Attack Of The Political Attack Websites

No, we’re not talking about weblogs (although they do qualify at times). We’re talking about a website that pops up and makes a statement about a candidate. Sometime it can be an intelligent one.

But sometimes a website is so off the wall that it’s out of the house. Read Ed Morrissey HERE who not only writes about one but he did some Internet investigative reporting.

You have to ask yourself: just who does someone expect they will CONVINCE with a website like that? It’s not just preaching to the choir, but to a small segment of the choir, since people may like or dislike Fred Thompson (a factor that you can place money on increasing once he actually announces and goes from being a political blank slate to a drawing board that his Republican and Democratic foes write on). But a can of Chef Boyardee Ravioli on a shelf a Publix supermarket would see the site, shake its head and proclaim: “Lame. What a meatball!”

It’s basically a “lash out site” — someone expressing anger and in effect name calling. It’s ugly no matter who does it and what party they claim to try to elect. But often it boomerangs and often creates sympathy for the targets of the invective.

NOTE that when the site got attention, apparently from Morrissey’s post and actual reporting, that it was essentially yanked. It vanished, like an insect crawling back under a rock.

Read his updates.