I also think there are some very sophisticated provocateurs among the commenters who've seeded their communities with memes that keep resentments boiling and emotions high. They're constantly reinforcing the skew put on the "facts" in order to splinter the liberal blogosphere as much as possible and as permanently as possible.

It'd be willfully blind to ingore the necessity of having team players out there seeding the blogs with memes and talking points, but let's remember the effect Clinton herself is having by seeding these points from on high.  Well-meaning followers take up imo a far greater percentage of those disseminating these memes across the blogs because they are, as you say, holed up in their insular communities and brainwashing themselves--and accusing us of the same thing.  

But it's the resentments and nasty emotions that you mention that alarm me more than anything.  I can dig Al Giordano's take on it as being a Chicken Little Obama supporter but I think we're really looking at the possibility of permanent damage now.  What's passed up to this point I think will fade away, ie, the experience meme, the elitist image, even the Rev Wright will be impervious to resurrection attempts in the GE.  

But what Clinton is doing in FL and MI right now goes well beyond any of these prior attacks, goes beyond poisoning the well even.  If she gets people there (and her supporters elsewhere) hooked on the idea that Obama and the DNC are trying to disenfranchise voters, steal their votes ala Florida 2000; if that idea takes hold, I don't see any way we roll back the damage that will cause among democratic voters in November--there just isn't the time to get the job done.  

That is what bothers me the most about Clinton's campaign at this point.  She is NOT going to be the nominee, and I can't see any incentive for her to be VP either unless she figures she and Bill and steamroll Obama when they take office and continually undermine and shift his policies--and they'd no doubt try to, which is the main reason why Obama would be nuts to put her on the ticket.  And they know he's too smart for that, hell if I can see it then I'm sure everyone in both campaigns can too--so what does that leave?  

I'm back to Plan 2012 as the most likely explanation.  This is scorched-earth taken to levels we couldn't dream of a month ago.  Well, it never occurred to me, anyway.

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