KP to the nutroots: "Take a deep breath and grow up"

The media must abandon the fantasy that the netroots are responsible for the Obama win. In reality, they were cool to him early in the Democratic contest – because of all his talk of bipartisanship and civility. They traffic in political conflict the way al Qaeda traffics in anti-Americanism. Obama’s civility is bad for business.

Obama became their default choice, dictated by Hillary-hatred, only as the field narrowed. (Remember their support for Mark Warner and John Edwards?) Even after Obama garnered the nomination, they frequently found fault with his accommodating mien.