Does anyone believe that Mickey Kaus would be posting nearly as often on the John Edwards scandal if it concerned a Republican figure? Anyone at all?
I can't understand how people can declare that there is no relevance to the fact that Kaus shows such a singular obsession when it comes to criticizing liberals and Democrats, and yet has such little time for attacking Republicans and conservatives. It's really illegitimate to generate an opinion about his policy views according to his really breathtaking productivity on issues like immigration reform and the Edwards story? Kaus posts again and again (and again and again) on those liberal-criticizing issues, and very rarely on issues attacking conservatives or Republicans. That has to be at least a little important.
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Mickey is a centrist, as he demonstrated definitively before the 2000 election when he spent a couple of weeks debating with himself on his blog over whether to vote for Bush or Gore. I think he finally picked Gore.
He picks up a lot of scandalous stuff about politicians from talking to his old friends, most of whom are more intimately connected to Democrats than Republicans.
Mickey may have been considered 8 years ago a centrist but he has since left that reservation and can now be considered nothing but an annoying hack. I don't mean left or right. I think he has dis-transcended (which is not a word but I can't think of one better) partisanship to become merely a screaming annoyance to anyone on the left and a vague validation to anyone on the right.
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