On 1/22/07, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> Ravi, you start with a bogus opposition between purists and netroots,
> the former largely adherents of the Church of Marx. Max would not
> score high on any tests of Marxist purity; he's always struck me as a
> serious yet pragmatic guy who works in DC, fer Chrissake. And
> netroots - what are they (and you name Kos and MyDD, both of which
> prominently feature love letters to Nancy Pelosi) but a new
> constituency for fairly conventional Dem politics, with little in the
> way of politics or analysis (unless you consider this from MyDD an
> analysis: "I find the horserace among Clinton, Edwards and Obama so
> scrambled right now that I couldn't possibly rank their relative
> chances to win the nomination with any comfort at all")? I can
> already hear the vacuum cleaners revving up.