I didn't mind that the Republicans lost in 2006.
They needed a cleansing wakeup...but, the best is what I expected to happen.

The "party of treason" is ripping itself apart - with 18 months to go.

There's little doubt he can energize the voting base, however. It just doesn't vote the way he thinks it will.

Hugh Hewitt and his fellow bitter enders at the Victory Caucus plan a wave of primary challenges to GOP congressmen and senators who dare depart from lockstep support for the war in Iraq. Meanwhile, over on the left side of...

Sure. But there's much, much more of this among the 50,000+ daily reader liberal blogs than their counterparts on the Right. Indeed, there's very little activism in any sense (aside from generic things like Porkbusters) among the top tier conservative blogs.

Aren't the rightroots in the throes of organizing a loyalty oath as we speak? They just don't have the efficacy. You'll say "not all of them," but that's true on both sides. It's too easy to see intellectual comformity on the other side of the divide, and division on your own.

The Left Blogosphere is far ahead of their Right counterparts in organization and energy but lags substantially in political maturity

forgive me, James, but it strikes me that their lack of political maturity is of a piece withe their political posiitons. Cut and run, for example, doesn't strike me as being a very mature position to take.

That's right on the money, James, and pretty funny besides. Reminds me of one of my favorite essays by Russell Kirk.

True enough. But Tauscher isn't even a DINO; she's a pretty solid centrist Democrat.

I'm not so sure about the maturity question. Rightroots allowed emotions to rule over common sense in their backing of Diana Irey versus John Murtha. Rightroots raised more money for this losing race and Irey got whipped. Something we both knew would happen from the beginning.

Bill