Exposing the Kos Konvention

Dennis Byrne:

The YearlyKos presidential forum here in Chicago did such a wonderful job of spotlighting the extreme elements of the Democratic Party that conservatives should hope that they make it a monthly, even weekly, event.

Consider: It really takes something to make Hilary Clinton look good, but the leftwing bloggers who partake of the poisonous rhetoric that flows on the Daily Kos web site pulled it off. Of course, making Clinton look good isn't saying much when you're sharing the debating stage with the other Democratic candidates, there to kowtow to their base.

When Clinton spoke the truth at the forum about lobbying practices in Washington, the crowd roundly booed her. Asked about taking campaign money from lobbyists, she pointed out that lobbyists "represent real Americans. They actually do. They represent nurses, they represent, you know, social workers. They represent--yes they represent corporations that employ a lot of people."

See, right there she stepped in it, not just on the lobbying thing, but acknowledging what the lefties don't want to hear: Corporations, for all their faults, do something good; they give people jobs.

Amid the boos, she might have added--if she could had been heard--that people make their livings representing them too. There are abortion industry lobbyists, twisting arms for "a woman's right to choose." Other lobbyists are prowling the halls of Congress on behalf 12 million illegal aliens yearning (we're told) for citizenship, universal health care, global (un)warming, family farmers, teachers--I could go on forever listing lobbyists who are excused or ignored by the left because they are doing it for "good causes."

John Edwards, one of the blogapalooza's favorites, thought he issued a stunning rebuke to Clinton by asking a rhetorical question of the crowd: "How many people in this room have a Washington lobbyist working for you?" If there were any seniors there, they could have responded: "AARP!" which is one of Washington's most powerful lobbies.

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Clinton discovered what conservatives long have known: talking to lefties is like trying to talk to children. Rational argument and facts don't impress. That's why Clinton has been taken to task for her very sensible response to Sen. Barack Obama's idiotic promise that as president he would quickly meet with Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and North Korea's Kim Jong-Il. Clinton correctly asked why she should lend the prestige of the presidency to these people who, incidentally, would not have tolerated the existence of any challenges to their authority, like a Kos-fest, unless, of course, Kos bloggers agreed with their policies.

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Kos really heads a regressive movement. Their language is vile and primitive. Their politics is as immune to public debate as a discussion of religion at an al Qaeda convention. While they merely shout down the infidels instead of beheading them their level of intolerance is still pretty high. Note the anger they showed at a soldier who asked questions about their policy positions. that was one troop they definitely were not supporting. While they have given voice to a rebirth of liberalism, that is probably not a good thing for liberals. It has not been a good way to get elected and this group is cruising for a McGovern like disaster.