Posted on 11/01/2009 7:31:17 AM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
Conservatives4Palin quickly became a highly influential website last year and afterwards. It is the place conservatives who support Governor Sarah Palin in one way or another go to. It is also the place where her fans fight smears launched at her by her enemies, both Republicans and Democrats.
Hot Air is one of the biggest and influential blogs in the world – and its run by conservatives. Created by Michelle Malkin, it has two prominent conservatives writing for it, Ed Morrissey and an anonymous blogger who goes by the alias of AllahPundit.
Last time I checked, Hot Air has approximately 1 million hits every day, thereby making it the biggest conservative member of the blogosphere.
Although the two websites share a lot of views and principles – both are conservative, Republican, principled and influential – they are also, sadly, engaged in some kind of feud. Conservatives4Palin has complained for months now that Hot Air’s AllahPundit does not treat Palin fairly, that he uses every anti-Palin headline to continue his smearcampaign against the former Alaska governor and that he, by doing so, discredits himself and the website he writes for.
Hot Air obviously disagrees. AP continues to criticize the governor, mostly, it seems, because he truly believes she doesn’t stand a chance of winning presidential elections and because he appears to believe she just is not fit for the job. In other words, C4P believes Palin is a great Republican, AllahPundit believes she hurts the conservative movement and the Republican brand – or so I gather.
In any case, one hopes the two sides will stop having it in for each other (and each other’s preferred candidates) soon. Even if Palin does not become her party’s presidential nominee three years from now, she is and will for a long time remain a highly influential conservative leader, while C4P and Hot Air will undoubtedly continue to be among the biggest and most influential conservative blogs in the world.
Live and let live, can’t we all get along, give peace a chance, imagine… you know the drill.
AllahPundit - AP, think about it. Satire.
Maybe Hot Air has gotten to big for its britches and decided they are going to pick our candidates for us.
The RNC is bigger than they are, and you saw this week how well that worked out for THEM!
AP annoys me
But he also makes me think.
Wrong on Palin, though...
Just stop reading Hot Air and absolutely do not even acknowledge any article by AP. There are plenty of other places to get news.
I think the infighting isn’t very smart but candidly, Palin’s cast of supporters largely don’t care to hear any criticism of their candidate and many have been rather aggressive in attacking people who don’t have her first on their lists.
Anytime you read a screed by AllahPundit dissing Palin, Freepers, just keep this in mind: a potential rival of Palin’s has his, ahem, “Mitts” all over AllahPundit’s thinking.
No single pundit or combination of them is going to influence me on the matter of Sarah Palin. Whenever they mention her, I merely find myself wondering if is is 2012 yet. What they actually SAY about her...well, I really couldn’t care less.
Hey—Does AllahPundit speak for Allah?
Yeah, a lot of them seem to act the same way the more rabid supporters of Ron Paul did in 2007. Not a good formula to help your candidate.
Ignore what is obviously bias on HotAir’s blog but gain information from the rest of it. We don’t have to agree with every point of view expressed on every blog. Even if a certain element does smear Palin, it’s not enough to assuage support for her. She’s strong enough to overcome anything like AP on HotAir. Sarah rocks! So do Malkin and Morrissey.
No kidding.
Palin has some real nutcases following her, some of them here on FR.
Sarah Palin can handle the heat. She’s not some hothouse flower, and she needs to be treated like any other serious candidate. That means taking criticism, answering it when appropriate, defending her stands on the issues, playing the game.
These rabid supporters need to get out of the way and let her fight her way to the top. They are doing her no favors.
FWIW, I’m a Palin fan and hope she does, indeed, run for the Presidency.
Yea, right! You wouldn’t like to try and justify that claim now would you?
Ed Morrisey is alright. Don’t like AllahPundit. Never have.
He’s also been a big basher of Huckabee. Given the same line up of presidential candidates again, I’d still vote for Huck in the primary. But if Sarah runs in 2012, my vote will go to her.
I stopped reading AP a long time ago - he is a wishy washy moderate who has a touch of PDS, no doubt.
That’s pretty good!
If Sarah's _actual_ words or deeds begin to concern me, I will start looking elsewhere, the elsewhere being away from the established elite.
As long as she's walking her red-blooded U.S. Citizen talk, she's got my unequivocal support.
AP is obsessed with Sarah. She could be out raking leaves and this bozo would find an excuse to write negatively about her. My question is why does Malkin tolerate that crap.
Hot Air is moderate not conservative. And they seem to hate strong coservative women even though they work for one. I stopped going there because of how they treat Palin, Bachman and Coulter and Beck. And kiss up to Mitt and Huck.
I can’t believe that Hot Air is the most popular conservative site!
Free Republic seems to have posts put up CONSTANTLY, possibly one per minute! And people also comment here at almost a constant rate, it seems.
Hot Air, on the other hand, seems to have a few stories posted per day, and that’s it! And the number of people commenting on them also seems much lower.
I agree with you, but I don’t see her - of any of the possible Republican candidates - doing an about-face. That’s why I like her and support her. I believe she believes in her principles and will not compromise them.
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