Poole —
You seem to have conflated a few things. It wasn’t lefty blogging and what was said that carried the day for the left. It was the simple fact that they blogged at all; the image the younger crowd has is that they associate being able to operate somebody’s web software with tech savvy. And they assume tech savvy is common in the younger age brackets. Combine that with the “hope and change” nonsense and you get the snowball rolling down the hill effect.
What the lefty bloggers actually said was pig-ignorant and usually demonstrated a shockingly clueless naievete.
No amount of conservative blogging or demonstrations of being able to follow directions and operate software is going to make much (if any) difference.
You are making the same mistake now that investors made back in the 90′s before the tech bubble (and thus CAUSED the bubble.) They were unable to distinguish between technology creators (e.g. companies who invented the tech) and consumers (e.g. online pet food operations.) Idiotic tech illiterate investors simply assumed that a web enabled pet food operation was high tech and equivalent to IBM merely because the word ‘computer’ was found somewhere in the description. IBM created stuff. The pet food operators put a catalogue online. Ooooh. Real tech savvy, that. No kidding a bubble was created.
There’s a great deal to fix in the GOP, but trying to claim that being able to operate web software is going to be representative of that change is just silly.
Of course I realize that I’m talking to someone who probably assumes that his ability to operate software makes him a tech expert. Sad, that. You may want to reconsider your beliefs and apply just the rational part of your brain.
