[backhoe]

I'm a FReeper as well as a blogger - and to be honest with you , I'm quite impressed at the organizational efforts made by our misguided liberal adversaries even if I do disagree with their message. On our side we have no effective counterbalance to effectively combat the left - I wouldn't go so far as to say we are winning, we are in many respects losing on a few fronts.

I've noticed that, too.

The Nutroots, err, Left, seems to be well coordinated, while the Right is, well, like trying to herd cats.

[expatguy]

Conservative blogging is more or less a popularity contest - those currently leading the pack have little that really qualifies them to speak out on the plethora of subjects many either insinuate or at times even outright claim to be an expert in.

I was a amazed a while back when I saw a television interview in the United States of a *popular female blogger* and the interviewer was asking her some quite cerebral questions concerning Islam and this women kept going like the energizer bunny spouting off crap that she knew absolutely nothing about.

Interestingly enough the right side of the blogosphere is now becoming what they initially set out to defeat. If you are not part of the clique, then your voice is shut out from the mainstream of conservative blogging. Of course in the Wild Wild West of blogging - you can still find your own niche I suppose - but there remains no effective coordination as we see developing on the left. Many times the message does not get out - or the message that does is flawed.

After 9/11 I thought for a brief moment that my overseas experience living and working in a muslim country might add something constructive to the national debate that was starting to develop - well in many ways I have become disillusioned - it seems that everyone is a not only a pundit but an expert as well. ~ recently I've even had some of the bigger popular bloggers simply rewrite my posts and post them as their own - and that does piss me off.

If this sounds like sour grapes...well maybe there is a tingle of bitterness on my part... I can't deny that - but more importantly the national debate seems to be going no where - just repeating the same tired mantras over and over - in the end we all lose and not just me.

Thanks for letting me get that off my chest.