eBattleground, Part 2

I still stand by what I said in my original "eBattleground" post, but I think there may be another aspect that should be pointed out.

Some of the nuttier elements at the daily kos, as well as other web sites such as moveon.org, do hold a tremendous amount of sway with the liberal left. All of the major democratic Presidential hopefulls will attend and speak at the yearly kos convention this year, and you can expect them to toe the line with the far left lunatic crowd for fear of being attacked by them.

Already many democratic and liberal politicians fall right in line and do pretty much whatever is demanded of them by this far left crowd, because they don't want to be attacked in the media, and have their political careers harmed in the process. These people will dictate to our supposed leaders where they will stand on the issues, and what news programs they are allowed to appear on, and if any one of them has the guts to stand up to these people, they will be viciously attacked in blogs and far left columns across the country. Unfortunately, enough people buy into what these blogs and such are selling that the politicians feel that they have no choice but to kowtow to these people.

We all tend to worry about politicians getting funds from special interest groups and therefore being beholden to them once the get in office (see all the campaign finance reform stuff of late) but what do you expect from someone, once they take office, who was too afraid to stand up to a given group of people when they are running for office? If they didn't have any backbone during the campaign, they won't have any after it, you can count on that.

If there were a republican who was too afraid to take a position contrary to Rush Limbaugh, or Ann Coulter, or whomever, not only would they get pounded by the media, they would be abandoned by the party faithful as the spineless coward they were. I for one wouldn't vote for someone like that.

Anyway, I thought this part of the deal needed to be clarified, and I hope it makes everyone think about it.