Reply #61: I have a healthy concern for Party Unity but...

[Tom Rinaldo]

I don't think Dean or anyone else has the power to impose it. Lots of people worked for one or another Democrat at one time or another, that doesn't make them permanent agents for that Democrat. I can understand taking issue with Kos's comments, but that is where the conflict lies, with Kos. We have way too many intra Democratic conspiracy theories to sort through as it is. Dean, like everyone else, is innocent until proved guilty of being behind it. Further, no Democratic leader, or past or future candidate, has a whole lot of power over what some people who might support them might say on a blog unless that person is actually on their pay roll. The Kos comment was subjective by nature, on the money or off the mark however you might view it. Unless specific objective lies about Kerry are being said it is unrealistic to expect a call for those comments to be censored or retracted. That doesn't mean that you can't argue like Hell against them.