Tom Vilsack is speaking at YearlyKos in Vegas this weekend (via Salon, free to read except you have to sit through a Deadwood ad):
At every session, every panel, and every hallway conversation, the underlying motivator had less to do with ideology than victory. These political neophytes and outsiders have passion and a high-tech soapbox to use it. They have come to Vegas to try to prove that they matter. Over the coming days, four possible presidential contenders will come to the decaying Riviera Hotel to woo the online multitudes -- Gen. Wesley Clark, former Virginia Gov. Mark Warner, Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson. (Sen. Russ Feingold is attending a Democratic conference in Wisconsin.) "I think there is the case that somebody missed it by not being here," said Joe Trippi, the former campaign manager to Howard Dean, referring to the missing White House aspirants like Sens. Hillary Clinton and Evan Bayh. "Will people look back on this and say they skipped Iowa or they just skipped the winter DNC meeting?"
To date, of course, liberal bloggers do not have much to show for themselves in terms of victory, with the exception of Howard Dean's election as Democratic chairman. Candidates endorsed by the so-called netroots regularly fail to best other Democrats in primaries or Republicans in the general election. (In 2004, Moulitsas handpicked 13 candidates, including several long shots, without a single victory.)
Kos is 1-19 now, right? What a loser. It's amazing that such a loser can attract so many D-list political names (Wesley Clark, Mark Warner, Bill Richardson, and Vilsack).
As I said before, blogs don't matter.
I also said that the Democratic strategy is simply one thing: "Winning Isn't Everything, It's The Only Thing."
Meanwhile South Dakota loser Tom Daschle is willing to bring his asterisk-polling presidential dreams to Vilsack's turf, if needed. Daschle is already touring Des Moines brew pubs with Kent Dorfman, according to Radio Iowa.
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