Jason Zengerle isn’t impressed with Markos Moulitsas Zuniga’s attitude about “winning”:

If there’s one animating idea that’s shared by liberal bloggers like Kos and Atrios and all the others, it’s, as Wallace-Wells called it, “the ideology of winnerism.”

Which is why it’s bizarre that these very same bloggers are always so eager to celebrate moral victories. After Howard Dean went down to defeat, they boasted about how they took a virtual nobody to the precipice of victory. Ditto for Paul Hackett. And the same thing is happening today now that Ciro Rodriguez–the former Texas congressman who became a blog darling after his Democratic primary opponent, incumbent Congressman Henry Cuellar, was shown hugging President Bush at the State of the Union–has apparently lost…

…But more often than not, these liberal bloggers (especially Kos) act like they already have taken over the world–writing manifestoes, issuing threats, and engaging in all sorts of chest-thumping behavior. But, like I said, their batting average is still a big fat zero.

What was it I called people who win “moral” victories? Oh, now I remember…