“Tuesday afternoon, I saw Markos ‘Daily Kos’ Moulitsas, author of the ‘Left-Libertarian Manifesto’ from 2006, share a stage with ‘market Democrat’ Bill Richardson and avowed libertarian Tucker Carlson to talk about race and gender politics. After Carlson suggested, plausibly, that Obama would win in a landslide if he declaimed race-based affirmative action and replaced it with preferences based on class, Moulitsas rolled his eyes and told the Kostastic audience to never listen to the advice of ‘a Republican.’ Carlson spent the rest of the hour fending off accusations of misogyny and suggestions that he be kicked off the panel. What makes up the alleged libertarianness of the allegedly libertarian Democrats? As yesterday’s events suggested, it’s about attitude, not ideas. Moulitsas stared down moderator Dan Abrams of MSNBC, attacked his network for doing John McCain’s work for him, and repeatedly made the case for liberals to go on offense. It was the same with Schweitzer: What made him a model for other Democrats was not his heterodoxy on liberal issues, but his belly-first, bar-room swagger.” (08/27/08)