Sage Suggestion for the Right: Putting "Socialism on Trial"
In observing the debate between Dan Riehl and Jon Henke over the immediate future of the GOP, my belief is that both of them may end up being correct."[The GOP] lose[s]. In fact, for the next four...
View ArticleBuilding Support for Obama's Agenda
I wrote this piece today in the Weekly Standard Online exploring the value of outside efforts aimed at promoting President Obama's legislative agenda. The raw political value of these activities is...
View ArticleTea Party '09: The Rise of the Right's New Distributed Online Activism
By the standards of the Obama campaign and MoveOn.org, the Tea Parties happening all across the country are not very organized. Contra Talking Points Memo, no single group "owns" or is instigating...
View ArticleSocialism, Scrota and Tea Party Ridicule
Mainstream media personalities have begun making a sport out of ridiculing “tea parties.” If you’re living on Mars, tea parties are spontaneously formed groups of activists disgusted with just about...
View ArticleRubio vs. Crist Will Prove Who Controls the GOP
For much of the build up to the 2008 Democratic primaries, the consensus among political oddsmakers, pollsters, and politicos (myself included) was that Hillary Clinton was virtually a shoo-in to win...
View ArticleLocal Obama Organizers Struggle to Keep the Movement Alive
During the election, the groups functionality on My.BarackObama.com was a remarkably efficient way to communicate to Democratic activists on the local level. Republicans wanting to volunteer for...
View ArticleRapid Right Innovation: Top 20
They’re getting comfortable. As Henke alludes to here, the self-satisfaction that comes with being in control was a primary factor in the waning of GOP power after 2002. The Dems know political power...
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Rising Rightroots and Declining Netroots Now at Parity (or Better)
Flickr photo by Mike BryantLost in the hubbub about the tea parties, the health care town hall protests, Joe Wilson, and the ACORN sting is the outcome of a long-simmering meta debate about the...
View ArticleBenko's Attack: Setting the Record Straight
This morning I awoke to a "public flogging of Patrick Ruffini" from Ralph Benko, an enthusiastic proponent of new media in the conservative movement in D.C. He was responding to my recent piece on the...
View ArticleRepublicans: Beware the Independents and RINO Hunters
There's blood in the water. Republicans are licking their chops. But these very lucky partisans had better think very clearly and carefully in the coming months. Things have changed. The dynamic is...
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