Posted on 08/05/2007 4:54:00 AM PDT by Tree of Liberty
Doh!
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Odd, I’ve always respected Hewitt. Yet, he attacks FR after the O’Rielly debacle. He is a strategist extrodinaire, that’s for sure. I think FR is a beautiful thing. It allows intelligent people from all walks of life and talents to interact and share viewpoints and information. Most importantly, it allows the free expression of ideas, something sorely lacking in today’s society. If it’s posted on FR, it may not be pretty but it may be the truth.
It seems to me that the DBM does't have a clue what a blog is...
They have refered to this forum as a blog for 15 years and they still call the Drudge report a blog when it's fairly apparent that it is no more than a collection of the days headlines...I mean has Drudge had any thing to say about anything since the "blue dress" debut???
As to the notion that there are more conservative sites on the web, I think plays to the same reason there are more conservative radio stations... Conservatives pay attention more... ergo, more conservative sites
We’ll see about Thompson but agree with the rest.
Conservatives were betrayed by the entire republican establishment save a few.
This is a conservative website.
We’re not going to act like those betrayals never happened and get down the field to lead rah rah cheers for the Republicans to be given power again. They have to earn that passion and they’ve done a lousy job of it.
Patrick apparently wants us to be like Kos, in that they pushed aside all the values they profess to own in order to elect more Democrats for the sake of numbers. Yeah, we tried that in 2000, 2002, and 2004. We got screwed. just like the Kos members are finding out now, they won little while the pols got most of the benefits.
The amnesty fight highlighted the real problem. the People vs the Government. Patrick wants to utilize us to serve the lords in D.C. and we’re not stepping in proper tune.
He also fails to mention Rudy’s is his guy, so he’s obviously taking the purge of some of Rudy’s surrogates personally given this is a highly trafficked site.
BTW, Patrick, remember Rather? Amnesty? Miers? The Swiftees? Yeah, so do we. We’re still delivering potent kicks. Not sure the same can be said of the HughHewitt/Townhall site infested with a bitter Rudy-ite blogger and nauseating Romney cheerleader still smarting from his Miers smackdown.
Rudy Giuliani is a Conservative? If Rudy is the new definition of conservative then true conservatism is dead.
Get out for a count of noses? Get out for a some emotional jump and shout event? Or even just get out to be with like minded folk? -- That's for the young or healthy, those unencumbered by other responsibility.
We've got to find a better way to do it for the fully employed, those with kids etc. Kos will always get a lot more loosely employed singles and union members to show up than we will find among the gainfully employed and small business owners.
In the frame of mind of Kathy Bates comment 'I've got better insurance', the FR folks need to play to their strengths, not the other guy's. So, I donate to groups like Club for Growth. The young liberals I know don't donate to much beyond Starbucks.
I haven’t seen any full page ads in the Washington Times recently.
FReepers tend to be so one issue oriented if it’s not their narrow agenda they won’t get involved.
All this fmily and jobs bit is mostly rationalization.
The grass roots have been burned out.
Nope, the family and job and health aren’t fake for me. They’ve kept me tied down for some time now, especially the health thing lately.
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