Is there a Republican Kos?
: A reporter well-known to all of us asked whether there is a Republican Kos that is “creating his own targeted House and Senate races and getting money” them with Kos-like visitiblity. Can you name any?
27 responses to “Is there a Republican Kos?”
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maybe redstate.org, but to lesser effect.
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A lesser effect only because Redstate.org hasn’t been around as long as Kos… They’re building steam pretty quickly, though. You should see their traffic numbers. Ridiculous.
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Karl Rove.
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Screw Kos. hsn;t someone hung his charred corpse from a bridge yet. He is the worst kind of human being. A soldier who fough for his country, and now despises it.
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they got real jobs.
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I don’t know what you mean by “Kos-like visitiblity.” This guy: http://www.kerryhaters.blogspot.com/ is raising money for a Senate race, though.
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Let us pray there is not…
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Can you name any?
No. That’s because all the Republican bloggers and pundits are too busy asking everyone to donate money to them instead. Asking their readers to donate money to the party would risk cutting into their share. -
Hugh Hewitt repeated encourages readers and listeners to donate to John Thune and I think Jim DeMint.
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That’s because all the Republican bloggers and pundits are too busy asking everyone to donate money to them instead. Asking their readers to donate money to the party would risk cutting into their share.
Really? Fascinating. Like whom? I’m curious, really. -
Hugh Hewitt was my choice too, he promots Coors as well, but his radio show is cross pollenating his blog, so I am not sure if he fits KOS’s profile.
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Definitely redstate.org, which is just a month old. Gathered more than $1,000 for DeMint. Desire to counter Kos was a factor in its creation by Tacitus, Ben Domenech and Mike Krempasky, I believe.
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Really? Fascinating. Like whom? I’m curious, really.
Isn’t it Pledge Week at andrewsullivan this month?
Or is he a bad example? -
Thanks for the plugs, folks. RedState.org is just a month old, already has nearly 1,200 members, raised more than $1,000 per candidate in less than a week for both Tom Coburn (Oklahoma) and Jim DeMint (South Carolina).
As for why Kos is bigger – which we hope won’t be the case for much longer – it goes back to the old P.J. O’Rourke question about why it is that when leftists hold protests, they seem to always have ready-printed signs, organized phone lists and portajons. Meantime, when conservatives hold a protest, you end up with two members of the YAF waving miniature American flags on a street corner.
The chief reason for this, O’Rourke concluded, was that Republicans tend to have day jobs. -
Sullivan is a Lib!
“…Not that their is anything wrong with that, of course.”
So I would say that is a bad example. -
I think Blogs4Bush.com encourages donations to the RNC or the Bush campaign.
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Instapundit is the Republican Kos.
He just uses a different model. -
That’s because all the Republican bloggers and pundits are too busy asking everyone to donate money to them instead.
Whobert, our dear little permanent troll, have my eyes deceived me or does your little hutch/site have a “Make A Donation” link?
Let’s see if you can finish this metaphor…..“people who live in glass houses(sites) should never”……………what? -
Instapundit doesn’t raise money for specific candidates and, anyway, isn’t much of a Republican.
It appears that redstate.org is the answer you’re looking for, Jeff. They’re new but they’re rolling. -
Whobert, our dear little permanent troll, have my eyes deceived me or does your little hutch/site have a “Make A Donation” link?
You should probably have actually clicked on the link so you would have avoided making a complete ass of yourself.
Really? Fascinating. Like whom? I’m curious, really.
How about NRO for a start. -
McClelland: Aren’t you violating some kind of stupid Canadian law by casting aspersions? Why not try fucking yourself?
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My Canadian wife tells me that NDP stands for “Lenin Was Right.” I say this can’t be true. Who’s right, McClelland?
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So, McClelland, I take it I can put you down for a fiver at least? (That’s 2,548 Canadian dollars.)
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You’ll find info against Bush and Republicans on Instapundit quite often. I doubt anything like that exists on Kos. Glenn is hardly a “typical” conservative. He isn’t much of a conservative at all considering social issues. Does Kos ever question Dem leaders? I don’t read his site so I ask honestly.
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My Canadian wife tells me that NDP stands for “Lenin Was Right.” I say this can’t be true. Who’s right, McClelland?
Actually, you’re both wrong although your wife is closer to the truth. The NDP stands for “Let’s clone Lenin and put him in charge of the country.” -
The NDP stands for “Let’s clone Lenin and put him in charge of the country.”
I knew I’d seen Jack Layton somewhere before. -
Yes, Kos questions Dem leaders all the time.
There’s no equivalent online because GOPers have distribution channels set up already offline.
And yes, Instapundit is a hard core right-winger. I don’t know if he’s a Republican, but he’s pretty extreme.
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