Not that I think it’s a fair charge, but the left does not own grassroots organizing. The right is just as, if not more, effective. Redstate is failing because it got into the game late. The big righty bloggers are still Powerline and they aren’t dropping that title anytime soon.

I guess you could also include Sullivan, Reynolds, and Charles Johnson, but none of them are focused on winning elections for Republicans like Powerline or Redstate, so they don’t really count. Although their readership is as grassroots as Kos’s.

Oh, and speaking of blogs in general, isn’t it kinda hard to call a medium mainly read by upper middle class white males grassroots?

Do you suppose that will continue when it’s being run by management with an eye on the bottom line?

My grammar may or may not be Ok, but my typing admittedly stinks. I post in a hurry a lot. Thre are times after my posts when I see what I miss and go ‘oh sh*t.’

I didn’t realize you and Oliver were both running this blog. I also find it amusing that I am called a ‘troll’ when I’ve been reading Oliver’s blog for about five years.

We’ve gone from “terrorist lovers” back to “communists.” Thank you! I’ve always preferred getting my orders from Moscow than from Mecca.

Dugger, is English your second language? I’m not one for grammar flames (at least, not anymore), but your last post was pretty bad.

To wrap this into a point … the two parties have handled the blogosphere in two different ways. The Democrats have held it in disdain, and as such its blogosphere is very diverse and popular, but has little to do with Old Media. The Republicans took control of its blogosphere, and as such it has great connections to the MSM (in spite of bashing it constantly) but isn’t as big, despite its older origins.

too many communists who like to hear themselves talk. and talk. and talk. and talk.

Brevity is the soul of more than wit.

Kos referred to armed private military contractors who operated in Iraq for a paycheck- not GOD, COUNTRY, FREEDOM(tm) nor under any uniform code or conduct or any regard for Geneva protocol.

If someone were to do the same thing and they were not American, what is it called then, MotherFugger?

Really? Who? John Hawkins? Ed Morrissey? James Joyner? Ace? Reynolds? Roger Simon?

You’re always saying that the conservative grassroots is a facade and that it’s all window dressing. Well show your cards man. Lay out how it’s all bogus.

Oh so you’re saying Kos is responsible for the Democrats taking over both chambers of Congress now?

And if Daily Kos is so bad, why did the right decide to copy them with Redstate?

They copied a format, certainly not the tone.

I may not always be wild about the content on Kos, but to pretend they’ve accomplished nothing is to just walk around with blinders.

I didn’t say they’ve accomplished anything, but let’s not pretend that (Like August up there) that Kos and his minions have established some new benchmark in winning elections.

Do you guys have a George Soros macro on your machines? That’s not a substitute for an actual argument you know.

Oliver, it’s a tad hypocritical of you to pounding your chest that the left side grassroots is keeping it real when the right said is just the old guard when in fact the left wing grassroots gets much of its support from the old guard and us run by a host of DC insiders.

Try and abide by the whole stones and glass houses thing.