Dan Gerstein's article

(http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0207/2787.html)

over at Politico magazine sums this up perfectly:

"Throughout the course of the controversy, the left’s bigger digital diatribers never stopped to address the substance of what the Edwards bloggers actually wrote before joining the campaign. Had the bloggers done so, they might have found the postings were widely deemed by Democrats and Republicans alike as bigoted and patently offensive to many Christians, not just devout Catholics or evangelicals.

Nor did they ever stop to think how hollow and hypocritical it sounded for the same people who ravaged George Allen, for his “macaca” moment in last year’s Virginia Senate campaign to cry “free speech” when confronted with a far more nasty, vulgar, and hurtful display of prejudice from two of their own."

Just on their political record alone, the triangulatin' Dems ought to have figured out by now that the nutroots exist to drag the party into oblivion, and as long as candidates keep attributing anything other than sheer horror to the notion that they are being backed by the Kossacks, they can't touch the White House.

Notice that even with his mid 30's approval rating as a lame duck, Bush is still setting both the domestic and foreign policy agendas at every turn and the Dems are reduced to meaningless non-binding non-attacks.

So far all the nutroots have managed to do is destroy the political careers of Howard Dean, Ned Lamont, and now John Edwards. Shouldn't that be enough for both the bloggers AND the Dems to figure out that they are clearly doing something horrendously wrong?

Shouldn't that be enough for both the bloggers AND the Dems to figure out that they are clearly doing something horrendously wrong?

You'll rarely go wrong betting on tone-deaf stupidity from democrats.