March 28, 2007 Sweep

We are trying to build traffic at Republican sites.  Please pick two links and click on them, even if you don't read them.  Any two.  We don't care.  We can't build traffic unless readers come every day.  The best time to come is when you open your email.  Ask your children to do it too.  Think of it as a daily chance to vote for Republican ideas and ideals.  If you are concerned about finding negative stuff about Republicans, you needn't be.

Political Live Wires  Statewide GOP Calendar.  You will need a Yahoo account. Don't miss events needlessly.  Political Services Galore.  Lincoln Day Dinner?

Face The State  If you haven't seen this site, take a look and bookmark it.  We will wait a week before beginning coverage as we do with most new blogs.

Slapstick Politics   The Start Of A Meme--McInnis The Wonder Moderate  A head-to-head match-up between Schaffer and Udall would be a true test over the political divide in Colorado   A good read.

Slapstick Politics  Iraqi Immigrant Sues Tom Tancredo For $5 Million, Claims Defamation   But what is up with getting arrested 31 times? Even if the charges are dropped--due to lack of evidence or an unwillingness to press charges

Slapstick Politics  "Festival Of Democracy", Massive Protests Planned For 2008 Denver DNC  the "festival" will be anything but fun, exciting or peaceful.

Daily Blogster  Old Guy Boot Camp Diary  In 2002 at the age of 39 I attended a special Navy Reserve Boot Camp program that is now no longer available. Had it not been available at the time, I probably would not have been able to join.

Exvigilare  The Education Post  Well written,  Many links  We particularly like essays with this kind of effort put into them.

Exvigilare  Highway Scheme  This is a headline post which we would ignore EXCEPT that it leads to a good Political Avalanche essay and we are not yet covering that blog. 

Mount Virtus  Straw Poll Deadline 

Mount Virtus  Salazar and Udall Explain Defeatist Votes  Colorado’s own Democrat Senator and would-be Senator have a LOT more explaining to do.

Best Destiny  Salazar's Excuse  “I remain hopeful the President will listen and support it.” [but we don't really care, because he has no other options available to him as of March 31, 2008]

Best Destiny  The Would-be Other Senator's Excuse   This man would be your Senator, Coloradoans.

Best Destiny  Senator Hagel, You Should Keep Those Tee-Times  Because a primary run for the GOP nomination, ... is Quixotic

Colorado Charter Schools  Charter Schools Provide Choice and Innovation in Education  "The charter school model greatly resembles the 'free market' economy model. Let's say you own a business that must compete against numerous other businesses similar to yours. You are going to do everything within your power to make your business a better choice than your competitors.  You are unlikely to see this elsewhere.

Colorado Conservative Project  Beauprez Endorses Romney  Me: *yawn*

Colorado Conservative Project  Dennis Kucinich is Crazy  It turns out that my favorite liberal loon, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) is married to the "Dog Queen".

Colorado Conservative Project  Stormy Weather in Colorado Blogosphere  We are going to drop the matter at this point in hopes of it just going away.   Much appreciated!

Colorado Conservative Project  Wanna Blow Stuff Up?   Heck yes I do. Who doesn't like to cut loose at dynamite with a belt-fed, fully automatic weapon every now and then?

Colorado Conservative Project  Flowery Introductions and a lack of substance  John and the imaginary version of Mr. Lyman have been kind enough to let me come play in their sandbox over here and I'm darn excited about it.

Colorado Conservative Project  Dems Redefine Family - Update  SB07-124 revised the Colorado Housing Authority Act, but hidden in it is language that redefines the family unit. 

Colorado Conservative Project  New Contributor  While he's still deciding upon his alias, you can expect a new and very humorous perspective to be coming to the pages of this blog very soon.

Colorado Conservative Project  Worst GOP Legislators?  Tim Gill front group, Colorado Confidential has released several lists of the most (and least) successful legislators this session.

To the Right  The email is accurate.  The subject was "TTR Grow up or Get Lost."  He made his choice, and we will honor it.  The photo is so much better than the real thing.  Oh, and we wanted to thank him for sending his readers this way.  As they say in show business, sometimes bad press is better than no press.

Colorado Senate News  House Democrats pass anti-gun bill to guv  “This bill is an unnecessary restriction on concealed-carry permit holders,” Brophy said. “I’m disappointed that it’s moving on.”

We got no email suggestions as to how to remind bloggers to do things like include good hooks, etc., without it looking like direct criticism, so we came up with a solution.  We will be including the following daily:

Bloggers:  If you want your essay to be effective and read, consider the following:  1)  Name calling is not effective even when Democrats are the target.  2)  Use a spell checker. 3) Avoid long paragraphs  4)  Put hooks in your essay so that it has a lifetime beyond a few days. 5)  Use links to others and your own work, but not to excess. 6) Excessive negativity about Republicans hurts all Republican blogs.   

Comments:  The goal here remains that we will have a site that Republicans can come to and know that they won't be sent off to a blog entry that they might find distasteful enough to turn them off to Republican blogs.  We didn't intend to become part of the problem, but it is obvious that that has happened.  We hope we have handled it in the most tasteful and appropriate way possible, given the circumstances. 

We apologize to BDG, who through a miscommunication got embroiled in an issue he knew nothing about.   

 
 

 

Comments

[truthseeker]

Gosh, I don't see Political Pale Horse listed either. Did you forget to include them, or are you going to make them "regret ever taking you on?"

[Laughing in Denver]

McDowell, you're a idiot. No one reads your lame blog any way. It's funny that you think you know who authors ToTheRight. You don't even have a clue.

[keep up the good work]

I think your blog is great, and a must read!

[you have a lot of apologies to make]

Tom - you really do have a lot of apologies to make. Until that happens, you will have no credibility within the blogsphere.