Fascinating back and forth over at Kos. Kos calls Zack Exley, who was in charge of Kerry’s Net campaign, “an idiot.” Zack is anything but an idiot. He’s a good guy personally who has spent most of his life working fulltime for his political beliefs. I respect him, and am grateful for what he did using the Net to do traditional things, like raise money. I am certainly more of a believer than he is in the power of p2p politics, but of course campaigns also have to get the offline basics rights; just ask Howard Dean the day after Iowa.

Zack posts a spirited defense in which he vows allegiance to the Internet vision, so long as it’s not seen as a replacement for the traditional tasks. Who could argue? And does anyone disagree that the Kerry campaign would have done better if it had also let loose the dogs of the Web?

Here’s a response by kmthurman with a long discussion thread.

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