Reply #33: A brief recap

[Dr Ron]

It wasn't us fighting about 2004 as much as a Dean supporter coming here to pick a fight.

Kos had a post with a section of his book in which he claimed that Dean was totally clean and all opposition to Dean was based upon rhetoric and scare tactics. I responded with a post at Democratic Daily:

http://blog.thedemocraticdaily.com/?p=1569

The review is definately anti-Kos, and in order to dispute Kos I gave a run down of real reasons many opposed Dean and may have voted for Kerry. The most critical things on Dean were actually quotes from two liberal columnists.

Initially it was a calm discussion which would not be considered Dean bashing unless someone thinks that anything critical of Dean is unfair. Then a Dean supporter came in and claimed I was lying (without offering any counter evidence) and was using by blog to wage an anti-Dean campaign. (By coincidence, between the time my anti-Kos item was posted and she made this claim, I had one Dean post at Democratic Daily which was pro-Dean regarding his statement on Abramoff).

Basically she took one blog post reviewing a book and made a huge thing out of it, claiming both here and, as I found out today in GD, that I'm launching an anti-Dean campaign. We did not start out fighting about 2004, but when Kos puts out a book with revisionist history it is worth an isolated blog post to dispute.