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August 17, 2009 05:25 PM UTC
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McInnis doesn’t condone the use of Nazi imagery to attack the opposition. Unlike some people.
This red herring bullshit can’t go unanswered. The guys at the rally in GJ were told to leave. If you notice WST’s shoddy pictures, they’re holding their signs outside the boundaries of the permit area for the event.
The rally organizers didn’t condone the nazi imagery as you suggest. They didn’t approve and asked the guys to leave. If WST would have had the balls to talk to the nazi sign people, he would have learned as much.
How long do you think Sen. Penry will be able to walk the line between appearing next to these morons and then saying (or getting his sock puppets to say) he doesn’t condone it days later?
Face it, there has been no attempt by the Republican Party to distance themselves from this kind of tactic. That includes Josh Penry.
I thought they were informative.
I’m glad he went. I wish I had gone. I was busy setting up at Central High.
is the choice of your deception now? Those signs were there from when I arrived until Penry and I both left. Are you saying Penry got on the cell phone and called someone after he fled the scene? Penry sure didn’t have “the balls” to say anything to the goobers after he said he would. And why were Penry lemmings lined up, laughing and saying “how true” while viewing the signs? The signs were right in the area in which Penry was doing his media interviews. Are you saying there is an imaginary line somewhere? You really do need better spin than that.
the Penry lemmings to leave instead of just throwing the signs in a automobile trunk or the like. Are you saying Penry is trying to squash his supporters right to be at the festivities?
Lot’s of issue down there.
several times. I keep getting gently put off. My guess is he doesn’t want to talk to any large groups at present. My assumption is that he doesn’t realize that the campaign has already started – because all he knows is how campaigns ran 10 years ago.
We all know you are in the tank for Penry. So, let’s take your posts with a grain of salt.
We missed your quality commentary during the McInnis Meltdown last week. Have you guys formulated a strategy yet to address the rising concern about Scott’s temperment?
our blood is still boiling because that fucking Geithner is such a tax cheat.
Damn you Geithner !
For what it’s worth (not very much) Penry’s shills are winning the shill war.
If not, he gets my respect.
And maybe one more. I can’t really tell if they are because they’re not as blatant as the three Penry shills. But when it comes to shilling, subtlety is not the goal.
He definitely thinks it doesn’t matter in an election. It’ll be interesting to see if that changes.
That conclusion is based on what, David? His refusal to do an interview with you?
Face it, you’re not the center of the universe for a Republican primary.
He’s doing the same stuff on Twitter, Facebook and with his site as Penry and Ritter are, though maybe not as vigorously or as well. He’s also been campaigning pretty much nonstop since February, contrary to your assertion in another post that he doesn’t realize the campaign has started yet.
(And in case this suggests I’m a McInnis shill, maybe even by the guy who said I must be a Penry shill, I’ll just point out this is merely questioning David’s hubris.)
He’s doing a bit on Facebook & Twitter but my guess is that is just basic stuff up there with having a website. But I haven’t seen any significant activity up on the web.
And no, I’m not the center of the universe – Republican or Democratic. But I am free press on the web and my interviews do get good Google so it’s “of note” that he’s not interested in that.
What is really interesting is he’s not finding any way to get his own story out on the web. Ritter has Jim Carpenter posting. Bennet has a campaign member doing live blogging of events. Penry is everywhere.
But McInnis, Buck, & Frazier? They’re letting others frame them on the web. Not smart.
It IS early. Except for the really committed activists and political junkies, nobody cares about the governor’s race right now.
The web obviously is of great import to you, but the great unwashed out there, you know, most of the people who actually vote, aren’t mind-melded to the web.
I am not a McInnis shill. I’m a Democrat. But do not underestimate his ability to raise money and campaign in front of voters. Democrats have underestimated him in the past and he beat them.
We’re all learning as it goes along. About the only thing that you have agreement on is it carries more weight in total than anything except TV ads.
But one thing I have found from business, and marketing is marketing, is that quality on topic posts over time are the most powerful way to market on the web. As I am writing this we just got a lead in at work where the source is a post in a programming forum from 2005. You can’t place that kind of coverage in a month.
