Russ Feingold of Wisconsin for president in 2008. In one recent straw poll, Kos readers preferred Democratic Sen. Still, the site is a barometer of liberal activists. If anything is two hours old, it's too old already.' 'Something that's five minutes old, it's already an old news cycle already. 'We measure our news cycles by five minutes,' he said. The permanence of the blog is not one of its strong suits. 'But it is really hard to have a coherent, major argument in a blog. 'Sure, I can blog it, and I've blogged a lot of what is in the book,' Moulitsas said. There is too much emphasis on what the party can do for them, and not enough on what they can for the party.' So can't everybody read that on the blog? For free? Or, as Moulitsas and his co-author, Jerome Armstrong, the blogger behind the popular write: 'On our side, the issue groups and the identity groups are the Democratic Party. The party is light years behind its Republican counterparts in organization and is being pulled limb from limb in a tug-of-war between its single-issue constituencies such as abortion-rights advocates, environmentalists and African Americans. Moulitsas' book is a hard-bound distillation of a regular topic on Daily Kos: Liberals, especially those in the Democratic Party, are mired in their 1970s glory days and woefully out of touch. Their message should be that the progressive movement must change radically before it can compete with Republicans, he said.

And then when all of that is done, I want them to turn off the computer, walk outside and talk to real people.' 'I want them to come to Daily Kos, learn about what's happening in the country. I want them to be activists,' Moulitsas said. But he figures they can influence them by creating buzz for little-known races and pressing the mainstream media to report on untold stories.Īnd eventually, he says, the online ranters have to get out of their jammies.

Then you're angry and crazy and a lunatic, because God forbid if you say something off-the-cuff and not prepackaged.'ĭespite all the hype about bloggers since they surfaced during the 2004 campaign, Moulitsas knows they can't win elections. 'If he says something remotely passionate, then they turn into Howard Dean. '(They'll) never tell you anything interesting, because this is such a risk-averse business,' Kos said. I can be a good backseat driver, but politically, I'm not a very good driver.'Īnd not only does he brush off solicitations from campaign operatives, the former Howard Dean adviser doesn't want to talk to candidates, either. I can point out when things are going wrong. Supreme Court ruling that decided the 2000 presidential election.Īsked how liberals should attack South Dakota's strict new abortion prohibitions, Moulitsas said, 'From a strategy perspective, I'm not as good. Moulitsas is not a pundit nor a strategist, and he doesn't want to be a spokesman for a new generation known as 'the netroots' - the Internet-connected activists who got involved in politics in the wake of the U.S. The headliner addressing this in-person gathering of the blog's faithful: Senate Minority Leader Sen. This summer, the kid who regularly got beat up in high school for being a 110-pound nerd with a Spanish accent will host the first Yearly Kos convention in Las Vegas.

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