At last week's Conservative Political Action Conference, Republican bloggers held forth on why their efforts at making waves in the cyberpond have so far amounted to no more than feeble ripples. What got the blame?
Erick Erickson... conceded that progressives currently enjoy an advantage over conservatives online—though he attributed it to an asymmetry in free time, since conservatives "have families because we don't abort our kids, and we have jobs because we believe in capitalism."
See, we're making 30 million hits a month because you're all a bunch of baby killing loafers, while Republicans are far too busy to chat. It makes you wonder why Erickson even tries.
It couldn't possibly be that they've spent their time online acting as apologists for disaster, that their discussion is as exciting as the stage guests at a John McCain rally, and that the ideas they're selling are the same ones that have failed spectacularly for... well, ever.
It couldn't possibly be that what they came to sell CPAC, their wonderful "GOP 2.0," is nothing more than clumsy immitation of what liberal bloggers have been doing for years.
Daniel Glover outlined some of the potential political uses of his video site. Users could, for instance, record local examples of media bias, tape instances of leftist activists harassing conservative speakers on college campuses, or seek to catch liberals in their own "Macaca moments." Glover also pointed to the progressive Center for Independent Media as a model for citizen journalism he hoped conservatives could emulate and improve upon.
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Finally, David All discussed his site ... which he described as conservatives' "answer to ActBlue."
Oh, wait, maybe it could.
Maybe I've misunderstood all these years, but when something won't sell, isn't it usally the product that's at fault?