{"id":11201,"date":"2010-03-02T03:27:08","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T03:27:08","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-03-02T03:32:43","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T03:32:43","slug":"mickey-kauss-desperate-plea-for-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/03\/02\/mickey-kauss-desperate-plea-for-attention\/","title":{"rendered":"Mickey Kaus’s Desperate Plea For Attention"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mickey Kaus, one of the first political bloggers and noted blower of goats<\/a>, is apparently desperate for attention. Back in the day, he made a name for himself as a so-called “liberal” who supported George W. Bush, who was an early adopter of the swiftboating of John Kerry<\/a>, fed talking points to wingnuts<\/a> about ACORN supposedly “stealing” the MN-Sen election for Al Franken, and is probably the best known example of a “concern troll” in the entire country, apparently isn’t getting enough attention these days.<\/p>\n

There’s no other way to explain his decision to take out papers<\/a> to run against Barbara Boxer in the Democratic US Senate primary:<\/p>\n

Pioneering political blogger Mickey Kaus took out papers filed<\/del> to run for U.S. Senate in California, he told LA Weekly. The Venice resident said he’ll run this year against Barbara Boxer for her seat. He said he took out filed<\/del> papers at with<\/del> the Los Angeles County Registrar of Voters, although a spokeswoman there could not yet confirm the filing<\/del>.<\/p>\n

The Democrat has been centrist and even conservative on some of the issues on which Boxer has taken a more left-leaning stand, including immigration: He does not favor amnesty and favors a more restrictive national policy.<\/p>\n

The journalist’s Wiki entry says he’s also “skeptical of affirmative action, labor unions (particularly automotive workers’ unions and teachers’ unions), and gerrymandering of congressional districts.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In short, Mickey Kaus seems to think that Californians don’t really want Barbara Boxer and her liberalism, despite having elected her three times to the Senate – he thinks we want Ben Nelson or Joe Lieberman. He’s gone from being a right-wing “Democrat” to being truly unhinged.<\/p>\n

David Atkins offered this insightful take on Kaus’s politics to Calitics:<\/p>\n

Race resentment fuels nearly every dispute Kaus has with mainstream Dems. He’s upset about welfare, immigration, and affirmative action. He loved the Clinton welfare-reform sistah-souljah version of the Party, and is really upset at the progressive resurgence. He’s DLC through and through.<\/p>\n

Doesn’t surprise me that he would want to take out Boxer. What’s surprising is that he thinks he has the remotest shot. If I had to guess, he probably just wants to take potshots at boxer to set up a Campbell win, as Campbell espouses that corporatist bipartisanship of which Mickey’s such a big fan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Gotta agree here. Kaus is doing this for attention and to further undermine the progressive movement he so despises. I doubt this campaign of his will get very much traction, especially since most California Democrats are very happy with Boxer and plan to fight for her this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mickey Kaus, one of the first political bloggers and noted blower of goats<\/a>, is apparently desperate for attention. Back in the day, he made a name for himself as a so-called “liberal” who supported George W. Bush, who was an early adopter of the swiftboating of John Kerry<\/a>, fed talking points to wingnuts<\/a> about ACORN supposedly “stealing” the MN-Sen election for Al Franken, and is probably the best known example of a “concern troll” in the entire country, apparently isn’t getting enough attention these days.<\/p>\n

There’s no other way to explain his decision to take out papers<\/a> to run against Barbara Boxer in the Democratic US Senate primary:<\/p>\n

Pioneering political blogger Mickey Kaus took out papers filed<\/del> to run for U.S. Senate in California, he told LA Weekly. The Venice resident said he’ll run this year against Barbara Boxer for her seat. He said he took out filed<\/del> papers at with<\/del> the Los Angeles County Registrar of Voters, although a spokeswoman there could not yet confirm the filing<\/del>.<\/p>\n

The Democrat has been centrist and even conservative on some of the issues on which Boxer has taken a more left-leaning stand, including immigration: He does not favor amnesty and favors a more restrictive national policy.<\/p>\n

The journalist’s Wiki entry says he’s also “skeptical of affirmative action, labor unions (particularly automotive workers’ unions and teachers’ unions), and gerrymandering of congressional districts.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In short, Mickey Kaus seems to think that Californians don’t really want Barbara Boxer and her liberalism, despite having elected her three times to the Senate – he thinks we want Ben Nelson or Joe Lieberman. He’s gone from being a right-wing “Democrat” to being truly unhinged.<\/p>\n

David Atkins offered this insightful take on Kaus’s politics to Calitics:<\/p>\n

Race resentment fuels nearly every dispute Kaus has with mainstream Dems. He’s upset about welfare, immigration, and affirmative action. He loved the Clinton welfare-reform sistah-souljah version of the Party, and is really upset at the progressive resurgence. He’s DLC through and through.<\/p>\n

Doesn’t surprise me that he would want to take out Boxer. What’s surprising is that he thinks he has the remotest shot. If I had to guess, he probably just wants to take potshots at boxer to set up a Campbell win, as Campbell espouses that corporatist bipartisanship of which Mickey’s such a big fan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Gotta agree here. Kaus is doing this for attention and to further undermine the progressive movement he so despises. I doubt this campaign of his will get very much traction, especially since most California Democrats are very happy with Boxer and plan to fight for her this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1990],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1990"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2UF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}