Both the guys representing for Room 8 also have been known to post on TDG

I think I never clarified my previous comments about this: I think the two individuals going are good choices. Rock and Gate are people I seldom agree with but are excellent choices. But Room 8 is a lousy blog. The level of discourse is often low and dominated by people who aren't supposed to be posting doing so anonymously to spread smears (often dubiously true if at all) about rivals. And that comes from both sides of the Democratic divide in Brooklyn at least. Much of the discourse on Room 8 has no relavence to anyone who isn't on the staff of a politician. The main exception to those two patterns of insiders talking about insiders talking about insiders is Wallner, who in most ways is even worse. In my mind Rock and Gate are better than the blog they call home. Much better.

Have I offered one word of disagreement, privately or publicly, with anything you’ve said here or in other posts on this topic?

Like I've said, they sent out a call for one breed of blog, and credentialed another--I'd be a fool to complain, and yet (typical of me, says Ben Smith) I did—(see, http://www.r8ny.com/blog/gatemouth/the_cream_rises.html)

I don't necessarily think it's wrong for the DNC to have credentialed a different type of blog,(making a big deal out of people with audiences beyond your base may well be a winning strategy), but if that was their intent, they should have said so upfront, and then they would have had the fight they're having now long in advance of people buying their airline tickets in reliance upon their actions, rather than afterward.

I certainly wish you well; to me, we're all a band of brothers and sisters---and there is agreement to that proposition in these quarters, after all Liza helped Scott Sala get Urban Elephants up and running. It reminds me about the small town with only one attorney, and he was starving to death; then one day, seemingly to make matters worse, another lawyer opened shop, and soon, lo and behold, there was more than enough business for both of them. Well, it’s the same with political blogs. And Mike, though I know you say you see TDG as primarily an organizing tool, the care and art in your writing betrays otherwise.

I hope you succeed in your efforts to get seated at the Convention, but whether you do or not, you Liza, Mole, and the Two Dans will all be there in spirit with me and Rockwell (both of whom, if I recall correctly have posted here from time to time)--I mean that.