Dean Esmay's blog

Well, Republicans may have made a lot of mistakes in the last couple of years, but they're generally not stupid. I predicted months ago that Republicans would soon begin combing the far-left hate-blog Daily Kos as part of their opposition research for the upcoming elections. They would be idiots not to. Prominent Democrats from all over the country have openly aligned with Markos and his group of Blame America First defeatists. Voters have every right to know that information before they walk into the voting booth.

And so, I note, it has begun with the first in-depth look at what Markos and his sycophantic crew of crypto-nazis are really all about.

I notice there are a lot of blasts at whiny defeatist Ned "Hamsher and Markos's Lapdog" Lamont, too. Good. The Lamont Democrats have not yet gotten a tenth the kicking around they deserve. They are are vicious beyond belief. They need to be exposed to the world, for they've been given the role of "kingmakers" in today's Democratic Party. The Democratic Party therefore needs to either answer directly for that, or embrace it and explain why it's a good thing that hatemongering idiots like Markos and his hordes are the future of their party.

Martin Peretz wrote an excellent editorial Monday noting that Connecticut's would-be Senator Ned Lamont is Karl Rove's dream Democrat: shallow to the extreme, a one-trick pony candidate who displays all the depth of a rainpuddle when it comes to the situations in places like Iraq and Iran.

All of that is quite true of course. But Peretz left out the most important fact about Ned Lamont: he's nothing but the lapdog of the most hateful, unhinged fringe leftists in the blogosphere, like Jane Hamsher and Markos Moulitsas Zúniga.

Mark Finkelstein notes that Markos Moulitsas Zúniga is strangely coy about his close personal friendship and tireless promotion of his lapdog Ned Lamont. Why might that be? Hmm, let me think: could it be that if he acknowledged the relationship openly, Ned Lamont might have to answer for so many of the vicious, hateful, and just plain lunatic fringe stuff that appears regularly on his blogger-buddy web sites?