Man in a Shed: Blogs at US party conferences

Thursday, September 04, 2008

Blogs at US party conferences

On a bit a crawl round the web to see what people are saying about Sarah Palin and I came across a blog which has really got its timing right (Update - in now appears this blog may have been the key nexus in getting Sarah on the ticket !) - see palin4vp.blogspot.com. The blog has three contributors Kristofer, Stephen R. Maloney and Adam Brickley, aka "ElephantMan".

I have no idea of their reputations, but see this post for pictures of how the Republican party treats its bloggers.

I wonder if Prague Tory and his mates will get as good treatment in Birmingham ? ( Now of course wish I was going, but there was too much time taken of over Summer and work to be done. Only Guido gets 4 day passes from a wife and mother of young children - how does he do it ? Well perhaps convincing her his web site is worth a million helps. )

PS Moonbattery has the news that Sarah Palin's performance was even better than we thought - as she delivered half of it after a teleprompter malfunction from memory !

The left are in real panic about here- with blatant lies being told and spectacular grumpy posts that they will live to regret as they clearly show the double standards these people live by.

Update: The PalinforVP Blog is being credited with getting her on the ticket by Daniel Hannan !

3 comments:

Praguetory said...: I have had no contact as part of being a Tory blogger, but have as part of being a Birmingham blogger. See the following message -

...the Conservative Party is keen to engage with the Birmingham blogging community and would like to invite you to attend the conference on one of these days and be given a full-tour and run down on proceedings.; 9:11 am
Man in a Shed said...: You know call me Mr Cynical if you like but I get the feeling that the party isn't in love with its pyjama brigade. Hence the planned launch of Conservative Pravada by central office.; 9:36 am
Praguetory said...: It would seem so. On the basis of the message I received, they have far more enthusiasm for non-Tory bloggers than for their own.

The Platform 10 blog was a joke.; 1:09 pm

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