Over at the DailyKos, where I've been know to drop in and hoist a pint or two in comments, the normally insightful leader of the pack is letting his desperation show. Markos Moulitsas has posted two remarkable articles in the last two days - one that took a snarky look at the negatives of the top-tier Democrats, and a second that tries to slow down the Inevitability Train as it leaves the station.
Predictably, some of the Kossacks reacted to his posts like dying do miracle cures. But to me, the early desperation in Kos's tone is just further proof that the race on the left side is settling in to a steady diet of Hillary and the rest.
And I've noticed from carefull RSS parsing that left-leaning women are moving in the Clinton direction. One clear sign is the friendliness on sites like FireDogLake toward Senator Clinton in the last few months. And another is the growth of comments like these on Kos and other lefty hangouts:
I am so fired up by the fact that Hillary is in the lead right now.
It is not that I am a one-issue voter, but gosh and golly, it does give me an incredible amount of hope in the future (a future which I have to admit I have given thought of abandoning due to it's apparent bleakness) that a WOMAN is actually IN THE LEAD for President of the USA. For now. Please, don't tell me she's inevitably going to lose it.
I mean, WOW. Even though I'm seeing more and more heavily veiled women in my home town grocery stores, and progress in the career tracks has virtually stopped for me and most of my 50-plus year old girl friends, and the cost of quality child care is 1200 a month or more per month, and there's still no paid leave for new mothers or even reasonable health care for same -- and the 'mommy track' career gals were looking forward to allow any work/life balance never has panned out as being anything more than an excuse to pay mother's less than their male counterparts -- and I'm not even talking about the assault on reproductive rights here or trying to get along with bosses that don't feel women should be paid as much as a man that's got his Raider Tickets to buy -- or having to watch that Governator embarrass and demean his dumb Kennedy related wife
IT's PROGRESS. Gee, just about 20 years ago Geraldine F. actually was allowed to run for VICE-president (even though nobody really thought the Demo's had a snowball's chance in hell of winning that election.)
Yep, I think it's great that they let her be in front of the parade, at least for a while. Keeps the rest of us gals from getting uppity. And, who knows -- maybe after all, in another 20 years, we might even have someone who gets to the BIG campaign. And then, 20 years after that, maybe a gal will get to actually BE president. Of course, Amerika will be a small colony of some asian power by then, but gee, a WOMAN!
Okay, yeah, tell me I'm bitter. And nobody on Kos is anti-women. But really, after over 200 years in a supposedly free country, is half the population STILL excluded from decision making on the highest levels? How come women are held to a higher standard than men? How come if she wheels and deals with the big boys, as men have always done, she get's pushed out for being too political? Isn't that politicians are SUPPOSED to be?
I sense a movement in my unscientific analysis of blog opinion in lefty-land. And that movement only solidifies the polls in the direction of the Democratic front-runner.
