RedState: #1 Right-of-Center Blog Read on Capitol Hill
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Danny Glover over at National Journal handed us some good news yesterday.
Of the top blogs on Capitol Hill, RedState is the number one right-of-center blog, and tied overall in 6th place with ABC News's "The Note," which is also one of my daily reads.
While I am thrilled that RedState ranks so high, and it is a confirmation of what we've been seeing for a long time, i.e. the right side of the Hill likes to hang out here, it is also very telling that the top blogs are Daily Kos, Wonkette, Talking Points Memo, and the Huffington Post. The left has been using blogs as a tool for longer than the right and it is clearly reflected in this data.
As we've said repeatedly here at RedState, we are conservatives, but we're also on the GOP's team. And over the next year we hope to become an even more widely read and relied upon resource as we fight from the minority to recapture Congress. Thanks for making us who we are.
[Editor's Note: I'm still perplexed by the number of people who think of The Drudge Report as a blog.]
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the best blog site I have seen. I have always been conservitive and know what my core values are but here I learned how to form an argument, to not just make a statement without haveing some facts behind it.
I have also had my mind changed on issues more than a few times here. You talk about getting an good perspective on every side of an issue, it happens here.
Most importantly (unless you are some kind of troll) this is the best place to air out ideas and opinions with the ingrade and vulger attacks that you would get from these other places when give a differing view.
Again, what impresses me the most is the way the editors and others run this. I have learned so much here, it really is exciting to come here and read what is said.
"I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way."
John Paul Jones (letter to M. Le Ray de Chaumont,16 Nov.1778)
I'm proud to have been there (almost) at the conception, and who knows, maybe my idea for the Congressional Lunch Corporation will actually take wing (The West Wing, that is...badump bump [cymbal crash!])
before our hard-working minority staffers get all enfeebled and we have to start enforcing "none too skinny" rules on them. ;)
I found RedState by accident more than two years ago and it was one of those moments when you just *know* that you're looking at something special and serendipidous, yet somehow divinely compelling. Dare I call it Kizmet?
Finally, inre: The Drudge Report as a "blog." Don't be too perplexed: there's a large cohort of the population that automatically assigns the latest meme to anything that seems remotely similar, even though it's completely different. People used to call that "stereotyping" but in our new, politically-correct, postmodern world, we have to recognize that those people aren't "wrong" -- they just have a "different way of knowing."
I read Redstate several times a day as I find it very informative of what is going on behind the headlines. As for the Drudge Report, maybe they consider anything on the Internet as a blog.