Brown Sludge

It Was A Win For Conservatives Too

November 9th, 2006

What you permit, you promote.

It’s really just that simple.

Period.

Every true parent understands the wisdom behind NOT rewarding a child for bad behavior.

Oh… you’ve seen them… the overly soft parents who can’t stand to be too hard on their kids and let them get away with murder. Every transgression is met with a weak smile and a “What can you do?” shrug. The offspring of parents like this grow up to be disrespectful and despicable human beings.

You simply can’t send the message that misbehavior = reward.

Those conservatives who were handing out angry lectures to other conservatives touting the idea that not supporting the Republican party was heresy no matter how badly it had behaved just didn’t get it.

RINO my ass, I wanted my party back.

It used to be mine. K-Street took it. Corrupted it. Twisted it away from it’s core values and perverted into something I didn’t recognize anymore, and refused to give it back.

Voting those people back into office would have sent the clear message that I didn’t care about my party any more.

No way I was going to let that happen.

Now that they’ve lost control of BOTH houses it’s time to CLEAN house.

That having been said, one of the single best (true) conservative blogs out there is California Conservative.

He’s the quality mark that I think every real conservative blogger should be shooting for.

He’s everything a real blogger should be. He posts very regularly. His posts are intelligent and well thought out and well presented.

There are more than a few blogs out there that have a high hit count, but are peppered with posts from bloggers that are obviously just churning. No real red meat. Just post after post by writers with extremely little talent who are obviously just grinding in order to try to generate ad revenue. I call them “The Regurgitators”. They scan Drudge and AP and just rehash things they’ve seen on other blogs. Not only are they lacking in real insight, but they’re unbelievably unoriginal to boot.

How some of them are actually popular is a mystery I intend to solve.

Gary at California Conservative is the “anti-grinder”. You can tell he’s got a real fire in the belly, and his posts all have teeth. Every one of them.

Now… that isn’t to say that I agree with everything he posts. I don’t. I think like most conservatives he’s a little too quick to slap on the Gordon Gekko suit and throw himself in front of Corporate America, but… real issues mean real discussion, and nobody should walk lock-step with anyone else. Anyone who can’t agree to disagree is… “small-minded”.

Why California Conservative doesn’t have an astronomical hit-count and all the things that go with it I can’t figure out. When I read that one of the guys from the low-class “grinder” blogs got invited to a blog event or is appearing on one of the news channels to discuss an issue, I always sort of shake my head that Gary Gross isn’t. No way that’s fair.

It’s just a guess, but my bet is that he spends so much time researching and writing - he doesn’t have time to promote.

Currently, Gary is pretty P.O’d that things worked out the way they did on Tuesday. I can by this post tell he’s harboring more than a little resentment that things shook out they way they did.

He’s a little quick to start calling people RINO’s. I’d like to caution him that there were those of us who truly believed that the Republican Party had lost it’s way and veered so far away from it’s core values that burning it to the ground was the only way to insure change.

The Dems will eff this up. I promise. They’ll spend the next two years screwing up Iraq, holding hearings and trying to impeach Bush, trying to gerrymander districts, and throwing open the borders. They won’t be able to help themselves.

Republicans will spend the next two years taking stock, figuring out how to get back to their roots, and returning to fighting shape for 2008.

This… is a good thing.

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