A week ago I was booted as a front-pager at Blue Commonwealth. Why? Because someone was leaking our PRIVATE, OFF-THE-RECORD group emails anonymously. Since the spineless, pathetic coward never came forward, several people were purged from the list…myself included. I was mad, but haven’t complained. If I was in Dave’s (the site’s administrator) shoes, I would have done the exact same thing.

Today, finally, the inevitable…

Well, today, I was personally attacked by a representative of the Moran Campaign. I have never editorialized on BC. I simply host the site on my server and pay the bills via our PAC (DEMPAC). I’ve even maintained my strict neutrality in the ‘09 VA Gov. Primary. Apparently, this still warrants attacking me, and my employer, for things other people post on this blog. It’s not even the personal attacks that concern me (I have thick skin) - it’s exposing my employer to unfair attacks based on things that neither I nor they have published. If the Virginia Netroots are unable to behave civilly, then I am unable to continue supporting such an effort.

So on that note, I hereby shut down the blog on Blue Commonwealth. I wish I could say it’s been fun, but it hasn’t, really. It’s been all personal attacks, back-biting, and in-fighting. I seriously hope that the Democratic Party of Virginia survives this primary. I’ll be right beside the rest of you, fighting for our nominee. I think all three of our primary candidates are spectacular, and I’ll proudly support any of them against Bob McDonnell.

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I’d also like to congratulate Ben Tribbett for destroying the best state-level blogging community in the world of politics over his long-time feud with Josh Chernilla. Truly inspiring. And kudos to the campaigns of all three Democratic candidates for Governor for agreeing to have Ben moderate an upcoming debate. I guess Zell Miller was busy that night.

It’s not fair to say I told you so, since I’ve kept quiet up until now, but shutting down Raising Kaine was a horrible, horrible idea. It took years to build it up into what it was. This infighting that occured on Blue Commonwealth would have been tolerated on RK because of it’s past reputation.

The really sad part? This primary has barely even begun…