Legal Commentary

Reality Based

By Big Tent Democrat

Kevin Drum writes about James Joyner's post on there being enough lunatics to go around:

James Joyner admits that there are lots of conservative lunatics running around these days:

But here’s the thing: There’s plenty of crazy to go around. Remember Bush Derangement Syndrome? The 9/11 conspiracy theorists who thought Bush and Cheney were in on the whole thing? The Diebold plot to steal the 2004 election? . . .

Now, obviously there's some truth to this, but . . . The Diebold folks couldn't even get a hearing at Daily Kos, let alone anywhere more mainstream. The 9/11 truthers have always been a tiny band.

(Emphasis supplied.) Kevin has this right. Indeed, it went beyond Truthers and Diebolders, who were not allowed to post at Daily Kos when I was there (I'll leave the primary wars for another time.) It was so for all lunatic conspiracy theories. More . .

Daily Kos' (and my) insistence on maintaining a reality based position was rewarded with much invective from these characters. Indeed, I was originally outed (my identity was revealed) by a Left Wing crazy in retribution for denouncing at Daily Kos a ridiculous conspiracy theory that Alberto Gonzales had quashed an indictment of Karl Rove.

The conservative world took and takes a much different approach to the right wing crazies for the most part. And Democrats are making political hay with it. Easy enough for Republicans and conservatives to stop if they want to stop it - don't tolerate the crazies.

Speaking for me only

Full post as published by TalkLeft on August 05, 2009 (boomark / email).