Earlier today, a controversial endorsement by a prominent Virginia Democratic blogger has served as the spark for the more or less inevitable blog war in Virginia's Leftysphere. While regrettable because of the damage it will no doubt cause to friendships and political relationships that have been years in the making, this year's blog war was inevitable, and probably even healthy, from a certain point of view.
As with so many shooting wars, the incident that has sparked the conflict is far less important than the underlying tensions that caused it: in this case, the underlying reason for the current battle is the statistical three-way tie in the Democratic primary race for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. So if you will bear with me for a moment, I will delay talking about that spark until I come to its place in my story.