remember correctly. Not that it matters...

anyhow, you go on feeling some contempt at ex-republican voters who have changed allegiances and made great strides for the Democratic party.

pure-as-driven-snow

And what matters now is who he supports, not who he supported 20-28 years ago.

... who writes about why people should register Republican (okay, so he does that on his own blog).

His posts on kos are invariably interesting and well-thought-out.

He's voting Obama this year.

Actually, I think DKos is more moderate than many claim.  In poll after poll, we find that public oppinion tends to hang more to the left on most issues than what the common wisdom considers 'the center'.  Certainly, DKos is a progressive blog and thus left of center, but it represents a wide range of views within the progressive spectrum and is hardly the 'radical left' blog that the wingnut pundits like to label it.

From where I'm standing, the real division was more about party process... bottom up grass roots activism vs top down DLC traditional party leadership.  The DLC sometimes leanes more to the center on issues, perhaps giving the impression that DKos is 'more to the left', but as a grass roots driven blog, I feel DKos is more in tune with popular sentiment than the DLC leadership.  If that was not the case, the DLC candidate might have won.

Cheers.

The point is that no one on the Democratic side has even made the effort to tell the other side of the story on this one.

If you accept the story that shortly after 9/11, the US Government went to the telecom companies and said "we need your help to stop another attack, our national security depends on it" and the telecom companies went along, then yeah, I can see where Mom and Pop might agree that the telecoms shouldn't be put out of business for that.

But as I think we all know, that's not the only side to the story.  In fact, in reality none of us has any idea exactly what conduct has now been immunized.  But when we don't fight the Republicans, guess what, only their side of the story gets told.

not actually enforcing anything. ;-)