Seriously, I've never heard of the guy, has any Freeper?
Nope. I do a lot of reading, and check out a lot of blogs, but I'd never heard of this guy. If he is a Conservative, he's one with absolutely no pedigree or name recognition as a writer. Just the kind of guy you'd expect the WaPo to hire.
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He was the co-founder of redstate.com, a blog known to a number of people.
Just some regular over at RedState, who posted apparently pseudonyminously.
We have a local "blogger celebrity" who is likely to fall in a similar fashion. these young guys get to writing in the relative anonymity of psedonym blogging, and think they are ready for prime time.