When Did the Netroots Become the Nutroots?

Here is an explanation of what went wrong.

Actually, there were signs LONG before "Obama" came on the scene; the nutroots started almost from the beginning when they called themselves the "netroots." They started going off the deep end in 2004 when they promoted what to me were totally ridiculous candidates for president, namely the Mouth and Wesley Clark. They started getting notions in their head they were big players on the scene and that they would create their own brand of machine politics. You saw people like Kos trash traditional Democratic principles such as public financing of campaigns when they endorsed the Mouth and Clark going off public financing. This was stupid in light of the fact they were going up against somebody who had an unlimited amount of cash to draw upon (John Kerry). Their losses didn't stop them, though, in their wrongheaded quest to be major players in the Democratic Party. The party has been further damaged because of their stupid antics.

The Mouth, Wesley Clark, Paul Hackett, Ned Lamont, and now "Barack Obama" are just a few of their successes on the machine front. A lot of this support stemmed from the nutroots trying to relive the 1960s' antiwar movement. What all of these people had in common, at least to the nutroots' eyes, was they appeared to be antiwar. Nothing else mattered. With "Obama" especially it took a contortion act to try and paint this right-wing "Democrat" with University of Chicago connections into a "progressive." Since these rebels without a cause ranted and raved against the DLC, not knowing what the DLC actually was, they went against Hillary Clinton, wife of Mr. DLC himself. They went after her recycling old right-wing lies, recycling lies about the IWR vote, which was NOT a license for our dictator to go to war, and so forth. It was truly bizarre to watch, for Hillary Clinton was to the left of Obama.

But there's been manipulation along the way, by the media, by the GOP, by the Obama campaign, with a lot of these nutroots being on the take. Now that "Obama" has all but been officially declared the nominee of his party and revealed his real positions, positions that were out there all along if people had just done the research, they are crying foul.

"Obama" is not a "centrist" Democrat; he's not even a Democrat at all.