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Democrat kook convention

June 9, 2006 12:42:38 PM from JoeUser ForumsJoeUser Forums
Tell me again how the democratic party is not based with loons.


Las Vegas -- Two years ago, the first bloggers credentialed to cover the Democratic National Convention in Boston were treated as a novelty, guests at the restricted club where mainstream media reporters and politicians hobnob.

This weekend, in a sign of how new media is reshaping politics, some of the nation's top Democratic politicians are flocking to the first major offline convention inspired by a political blog, the Berkeley-based Daily Kos.

At the Riviera Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, politicians, labor leaders and liberal interest groups are swooning before more than 1,000 "netroots" activists, mindful of the groups' ability to spread political buzz and raise quick cash.

One political consultant mused that blogs are creating a pre-presidential primary primary, forcing candidates to stump for online support before they get donations and votes.

Since they hit the mainstream during Howard Dean's presidential run three years ago, political blogs have multiplied. Among ad-generating sites, there are 104 conservative political blogs, according to online advertiser Blogads. But the top 88 liberal blogs generate an estimated 17 million page views a week, five times as many as their conservative counterparts.


http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/06/09/MNGT9JBI2M1.DTL&type=politics
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Reply #1 June 9, 2006 1:21:13 PM
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ID: What are you talking about, specifically? I don't see anything there that makes them loons. They seem pretty smart, if you ask me. The Republicans won the Internet war in the last election by chance. They did very little to help the effort.

To me it looks like the Dems are doing their best to use the Internet as much as they can. What's loony about that? If Republicans ignore the power that these people have to help them, doesn't that make THEM kooks?
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Reply #2 June 9, 2006 1:30:21 PM
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Are you not familiar with the loons at kos? They are the next step over from the DU.

The democrats using the internet is not looney, it's the loons they are using.
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Reply #3 June 9, 2006 1:37:25 PM
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Yeah, but you can't count on moderate people to get out there and smear and spread rumors and 'lie for truth'. Moderate people stay home and watch TV.

The people you are talking about are the ones that get out there and do their dirty work for them. Maybe they are kooks, but honestly what works, works. You can bet Republicans wish for as many kooks like that as they can get. Think of how much you'd have to pay someone to devote the time Col Gene devotes for free.

As ugly as the next election is going to be, Republicans had better start wooing the kooks themselves.
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Reply #4 June 9, 2006 1:56:05 PM
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Republicans had better start wooing the kooks themselves.

You shall know the kooks, and the kooks shall set you free!
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