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Pachyderm In the Mist: The Dawn of Red America
Ben Domenech, co-founder of RedState, has put up his first post at his new blog Red America. What's most notable about this new conservative blog is its host venue - namely WashingtonPost.com, that most reliably liberal breastwork of the MSM.
Should be interesting.
Domenech pulls no punches as he begins the madness.
While the mainstream media has been slow to recognize the growth in conservative America, smart Democrats have not. Former Virginia Governor Mark Warner and Hillary Clinton are not alone in recognizing that the unhinged elements of their base, motivated by partisan rage, Michael Moore conspiracies and a pronounced feeling of victimhood have dragged down the Democratic Party for far too long. It's a political anchor apotheosized by the founders of leftist websites Daily Kos and MyDD, whose recently published book on political strategy and the Internet (an odd publication when one considers that DKos endorsed candidates are 0-19 in elections) opens with the sentence "Five years ago, the Republicans took over the government through nondemocratic means." Smart Democrats read this kind of rhetoric and recognize that if they continue to be the party of Howard Dean, the floor may be nonexistent.
Editor and Publisher details some of the early outrage from the left.
Elsewhere: Michelle Malkin, Iowa Voice, Protein Wisdom, Citizen Journal, Wizbang, Sister Toldjah
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What an utterly vapid blog. Not a single line there that isn't a tired old cliche; not an observation about the left that is true (Howard Dean is not left-wing; the founders of MyDD and Daily Kos are not advocating that the Democrats become left-wing; anti-Bush sentiment comes not from "unhinged" lefties but from pissed-off moderates and professionals; Republicans do not have the issue advantage on abortion, as Mike Rounds proved when his popularity plummeted after signing an abortion ban; etc.). It represents all that is detached from reality and intellectually incurious about the contemporary right. The Washington Post, which supported the Iraq War and the confirmation of Justice Alito among other things, would do better to add a genuinely liberal blogger (Dan Froomkin is anti-Bush but not an ideological liberal, and most of the other WP bloggers have barely-concealed contempt for liberals), or a "paleocon" blogger like Steve Sailer, or at least someone who won't tell us the same old foolishness we read on opinionjournal.com every day. The fact is that the WP hasn't been "reliably liberal" since at least 2002 -- and conservatives are the MSM now. Fox News and Judith Miller and the pro-war editorialists at the WP are "MSM"; the angry moderate bloggers like Kos and Jerome Armstrong are the alternative media. Finally, if they're going to write a blog "for the majority of Americans," how about a blog for the majority of Americans who think Iraq is heading for civil war and that Bush is doing a bad job as President? Anti-Bush sentiment is alive and well even in "Red America," thank God.Posted by: M.A. | Mar 21, 2006 12:10:45 PM
Howard Dean is not left wing? Kos is a moderate? WaPo isn't liberal? The MSM is conservative? You're putting me on, right?Posted by: Flip | Mar 21, 2006 1:37:35 PM
Flip: Howard Dean as governor was known for balancing budgets, supporting gun rights and other conservative policies. He supported the first Gulf War, which even John Kerry opposed. He is a moderate on every policy issue. He got defined as an angry leftist because he was against the second Gulf War -- but that's hardly a left-wing position, unless you think Brent Scowcroft and Pat Buchanan are lefties. Kos is a moderate too. In fact, he used to be a Reagan Republican because he supported Reagan's policies toward his native El Salvador. He seems to be leaning toward supporting Mark Warner (moderate Virginia governor) for President. These people are what might be called "angry moderates." They are not left-wing on any policy position, but they are angry at what Bush has done to the country. But you don't have to be a leftie to oppose the Iraq war, or to oppose Bush. Finally, the Washington Post's editors supported the Iraq War and still haven't fully stopped supporting it. They supported the confirmation of Alito. The New York Times's star reporter, Judy Miller, published false articles that backed up the administration's WMD claims. Would a "liberal media" do any of this, Flip?Posted by: M.A. | Mar 21, 2006 1:54:05 PM
Kos and Dean are certainly both angry, I'll grant you that. But if they're moderates, I shudder to consider the radicals.Posted by: Flip | Mar 21, 2006 2:15:18 PM
Flip -- a radical would be someone who opposes all wars (not just the Iraq war), or advocates socialism (not just, say, universal health care, which exists in non-socialist countries), or wants to ban guns (whereas Howard Dean supports gun rights). Someone is a "radical" based on the policies they advocate, not how angry they are. Howard Dean is angry, but all the policies he believes in are middle-of-the-road policies. Whereas, say, Noam Chomsky is calm and reasonable-sounding, but he's a radical.Posted by: M.A. | Mar 21, 2006 3:04:10 PM
MA: On Howard Dean: "all the policies he believes in are middle-of-the-road policies" - and you've cited his support for Desert Storm, balancing budgets, and his position on gun rights. Anything else? You could've posted your comment at The Onion and I would've laughed and laughed.Posted by: Bill Lalor | Mar 21, 2006 5:12:53 PM
Bill Lalor -- let me turn this around: can you name any policies Howard Dean advocates that are radical or left-wing? Don't bring up opposition to Iraq War II, because opposing the war was never a left-wing thing, and Dean opposed it for middle-of-the-road reasons (namely that it wasn't in U.S. interests to invade Iraq). You can laugh all you want to, but there is just nothing left-wing about the guy.Posted by: M.A. | Mar 21, 2006 6:44:28 PM
