Today’s must read is by Nathan Tabor writing for the Canada Free Press: Attack of the Bloggers. Excerpts:

Blogs represent the voice of the people–often against the most powerful elements in our society–so they do represent a kind of high-tech democracy in action. …

Still, I have to wonder, why do media commentators devote so much attention to radically left-wing blogs–especially when these blogs hardly represent the views of SUV-driving, church-going, baseball-loving moms and dads? …

The fact of the matter is that Democrats simply cannot control their left flank for very long–hence the ascendancy of the conservative movement. No matter how much the Democratic Party chieftains claim that abortion is a tragic choice … no matter how much they talk about personal responsibility and getting able-bodied men and women off the public dole … their liberal colors eventually show.
This is why, despite claims that the Democrats are going to enjoy an electoral blow-out this fall, it would be wrong to count the party of Reagan out.

Update: Today’s other must read is a Front Page Magazine article that starts out with comments from Karl Rove in a recent interview in which he said that the internet has created a healthy dialogue on the right, helping to gain influence and broaden the appeal. However:

Among Democrats, my sense is that the blog world has tended to strengthen the far Left of the Democratic Party at the expense of liberal, but somewhat less liberal, members of their party. It has tended to sort of drive their party even further to the Left rather than focusing on good ideas that would help unite people around common goals and common purposes. Instead, the Internet for the Left of the Democratic Party has served as a way to mobilize hate and anger — hate and anger, first and foremost, at this President and conservatives, but then also at people within their own party whom they consider to be less than completely loyal to this very narrow, very out-of-the-mainstream, very far Left-wing ideology that they tend to represent.

As you can imagine, this stirred things up a bit on the lefty blogs and FrontPage doles out some of the best of the best. A sample:

I hate Rove as much as I hate Bush and all republicans, and I hate the fact that Rove said we are filled with hate. That is sooo hateful!! I wonder how far we can get riding this emotion called hate?

Read it all to bring a smile to your face.