He's SOOOOOOOOOOOO Correct

From the NY Times (hat tip Prof. Althouse)

On the left in particular, bloggers have emerged as something of a police force guarding against disloyalty among Democrats, as Steve Elmendorf, a Democratic consultant, learned after he told The Washington Post that bloggers and online donors "are not representative of the majority you need to win elections."

A Daily Kos blogger wrote: "Not one dime, ladies and gentlemen, to anything connected with Steve Elmendorf. Anyone stupid enough to actually give a quote like that deserves to have every single one of his funding sources dry up." Asked about the episode, Mr. Elmendorf insisted the posting had not hurt his business, but added contritely: "Since I got attacked on them, I read blogs a lot more and I find them very useful."

One of the big challenges to the campaigns is not only adjusting to the changes of the past two years but also to anticipate now the kind of technological changes that might be on hand by the next presidential campaign. Among those most cited are the ability of campaigns to beam video campaign advertisements to cell phones.

"All these consultants are still trying to make sense of what blogs are, and I think by 2008 they are going to have a pretty good idea: They are going to be like, 'We're hot and we're hip and we're bloggin',' " said Markos Moulitsas, the founder of the Daily Kos. "But by 2008, the blogs are going to be so institutionalized, it's not going to be funny."

Bloggers, for all the benefits they might bring to both parties, have proved to be a complicating political influence for Democrats. They have tugged the party consistently to the left, particularly on issues like the war, and have been openly critical of such moderate Democrats as Senator Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut.

Markos (DailyKos) Moulitsas will purify the Democratic Party with the acid of pure righteousness. Any and all fake Democrats who don't hold positions of pure progressivity will be expurgated, excoriated, and excommunicated from the new and improved idiotlogically pure Democratic Party.

(I'm talking to you Droopy Joe, and you Smilin' Hil, you both disgust me with your support of the Iraq War, among many other things, too numerous to mention)

And that faux-Moderate Prof. Althouse once again doesn't get it (she points to my Droopy Joe link as a bad example of Kossack purity!! That woman is clueless).

The people want PURITY. The people don't mass around current Democrats not because they perceive them as being of the left, but because they aren't progressive enough.

I'm hoping (and Kos in his wisdom is trying to ensure) that the next crop of Democratic candidates for major offices will make Eugene V. Debs look like a Reagan Republican.