Markos is mad. Mad I say. People are saying that the Southern states are different, and that that difference has affected the primary election.

How dare them.

Here's the thing though. If Markos wants to be angry, he should be angry at the Clintons and all their DLC buddies. They were the very organization that originally saw the southern states as a way to get different results in our Democratic primaries.

Of course, it's possible that Markos doesn't know this because when all this was going down, he was still a member of the Republican party.

But back in the late 80s, a bunch of southern DLC members, including Bill Clinton, were tired of East Coast liberals like Mondale and Dukakis winning nominations. So the DLC had a plan: Front load the Democratic primary with southern states so they could get a conservative southern Democrat elected in the primary.

And that’s how Super Tuesday was born.

The funny thing is, in the first primary to feature this new southern strategy, it completely backfired and they almost ended up with Jesse Jackson as the nominee.

But four years later, as the New York Times reported, the time was right to install their man, Bill Clinton, and this time Super Tuesday worked like a charm.

BIll Clinton: Mr DLC

MIAMI, March 10— Southern Democratic leaders achieved today what they sought in vain to do four years ago: They gave a mighty heave forward to the Presidential bid of a moderate candidate from their own region. Whether the heave will prove decisive, and Gov. Bill Clinton of Arkansas will capture the nomination in New York this summer, remains to be seen, of course. But his sweep of the Southern states on Super Tuesday 1992 established him as his party's undisputed front-runner with a big lead in convention delegates and gave him a shot at clinching things for all intents and purposes this month. (NY Times)

Markos' whining and trying to play the How-dare-you card over this issue is typically idiotic in a primary where simply acknowledging facts can be a bannable offense here.

But those are the facts. Bill Clinton's own DLC (He was chairman in 1992) rigged the primary so that a bunch of southern states, with all those things that make them special, would benefit, ultimately, Bill Clinton.

It's funny when you think about it. And it also makes this line from Markos's current diary especially funny:

Nothing has pissed me off more this primary season than the dismissal of Southern Democratic primary voters.

I agree, Kos. Maybe you should write a letter....to Bill Clinton.