Q: How Liberal Is Eleanor Clift?

A: So liberal that she has a column about how the Democratic Party and the Kossacks are in bed together...and she thinks that's a good thing. Some highlights of Clift's glowing portrait of the former Weekly Jackass Kos:

No fewer than three esteemed political reporters from The Washington Post were in the audience taking notes on a steamy Thursday afternoon at a forum called "Reflections of a Blogger," sponsored by the New Politics Institute, a progressive think tank...

...For Democrats desperate to find their way back to a winning coalition, Moulitsas, 33, has emerged as one of the most creative thinkers and activists in the progressive ranks.

Three reporters - to cover the Kos? Creative thinker? Come on, Kos's popularity is due to one thing...he's carved out a niche as ground zero for Bush hatred. Moonbat Central, that's all it is...

Moulitsas is opposed to the Iraq war but says that isn't what drew him to Hackett. "It's not about ideology, pro-war, antiwar, it makes no difference," he insisted. "In the online world, we need Democrats to stand up, not be afraid of Republicans, not be afraid of the right-wing noise machine...We don't care about ideology. We care that you stand up for the party and don't run scared." He pointed out that bloggers backed Democrat Stephanie Herseth in South Dakota, who, he says, ran a Republican Lite campaign. "We're pragmatic," he says. If candidates aren't 100 percent on the environment or they're kind of iffy on choice, progressives should overlook these differences for what Moulitsas terms "the greater good," which is restoring the Democrats to a governing majority.

Uh-huh...it would be hard to intentionally write a more dishonest paragraph than the one above. Pragmatic? Non-ideological? The Kos? The guy who calls Joe Lieberman a disloyal Democrat when he prefers to govern rather than toe the progressive line? The Kos who says Joe Biden is more fit to be president of MBNA than the United States (he may be right on that one)?

The simple equation is this: Progressive support=electoral defeat. It couldn't be any clearer. No Democrat will win the presidency who also has the support of the Daily Kos crowd - ever.

UPDATE 4:58 p.m. central: Many thanks to everyone's favorite elected blogger, John Behan, for the link...