CLUELESS GOP/LIEBERMAN CAMP MISSING THE BOAT ON THE IMPORTANCE OF THE INTERNET-- BUT ATTACKS MARKOS

Today I was reading how Lieberman's DINO and dinosauric campaign doesn't have any web presense-- and how his incompetent crony, the slimy Gerstein thing, can't get it together. That was particularly funny for me because earlier my friend Dave sent me a paper from the Center For Media Research talking about the growth of the Internet as an important factor in American politics.

While Lieberman sits around like a petulant child mumbling nonsense about bloggers hurting his computer and his soulmate Ted Stevens contemplates his future career as a rap star or comedian specializing in lines about tubes, we learn that 40% of voters in nearly 100 markets describe themselves as "heavy users of the Internet."

Among that 40% who describe themselves as heavy Internet users, the research shows that about 65% voted in 2005 (a staggeringly high number in an off-cycle year). Heavy Internet use (7 hours a week or more) in this group jumped from 37.4% to 39.9% between 2004 and 2005-- that's an increase of 4 million voters. The partisan breakdown is 34.7% Democrats, 31.8% Republicans and 28.5 independents.

Bob Jordan, president of International Demographics, explained that "...the Internet is a very serious factor in American politics. The Internet doesn't just provide marketers' access to voters; it also provides voters' access to marketers, other voters and data." The GOP doesn't take it all that seriously-- except as a way to slander their opponents and help steal elections. Today the silly closet queen Ken Mehlman, the head of the RNC launched a savage and laughable attack on Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, the founder of Daily Kos and co-author of the revolutionary and inspiring book, Crashing the Gate, on his Reactionary Nut Case website. If you need a good belly laugh today, take a look at how one of the Bush Regime's biggest shots spends his energy. No wonder we are in such bad shape whenever they get involved with anything.