The Nutroots

may be like the McGovernites of yore, but not in the way we think, or even in the way THEY think, if they think at all, which is doubtful:

For today's Democratic Party, that is both good and bad news. Fortunately, unlike the McGovernites, Lamont and most of his high-profile supporters don't articulate a broadly dovish worldview. Unfortunately, they don't articulate much of a worldview at all. Netroots activists call this a strength, saying that what binds them is not ideology but partisanship. But, without ideological content, partisan loyalty is vacuous if not amoral--the mere pursuit of power. In their netroots manifesto, Crashing the Gates, über-bloggers Markos Moulitsas and Jerome Armstrong offer reams of suggestions for how Democrats can control Washington but say virtually nothing about what it means to be a Democrat. They fetishize the conservative movement's organizational success since the 1970s without realizing that it was ideological coherence, achieved in the 1950s, which made that success possible.

These people have a third-party mentality and have utterly nothing to offer except kneejerk reaction. As for Kos, well, the only cause he believes in is Kos.