Building up that mass of content throughout the web doesn’t help till we get into the active part of the election. But by then it’s way too late to create it. That’s why I think what goes on now matters – because it will count in a year.
never ceases to amaze. Example:
Assertion: “I’ve yet to see him do anything active anywhere on the web”
Very next sentence: “He’s doing a bit on Facebook & Twitter but my guess is that is just basic stuff up there with having a website.”
I’m sure you have some tortured reason as to why your mutually exclusive claims make sense. Can’t wait.
Uh, David, Carpie posted a couple times on here (and the Kenney people got in trouble for sock puppetry) — and that counts as “finding [a] way to get his own story out on the web”? Or is it that Ritter and Penry have more vocal shills on Pols, so they’re winning the War of the Web — by all accounts!
Forgive me for wondering whether you’ve really got this whole web thing figured out with your decidedly narrow focus on a few sites (including your own, that “gets Googled”). Remember last week when you boiled down the Colorado blogosphere to three sites, managing to forget at least one that gets, on average, five times as many unique visitors?
Fortunately, the web is a big place. Both Penry and McInnis — yes, the one who isn’t campaigning yet and doesn’t realize the web exists — sat for interviews with the Rocky Mountain Independent, in conjunction with a story by Chuck Ashby posted today: http://www.rockymountainindepe…
Here’s Penry: http://www.rockymountainindepe…
Here’s McInnis: http://www.rockymountainindepe…
I’d observe Penry blows McInnis away in their respective interviews, though neither one is forced to answer how much he loves his job or whether he wishes he had more daughters.
I was not aware of those – really good. I wish they had transcripts as that would get them more traffic (so Google would know what was said on them).
On the 3 sites – the stats were limited to 3 sites and I just put in my guess as to the top 3. If it had allowed 5 then the Colorado Independent would have been included.
As to winning the battle on the web, see above.
David, I agree McInnis is running a stumbly campaign, at least from the perspective of someone who’s not on his finance committee. Still, you’ll have to admit, all three gub candidates have taken a beating on Pols. Penry has FTS and RMR in his corner, which amplifies his presence.
But my point wasn’t that McInnis is running a stellar campaign (though he does have tons more Twitter followers than Penry and, more importantly, he’s following them back, which shows an understanding that Twitter is a conversation, not just a broadcast outlet). It was that your contention, “He definitely thinks [the web] doesn’t matter in an election,” is bunk.
is that I can’t go into why I believe he doesn’t think much of the web.
And it might be more accurate to say that I don’t think he understands how to effectively use the web. But he’s not alone there.
I think Bennet, Penry & Ritter are the only statewide campaigns that have a decent understanding of how to effectively use the web. A year from now it’ll be interesting to see how the web plays out for Penry vs McInnis – we may have a great test case here.
I’m assuming the McInnis campaign sent you an email dismissing your interview request along the lines, “We’re ignoring bloggers but thanks for asking,” right? Why would that be confidential? If a legitimate news source writes a campaign, the response is fair game. Or is this like the “off-the-record lunch” with David Kenney you crowed about?
that I treat any incoming email as confidential unless it specifically startes that I can post it. (Comes from what I’ve always done in business.)
I have asked at times if I can post an incoming email. 90% of the time when I do I get a no or no reply.
Anyways, that’s my rules for email. I’m aware that others have different rules and that’s fine for them. But this approach has served me well for 20+ years.
It’s a bad idea to automatically grant anonymity or to consider things off-the-record, but reporters (and people acting as such) should make clear what the rules of engagement are. A personal email should be considered confidential unless it’s proof of corruption or something.
a McInnis campaign official basically told you to screw off because they’re not wasting their time with bloggers?
I guess you’re right, Scottie’s going do-o-o-own.
It’s just that Scottie doesn’t know.
(This is my night for totally pointless pop culture references.)
A nice GOP primary is so much fun to see.
I see him raising a shitload of money.
Next FEC report will calibrate my assumptions. If he’s outraised, he’s dead. But if he’s raising instead of posturing, then he has his priorities straight.
I’m keeping an open mind until the next FEC report. Shills don’t matter. Money does.
money raised for a state race isn’t reported to the FEC. It’s actually reported to your BFF Bernie.
It’s easy to get confused since Scott (PAC MAN) McInnis has his finger in so many pies.
I have too many candidates/races on the brain.
Of course I meant SOS, next report due in October.
Good catch.
I think McGinnis’s bartender is advising his “campaign.”
advising you on the spelling of McInnis?