It has seemed for some time that The Daily Kos political blog seems to have a crush on Mazie Hirono and a problem with Ed Case.

Today, Kos made clear its disdain for Case:

We’ve had a long litany of Democratic villains at Daily Kos over the years—candidates so bad, we had to do everything we could in the primaries to knock them out. There has been Ed Case in Hawaii, Katrina Swett in New Hampshire, Blanche Lincoln in Arkansas, Henry Cuellar in Texas, and of course, Joe Lieberman in Connecticut.  

These are Democrats so vile that they made a mockery of our efforts to elect “more” Democrats. With friends like those, who needed Republicans? And hence, over the years, we focused increasingly on “better Democrats,” and there’s no place better to wage that battle than in open party primaries.