On Tuesday of last week, I wrote a piece called Building A Rightroots Movement that generated a lot of blog posts, emails, and instant messages. So, I wanted do a follow-up post today to cover to some of things have......

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Exactly right Rick - the same goes for the inclinations of individuals who have worldviews that are labeled as left or right

Sadly in a very short for comments section one must resort to shorthand descriptions of complex phenomena in order to avoid writing a book to make a fairly simple point.

I think the biggest issue for the lack of a 'right' roots is the internal conflicts in the GOP have not been ripped open with acid poured into the wounds (yet) in the same manner that the progressive bloggers were marginalized in 2002 over Iraq... you need a lot of mutually aggrieved people who think that they have a leverage point of power to correct their pereceievd effective powerlessness (or at least that is the netroots story)

I don't think it's an accident that the social conservatives have taken over the power structures within the Republican Party (to the party's detriment). They are temperamentally more inclined towards organization and group action than libertarians are.

Who, precisely, will be organizing? Liberal Republicans have mostly become Democrats (or independents). Paleocons and libertarians are by principle and temperament unlikely to build an organization. And the social conservatives and neocons have gotten the GOP in the fix in which they find themselves now.

Dr J, the reason I've been reading you for years is that you have perfected the required art of subtly balancing between non-hackery and apostasy.

A Soros for the Right

Isn't it always interesting how the preservers of the market economy over on the Right are always looking for a welfare check? While the Socialist bloggers on the Left pull themselves up "from their bootstraps", the Right is looking for a "handout".

Sure, it looks like our side’s down at the moment. The 2006 midterms were a bloodbath and it’s looking like we’ll go back-to-back come Tuesday. Might I suggest that this has nothing whatever to do with the comparative organization of the two sides but rather the poor job Republican politicians did when given the chance?

Ya think? To use an automobile analogy, during the last eight years, the Republicans have designed and rolled out, for the political public's consumption, an Edsel. Now, in the Grand Prix, that Edsel is blowing black smoke, leaking oil, and trailing parts all over the track. Your side needs a new design.

He’s intrigued by Hawkins’ idea of finding a conservative sugar daddy to finance would-be activist hacks."

So a movement largely financed by sugar daddies (Coors, Scaife, etc.) is complaining that the other side has one?