Looks like they’ve decided that if you can’t lick ’em, join ’em.

Oh, and if anyone takes this crap seriously, it’s going to be a straight replay of Nader 2000.

WaPo:

A group of old Washington hands has launched a campaign to remake Internet politics…

And Internet politics needs to be remade why, exactly?

…. taking a forum that until now has been associated with ideologues and angry partisans…

The ideologues are on the right wing. All Kos wants to do is win.

And why these clowns are repeating the Republican angry meme, I don’t know. (And if these guys aren’t angry, I don’t know where they’ve been living since Bush stole the election in 2000. And then… And then… And then…)

.. and using it to start a movement culminating in a bipartisan presidential ticket in 2008.

Splendid. Nader 2000 all over again. I guess these guys would rather lose, and keep their contracts, than win.

The group is called Unity08, and no one would accuse its founders of thinking small. They include Democrats Hamilton Jordan and Gerald Rafshoon, who gained political fame for their role in electing Jimmy Carter 30 years ago, as well as Doug Bailey, a media adviser to former president and representative Gerald R. Ford (R-Mich.). They are being joined by former Maine governor Angus King, an independent.

Their goal is to offer an alternative to the two major party choices — a unity ticket that will emerge after secure, online balloting that they hope will include millions of Americans. In an announcement statement, Unity08 said its efforts are a reaction to a system that has “polarized and alienated the American people” through partisanship and interest-group politics.

Who’s paying the bills, I wonder?