It amuses me to no end that some folks want

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56. 'Pet issue'?? Where have I heard that before? I remember, it was several years ago

on DK BEFORE Kos' apparent recent transformation from despising 'liberals' to now despising 'the third way'. He regularly attacked liberals and their constant insistence that Democrats fight for the rights of women, gays and other issues that affect the voters who will be asked to elect them. Several 'third way' candidates were obviously not overly concerned about those 'wedge issues' as they called them, emphasizing that liberals needed to stfu because we have to WIN!

But it's hard to get Liberals to stfu about important issues. So kos told them all, especially the women, to get lost, because 'your pet issues are not going to interfere with Dems winning. He went further, he attacked Liberal women as 'the women's studies set' who were costing Dems elections.

Yes, ponies, pet issues, purity trolls etc all aimed at liberal dems. Women left his site in droves and formed their own sites.

But something has happened to kos since then. These days he's talking like all those who attacked, banned, or who left his site. He's attacking the very people he once worked for, the Third Way. It's possible he learned that the Liberals were right after all and now that he has a family to worry about, perhaps he appreciates what real Dems do for that average person.

Personally I would not trust anyone who ever supported Third Way policies and who called Democrats trying to push Democratic policies 'women's studies set' and called their very important issues 'Pet Issues'.

That left an indelible mark on a whole lot of women and gays and other minorities at the time. I'm thinking he lost so many Democrats he has to lose the arrogance and is now looking for donations from the very people he told 'I don't need your money'. He certainly was WRONG to call important issues 'Pet Issues'. I left there totally disgusted at what was calling itself a Democratic Site, as did thousands of others.

I hope he has learned that the Left was right after all. But I'm leaning more towards him having lost so many people his business may be affected.

Btw, what issues are 'pet issues' in your opinion?