Look for more of this. Today the National Republican Senatorial Committee released this statement about the left-wing blogosphere’s second-favorite Senate race:

Tester’s Buddies At “Daily Kos”: “Screw You Israel!” WASHINGTON–Today, the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) issued the following statement regarding Montana Democrat Senate candidate Jon Tester’s ongoing friendship with extreme, ultra-liberal blog “Daily Kos”: “An anti-Israel diary posted today on radical web site ‘Daily Kos’ includes the expression ‘screw you Israel’” said NRSC spokesman Brian Walton. “By continuing to accept Kos’ support, using his blog to raise money, and even linking to it from his own site, Jon Tester has assumed responsibility for comments like this. Jon Tester should remove the link to ‘Daily Kos’ from his site and repudiate Kos’ hate-filled politics.” Jon Tester’s campaign website links to ‘Daily Kos,’ a radical left-wing web site. The editor of ‘Daily Kos’ has consistently praised Tester and even contributed to his campaign. The hateful rhetoric on ‘Daily Kos’ isn’t fit for a campaign for U.S. Senate, but sadly, Jon Tester has refrained from condemning it.

The entry to with the NRSC refers, by a poster named “white is black,” reads as follows:

I have news for you and the rest of the world. Sorry, but you are not the chosen-ones as much as you want to believe your own bullsh**t. Everyone in this world are the chosen-ones. Every man, woman and child in this world are the chosen-ones. No matter race or religion!!! I am getting very close to saying “SCREW YOU, ISRAEL”!!!!!!! What goes around comes around. You are creating your own HELL on earth. You are creating more and more hatred towards yourself!! “An eye for an eye, makes the whole world blind” GANDHI

After the YearlyKos convention, I wrote that Kossack support might become an issue in several races:

One theme of coverage of the YearlyKos convention is that Moulitsas and his followers are playing an active role in the 2006 and 2008 campaigns. Left unsaid is whether they will be an asset or a liability for the candidates they support. It seems reasonable to expect that any Democratic candidate who allies himself with Moulitsas, or accepts DailyKos support, will be asked, by Republican opponents, whether he or she endorses some of the things Moulitsas has written and said.

At the time, I thought Democratic candidates might be challenged about statements from DailyKos founder Markos Moulitsas, but the NRSC press release suggests candidates might be asked about statements from anyone on the Kos website. And that’s a lot of material.