Merely an aggregation of a dispersed life online
Well, a lot has happened since the last time I posted here. I joined John McCain’s campaign. I left John McCain’s campaign. I joined my friend Jon Henke at New Media Strategies, a great New Media PR firm. Jon and I will be joining Patrick Ruffini on a new project, The Next Right. I think [...]
Twitter is an amusing tool. A lot of things become more public. Like this from Chris Johnston: I was contacted today about being a delegate for Mitt Romney in the Louisiana Caucus
So, there was a three-ish day media frenzy on this. The video on YouTube has been watched almost 1m times. It was rebroadcast hundreds of times. Whoopi Goldberg defended John McCain on The View to a bunch of liberal women. CNN rebroadcast the exchange repeatedly, as they tried to smear him. Including John McCain saying [...]
The Ron Paul money bomb is amazing. On a certain level though, it makes a lot of sense. I’m about to make a totally obvious point: Ron Paul’s support is a protest vote. There are a lot of Republicans right now who are really angry. Republicans are furious with their party. In 2004, Dems were [...]
Jon Henke, currently with the Fred Thompson campaign and previously with Senator Mitch McConnell and former Senator George Allen, weighed in on the discussion about the role of righty-blogs. He said: I think these compositional sociological explanations for the differences between Left and Right in the blogosphere and activist communities are over-complicated and unnecessary. The [...]
This post has two real online stimuli and a bunch of offline ones, although it is not clearly apropos of any: Patrick Ruffini on "information gaps." And Matt Stoller’s response to a separate piece by Patrick about using Facebook as a microtargeting data tool. The broader point that I am going to try to make [...]
An important discussion is emerging on the role of social conservatives in the righty-blogosphere. Joe Carter, who organized the blogger row at FRC’s Values Voters summit, had this to say about the experience: Anyone who wonders why the audience for the right-side of the blogosphere is stagnant at an estimated 200,000 readers should look at [...]
Yesterday, Kevin Hassett, an economist at AEI and a member of John McCain’s economics team, pointed out something that we forget. Hillary Clinton is a big ole porker: Democrats have been so busy preparing the coronation of Hillary Clinton that they have failed to train a critical eye on her record. When it comes to [...]
One of the things that Republicans have done better than Democrats is staff organizations on the Hill. One of my favorite from being on the Hill is the Republican Communicators Association. Every blogger in Washington should come. And, furthermore, the bloggers can share ideas with staffers, and, perhaps we can become more effective. Here’s the [...]
I harp on the need to build a network of blogs in the states. One just popped up in Maine. Allen vs. Collins. Hopefully they will also cover state legislative races and the open-seat that Tom Allen left. Susan Collins should be able to put this state away. Her opponent, Tom Allen, is currently down [...]
