Netroots on Both Sides

http://www.reason.com/news/show/116755.html

A great deal has been said about the "netroots" movement on the left, but little has been spoken of regarding the influence of their right-wing internet counterparts. While redstate.com is mentioned as a foil in passing to DailyKos, it has yet to achieve the same level of stardom in its own right as the liberal blogosphere has. Though the two ends of the partisan spectrum vary widely in perspective, they are relatively similar in the tropes they trade on -- indictments of their party establishment, a yen to appear in on insider moves, and a perpetual conviction that there side is not being given a fair shake by the mainstream media. That this article by Eric Pfeiffer looks at the Republican Study Committee, a group of fiscal hawks in Congress, and only in passing mentions the influence of the internet activists that forms their base shows how far the conservative netroots needs to come before they can come close to contesting the liberals for supremacy in the influence-through-the-internet war.