Do Republican Grassroots Even Exist? (500th Post!)

Not according to the coverage spun in this little article.

A' la the Air America media blitz, here is more shameless, naked promotion and free advertising for the Democrats and their supporters masquerading as "news" from the AP. Note the lack of conservative grassroot organizations mentioned or profiled. I wouldn't bring it up, except that the Republican groups are obviously more effective since THEY WON. MoveOn.org and their moonbat leigions were instrumental in the defeat of John Kerry (what, with their TV ads comparing Bush to Hitler and the like), but that inconvenient fact escapes mention or analysis here.

Again - the liberal grassroot movement was the LOSING effort. The real story is how despite these "all powerful and influential" liberal outlets, the Republican grassroots effort still beat the Democrats. Resoundingly.

A particularly revelatory (and humorous) quote form the piece is spake thus by the story's obligatory Democrat commentator:

At a time when we are craving community and meaning in our lives, people are using these technologies to find others with the same complaints and organize them," he said. "They don't have to just sit in a coffee shop and gripe about politics. They can change politics.

He makes several assumptions here that are humorous to me. First, I would like to know why he assumes that we are all craving "community and meaning in our lives" in the context of liberal political websites - it is the activists on these sites who are craving community and meaning. The rest of us simply go about our lives. He also reinforces the traditional stereotype of liberals - they whine about everything. He is basically admitting that the sites are little more than ways for like-minded whiners to get together and whine loudly. They don't actually do anything about their percieved slights -they just get together, submit press releases to news outlets and whine about whatever irks them at that moment. The third and perhaps most humorous assumption is that we are all sitting around in coffee houses discussing politics. Sorry, but America is not Seattle. Average Americans are not sitting around in coffee houses - they are working and earning their collective living while the whining hippie-retreads are sitting around in the coffee houses discussing "politics" - all the while doing absolutely nothing.

This is too easy.

The AP has long ceased to be a news organization, and is instead a propaganda agency for the Democrat party in the United States, and the World Socialist party internationally. If only MoveOn.org membership translated into votes. They can dream, can't they?