Dem vs. Rep netroots

by: Carnacki

Mon Nov 26, 2007 at 20:55:37 PM EST

Chris Bowers:

I'm not really sure why Republican activists have apparently no ability to engage in self-starting activism of this nature. I've floated some theories on this in the past, but this complete lack of creativity and self-directed content production stuns even me. Republicans are clearly facing a massive creativity gap at the grassroots level, one that cannot be easily explained away. In fact, the NRSC recently asked supporters to post videos saying what they were thankful for, and only got one response.

Truly and utterly pathetic. Republicans seem to have created an army of zombies that can't think for themselves. In the past, I have been reluctant to apply the term dittohead to the Republican rank and file, but their continuing failures to conduct any self-starting activism whatsoever is making the word more apt all the time.

Of the five (count 'em baby!) entries in the NRCC's contest, I agree with Bowers that this one is by far the best.

I've written before how little original thought is shown by the rightwing bloggers in West Virginia like Don Surber and the gone and forgotten Bow Tie Boy and how they're just cogs in the rightwing noise machine.

One of the difference between the Democratic side of blogtopia (yes skippy coined that phrase) is we don't take top down marching orders, but rather push from the grassroots up.*

So when we're on the side of Democrats, as with Rockefeller on many issues, you know we're bringing a level of energy and passion and creativity that the right can't match.