I want to take this moment to thank Markos over at Daily KOS for being the catylist for this horrorshow of a democratic primary.

Why do I blame KOS?

Because of the primary gaming and the Hillary hatefest.

I know this is old news, but I wanted to add a bit of perspective to it.

Consider that when Markos urged his automatons to game the Michigan primary, we were still in a relatively mild primary season.  Hillary and Obama were playing nice, and we were having a healthy debate on the issues.

Enter Kos.

After urging folks to game the repug primary, things started getting out of hand.  First he started his despicable lies about Hillary (remember 'she darkened obama's skin' idiocy?) and this was just the beginning.

He could have simply let his site be a place where issues could be discussed in full.  A place for all democrats to come together to rationally decide on the best person for the job.  But noooo...instead, he became a paid Obama partisan, squandering the goodwill of fellow dems on this one election season.  He created an environment where anyone who wasn't a total goofball obamaton was shouted down, TR'd and basically rendered a non=person.

What was he promised in return?  A spot in the administration?  A cushy job as a Washington insider?  Finally, a chance to come in from the cold of blogger land to the big bucks of big time politics?

This we may never know.  Suffice it to say that he has screwed himself, and us along with him.

After alegre (luv that girl :), i wonder if she is a hottie?  brains and beauty, both?) led the exodus from Daily kos with the bloggers' strike, markos went ape$hit, throwing everything INCLUDING the kitchen plumbing at Hillary.  It was almost as if he despised the clintons for everything they had done for the democratic party over the last two decades.

ENTER RUSHBOTS

Then, of course, comes rush with his 'vote hillary campaign.  This little plan of his had a two fold aim:

1. To take the attention off the fact that he wasn't influential enough to push McCain out of the race

2. To delegitimize Hillary's honest electoral gains (who really thinks that millions of rethugs voted for Hillary?  not me...it was all smoke and mirrors...)

What was rush's aim?  To simply cause strife between democrats.  He was doing secretly what Markos was doing in the open.  Maybe they're working together, what do I know.  One thing is sure:  by openly gaming the rethug primary (this is not even open to debate, his diary asking us to do it still stands) he gave rush all the excuse he needed to do the same to us.

It makes me wonder if Markos ever really stopped being a republican.  Maybe HE'S the mole we've been looking for.

THANK YOU MARKOS

May you pay one day for this.  I sincerely hope you get your comeuppance.

HILLARY-ALEGRE 08