Never mind the bluster: Liberals will never abandon Obama

Moulitsas responded on Schultz’s show. He said Matthews echoed “Beltway conventional wisdom” and was “trapped in this bubble.” Moulitsas’ latter remark could be called Freudian; many top political operatives have for years viewed ideological bloggers, like Moulitsas, as trapped in a bubble.

Back in 2007, Joe Biden was the only Democratic candidate to skip the YearlyKos convention of liberal bloggers. That brought the ire of Kosland.

“They say it’s their party. Like hell it’s their party! They are part of the party, like labor,” Biden told me not long after. Biden was, obviously, correct…

[I]n an essay one year ago, I noted a 1983 survey of 350 conservative leaders. It found that almost two-thirds of respondents believed that Reagan had not carried out a conservative agenda.

Like Reagan, leaders in the president’s base will express frustration. And like Reagan, that base will be there for Obama in the next presidential campaign.