Common Sense
By Karl-Thomas Musselman
Just a late night post for those still up.
I thought I was the only one to think about things this way. Read this article for some thinking on defining "being presidential."
And elsewhere on the web, an interesting piece that just hit Yahoo's frontpage (a CNN story)...Some very interesting positive stuff...and then...
Some analysts have their doubts about blogs, however.
Larry Purpuro, coordinator of the Republicans' e.GOP Project in 2000, said many bloggers were little more than "armchair analysts in their bathrobes (with) no serious interest in leaving their living rooms to actually help the campaigns."
Well, I don't think that is that case here at the Burnt Orange Report, nor over at Daily Kos and the like. Many of us have just gotten back from Iowa or New Hampshire. Many have been working over the break for local candidates. Some are crazy enough to go galavanting off to Arizona next weekend for another round of Presidential Campaigning (me). That's the great thing about political blogs, they tend to be written by those with experience first hand of what's going on. Or at least they have a sharp sense for what's going on.
The blogs were all aflutter Thursday with a "dance version" parody of the performance. In the audio remix, Dean's rattling off of the names of upcoming primary states is set to a pulsating techno beat punctuated by a siren.
It's nice to have the Blogs get some credit. Isn't it nice when something started among the populace finds it's way into national mainstream discussion? It's not just us reporting on them.
Posted by Karl-Thomas Musselman at January 24, 2004 12:21 AM
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Larry Purpuro should be worried about the Democratic bloggers I know in Texas. They are paid-up members of local party organizations. They give money to campaigns, and often persuade others to do the same. They block-walk and phone-bank for their candidates. Some of them, e.g., folks at BOR, get even more serious, traveling to state caucuses or primaries to volunteer for a candidate. Larry Purpuro could well be blindsided if he ignores bloggers on our side of the political spectrum.
And I hereby swear that I have never once blogged in my bathrobe! (Sounds like a good idea, though...)
