"Crashing the Gate" seems to be getting some fairly good play out there. All I can say is Right on Markos. One part of this review, really caught my eye:

Indeed, Crashing the Gate is all about winning. That's what animates the on-line activists—that's why the number of hits on the Web sites rises as elections approach. The issues aren't secondary, exactly, but there's a clear consensus that worrying about the fine points of policy is an empty exercise without real power, and that power comes from party unity.

It's threats to that party unity that really anger the Web activists. Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman, for instance, faces a primary challenge that was first given real prominence on Daily Kos and allied Web sites. Not because he isn't liberal on issues such as Social Security; but because he doesn't behave like a Democrat, he seems happy to go on the Sunday talk shows and praise the President for starting the Iraq war or criticize Democrats for being weak on national security. In a photo widely circulated on the Web, he was the first on his feet applauding the President's Iraq policy during this year's State of the Union address. Lieberman may well survive the primary challenge he faces from Ned Lamont, a high-tech entrepreneur and former newspaper editor who opposes the Iraq war, but it seems possible that if he is strongly challenged, this will affect his positions in the years to come.

Funny... I have less respect for Lieberman than I do for Bush. At least Bush knows who the hell he is... well on most days anyway, at least those days that he gets to see Karl early in the day. I want to see Lieberman have his ASS handed to him in the election. Personally I think the whinny bastard is one of the reasons that Gore lost.

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Posted by: Aldon Hynes at April 8, 2006 09:47 AM