Okay, It’s Not ALL About Me
NOTE: I’m keeping this or some other Weblog Awards-related post up top through December 15th, because frankly, I’m shameless about begging for your vote (and don’t forget you can vote every twenty-four hours!). Remember, every reader who votes for me gets the satisfaction of helping an obscure blogger rise to the pinnacle of earthly glory!
Oh, and keep scrolling down for newer posts…
I’ve been trying to rally the troops to support me in the 2005 Weblog Awards (notice that neat icon on the left? Just click it and vote – or click here), but all the categories have some great, great nominees. Here’s the spotlight on just one, the Best Conservative Blog:
The Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler
The Anchoress
Polipundit
Ankle Biting Pundits
Commonwealth Conservative
Say Anything
Right Wing News
Right Wing Nut House
Debbie Schlussel
Belgravia Dispatch
La Shawn Barber’s Corner
Just One Minute
The Jawa Report
Blogs For Bush
Ace Of Spades HQ
Now, you can’t really go wrong there, can you? Any of those blogs is a worthy winner, and I count several among my own favorites. However, I must say the great Tom Maguire at Just One Minute has reached a level that few can approach with his comprehensive, insightful coverage of the PlameGate affair – and I’m not just saying that because he’s been so kind to this blog (though he indeed has). Vote for your own preference, of course, but Tom has my vote in this category this time around…
I’d vote for Justoneminute anyday…
It might be a a small disservice though. He played really straight up, as opposed to the whacked sites of the left. Ariana was reading him everyday, along with the WaPo and NYT. Everyone who had a stake or a motive in Plame/Wilson came to Maguire’s posts.
His reporting didn’t strike me as ‘conservative’ so much as independent.
Still, it is the first blog I went to personally, for a span of a year, almost everyday. His work stands alone and will be difficult to repeat.
Glad you are a finalist. I voted.
Right back atcha stud! May the best woman win! Great blog, Congrats Mark
“Decision ’08… Because it’s Never too Early”
I beg your pardon. It’s waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too early. I mean seriously, come on! We just got done with the most draining election cycle in memory not much more than a year ago. And the midterm is already coming again in ’06. Who could possibly be that eager to go through all that again any time soon?
For as much good as the blogosphere does, I tink it’s also greatly contributed to this suffocatingly hyper-polarized state of lunacy we live in.
There are too many nut jobs on the right and the left who seriously need to sit down, shut up and get a grip.
John, thanks for showing up out of the blue and calling me a nut job! What a treat…if you don’t like it, guess what – there are one or two other blogs out there…why not give one of them a try?…
I suppose calling you a nut job was uncalled for. However, I still stand by my innitial point, which was that the political climate in this country has gone from spirited to caustic and obssesive in only a few short years.
As it stands, there are two widely accepted attitudes. 1. Bush is God, and 2. Bush is the devil. Somewhere along the lines, many Americans have lost all ability to think objectively and admit that politicians are people too, and as such will do both good things and bad things. I’ve heard some people call this intese state of national hyperbole a “post 9/11 world”. Call it what you will, it sucks. I do not enjoy being angry, and I can’t understand why some people do. Which is really what this all comes down to.
Instead of worrying about who will win in 2008, why not concentrate on what our so-called Republicans are doing for us right here and now. Last year, the big push was about getting Bush and the Republican congress elected. Now that they have retained their power, exactly how have they rewarded the base? What have they done to say thank you? As far as I’m concerned, they have basically sold us out by sitting on their hands.
So, no. At this stage of the game I don’t want to worry about who will win in ’08. The time for that will come soon enough. Now is the time for holding our current leaders’ feet to the fire. Afterall, what’s the point of worrying about elections if all we’re concerned about is winning, and the hell with the four years in between? What good does it do to have a total Republican majority if they’re going to act like the group that’s in there now? And if this is what the Republican party is turning into, that why should I care who wins? Other than the liberation of Iraq, what has Bush or the congress done? And last I checked, it was soldiers and Marines, not stuffed suits fighting and dying in Iraq.