I wish I had the lack of scruples you need to really cash in. I also wish that there were some some kind of liberal welfare. I do occasionally read Red State, and I find it second or third-rate in every measure that matters. Bad writing, poor reasoning, lousy editing, crappy comments, shitty community, lame administration, so-so layout. I’m pretty lame myself, but it’d be nice to have some conglomerate come along and buy this site for six figures, for CNN to give me a contract to mouth-off about shit I barely understand, and for people to pay for my endorsements of organizations I already support.
What cracks me up is how easy it is to rise to the top of the Republican commentariat. If you’re black, you’re already there. Just change your voting registration and you can be a highly-paid cable news pundit tomorrow. If you’re white it’s a little harder, unless you’re a blonde women. Blonde conservative women are interchangeable, but you can get in the rotation and fill-in when others are sick or traveling abroad on one of the National Review’s awesome cruises.
White men like me have to work to get to the top of GOP’s money-tree. It helps to hire people to dress up like pimps and create highly edited and misleading videos. But, really, if you can craft a coherent paragraph of previously approved talking points, you’ve got a shot to be the next Erick Erickson.
