Ooh, everyone’s afraid of the bloggers. I mean, the Democratic candidates are afraid of the lefty bloggers. I don’t think the Republican candidates are afraid of the righty bloggers. Think that’s a problem?
You can really tell that Kos wants the candidates to be afraid of him. It’s an interesting dynamic. There’s a real paradox to this lefty blogger power. They are so powerful that they are able to hurt the Democratic candidates in all sorts of strange new ways. Meanwhile, the non-lefty bloggers will amuse themselves watching and describing it all.
The problem for the lefty bloggers is that they’ve proven they can hurt the Dems, but they haven’t shown that they can help them. Until the “netroots” notches a few victories on their belts, the relationship will remain tenuous.
