Frames, beliefs and opposition groups

By Fester:

I've been keeping an eye on The Next Right because it has a couple of very interesting rights, and over the long-run a Republican Party that is not beholden to anti-Enlightenment zealots is a very good thing.  An effective counterweight should reduce the incentive and opportunity for amazing feats of Democratic douchebaggery. 

However Patrick Ruffini in a post that attempts to spark a discussion on why there is no right wing equivilant to the netroots makes a bit of a blunder that will sink the effectiveness of any group that emerges from this or many other discussions (irregardless of Tuesday's results)

Most conservative blogs are still stuck in 2003 -- both in terms of the overwhelming focus on media criticism and punditry, and the tendency to outsource electoral politics to the Republican Party. This was in some ways legitimate response to what was happening in 2003-4, when media surrender-monkeys were undermining the War on Terror, Republicans had a kick-butt political operation, and Kos was going 0 for 16. [emphasis mine]

The war on terror in his (and I assume, most right wing minds) includes both an authoritarian desire to suppress questioning AND more importantly having Iraq as the Central Front! 

As long as there is a core underpinning, the right wing bloggers will be pissing up hill and into the wind in any district that won't automatically vote for an indicted ham sandwhich with an R next to their name. 

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