DEMOCRATIC HOPEFULS snub party moderates: “Not a single one of the eight presidential candidates plans to attend the Democratic Leadership Council’s summer meeting, a snub that says less about the centrist DLC than it does about a nomination process that rewards candidates who pander to their parties’ hardened cores while ignoring everybody else. . . . That raises a challenge for Republican and Democratic presidential candidates: How do they win their parties’ nomination without appearing hostage to the kind of base politics that turns off swing voters?”

Well, when has the DLC ever produced a successful Democratic Presidency? Heh. But this certainly puts Kos ahead in his declared war on the DLC.