I’d send RPV a check if I thought they’d use it to buy a clue.

As I’ve already mentioned, I didn’t go to the Republican advance.  And from what I’ve heard and read, I made the better choice.

Leslie Carbone has perhaps the best summary:  RPV v. Bloggers

Leslie says:  The Party wants to choose its candidates and pick its policies, and it wants the rest of us to follow lock-step. Sorry, that didn’t happen much before, and it’s going to happen less and less in the future. The two-way nature of social media allows more frequent and more public criticism than ever before. If the Party cared more about principle than about power, it could embrace blogs and other social media tools. Read more.

She’s exactly right.  The only thing the RPV ever asks of me is money.  And even though they haven’t received any since the Kilgore campaign, they’re still asking.

They keep telling me how important my support is.  But apparently not my blog or my activism.

With a string of losses, this doesn’t bode well for Republicans in Virginia.  Thankfully Bob McDonnell, Bill Bolling and Ken Cuccinelli have been reaching out to bloggers.  They get it.

See also:

Scott’s Morning Brew:  Republican Party’s laughable incompetency with social media…

The right-wing liberal:  John Brownlee’s bad weekend

Virginia Virtucon:  Brownlee Can’t Buy A Victory In Own Backyard

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