cross-posted at skippy as well as a literal cornucopia of other community blogs.
now, before you all get the vapors over the title of this post, sit back, take a sip of whatever gets you thru the night, and listen to what we have to say.
skippy has been lucky this past week, having had an actual job that pays actual money for a change. (this explains the light posting as of late, and, we hope, the dropping sitemeter. our traffic stats for skippy are heading the way of awol’s poll numbers, and we don’t like that one bit. guess we’ll have to fire some people. hear that, rj?)
on the job was a lovely young woman whom skippy chatted up during one of the interminable breaks in the work. skippy was psychotically shy as a young ‘roo, and now, realizing that pretty women don’t bite (unless you pay extra), he takes every chance he can to flirt with them.
more on tne young woman’s connection to dc politics, and how impressed she was with skippy (really!) after the jump:
now, before you all get the vapors over the title of this post, sit back, take a sip of whatever gets you thru the night, and listen to what we have to say.
skippy has been lucky this past week, having had an actual job that pays actual money for a change. (this explains the light posting as of late, and, we hope, the dropping sitemeter. our traffic stats are heading the way of a<span style=”color:#ffcc33;”>w</span>ol’s poll numbers, and we don’t like that one bit. guess we’ll have to fire some people. hear that, rj?)
on the job was a lovely young woman whom skippy chatted up during one of the interminable breaks in the work. skippy was psychotically shy as a young ‘roo, and now, realizing that pretty women don’t bite (unless you pay extra), he takes every chance he can to flirt with them.
this lady was actually quite impressed that skippy wrote a political blog, and was even more impressed when he mentioned all the mainstream media outlets that have referenced our humble site (back when we actually got national press. hi, abbi!).
it seems that her husband used to work with the repubbb campaign for 2000, pretty high up in the organizational chart. we promised her we would not specify his job, because then that would identify him, and consequently her, and we assured her anonymity in exchange for being able to report on this conversation.
to make a long story short…oh, well, yes, you are right, it is too late for that…anyway, she told skippy that her husband and his repubbb peers absolutely loved the blogs and gave them great stock in the success of their party in 2000.
she continued to tell skippy that the repubbbs who were working with the blogs credited the blogs with such events as garnering votes, spreading the platform, and getting out the vote. she said her husband believes the blogs were greatly responsible for turning tennessee and virginia red in 2000.
the conversation came to a succinct point: the blogs are the new townhall of the 21st century.
(disclaimer, for those of you worried about her: she’s not repubbb, and in fact, her hubby has stopped working for the party to attend business school. skippy asked her was it was like for a liberal like her to be married to a repubbb, politics-wise, and she said “don’t go there.” skippy didn’t).
thusly, we come to our conclusion, as referenced in the title to this piece. why can’t the dems be more like the repubbbs? last weekend’s washpost, in their extreme makeover of maryscott o’connor into a raging harpy, asked, do blogs have any effect?
the answer is, of course they do. but only if people listen, and by people, we mean those in the corridors of power. the repubbbs were incredibly bright enough to use blog-power to help them sneak into office 6 and 4 and 2 years ago.
but will the dems be equally as smart? it remains to be seen. but if the democratic party had any wits about them at all, they would be sending a cavalcade of representatives to yearlykos, not just to speak, but to listen. they would be hiring full-time employees to just read the blogs, garner ideas and opinions from them, and bounce said ideas and opinions off their own staff infrastructure.
it’s starting, little by little. a few select congressjerks are actually posting on dkos and elsewhere, and we just today learned that ex-governor mark warner will be attending ykos.
we don’t know if anybody in power reads this humble site, except, of course, for the lackeys in the surveillance boiler room over at the comittee on unamerican activities (hi, karl!). if they do, we’d suggest that they start getting their peers and their acts together, and use the power of the blogs to reach out to their constituency.
it worked for the repubbs, and it can work for the dems.
this lady was quite interested to learn that skippy wrote a political blog, and was even more impressed when he mentioned all the mainstream media outlets that have referenced our humble site (back when we actually got national press. hi, abbi!).
it seems that her husband used to work with the repubbb campaign for 2000, pretty high up in the organizational chart. we promised her we would not specify his job, because then that would identify him, and consequently her, and we assured her anonymity in exchange for being able to report on this conversation.
to make a long story short…oh, well, yes, you are right, it is too late for that…anyway, she told skippy that her husband and his repubbb peers absolutely loved the blogs and gave them great stock in the success of their party in 2000.
she continued to tell skippy that the repubbbs who were working with the blogs credited the blogs with such events as garnering votes, spreading the platform, and getting out the vote. she said her husband believes the blogs were greatly responsible for turning tennessee and virginia red in 2000.
the conversation came to a succinct point: the blogs are the new townhall of the 21st century.
(disclaimer, for those of you worried about her: she’s not repubbb, and in fact, her hubby has stopped working for the party to attend business school. skippy asked her was it was like for a liberal like her to be married to a repubbb, politics-wise, and she said “don’t go there.” skippy didn’t).
thusly, we come to our conclusion, as referenced in the title to this piece. why can’t the dems be more like the repubbbs? last weekend’s washpost, in their extreme makeover of maryscott o’connor into a raging harpy, asked, do blogs have any effect?
the answer is, of course they do. but only if people listen, and by people, we mean those in the corridors of power. the repubbbs were incredibly bright enough to use blog-power to help them sneak into office 6 and 4 and 2 years ago.
but will the dems be equally as smart? it remains to be seen. but if the democratic party had any wits about them at all, they would be sending a cavalcade of representatives to yearlykos, not just to speak, but to listen. they would be hiring full-time employees to just read the blogs, garner ideas and opinions from them, and bounce said ideas and opinions off their own staff infrastructure.
it’s starting, little by little. a few select congressjerks are actually posting on dkos and elsewhere, and we just today learned that ex-governor mark warner will be attending ykos.
we don’t know if anybody in power reads skippy, except, of course, for the lackeys in the surveillance boiler room over at the comittee on unamerican activities (hi, karl!). if any politicos do, we’d suggest that they start getting their peers and their acts together, and use the power of the blogs to reach out to their constituency.
it worked for the repubbs, and it can work for the dems.
