Think Progress captures the moment:

Today on Fox News Sunday, Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol attacked the Democratic presidential candidates for their decision to attend the YearlyKos blogger convention. He held it up as evidence that the presidential candidates have "gone left." "Every Democratic presidential nominee is going to the DailyKos convention," said Kristol. "That’s the left-wing blogger who was not respectable three or four years ago. The Howard Dean kind of sponsor. Now the whole party is going to pay court to him and to left wing blogs."

Sorry, chump. But given the radical and now objectively untrue political views that were "respectable" 3-4 years ago, I don't know if there's a higher compliment.

Some day soon -- and that day may even be right now -- being outside of what the Beltway Dingbats considered "respectability" during the greatest failure of political and journalistic conscience in American history will be a badge of honor and courage as coveted as the ability to claim membership in the French Resistance after World War II. You won't be able to survive politically without it.