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Originally Posted by KevinG

It isn't a conservative blog, first of all. I'm a libertarian.

Then let me start this post by saying that I'm a libertarian who frequently ends up voting conservatively because it's the most liberterian option. See my post on Massacusetts law in the Real Estate thread, and my Vote No post in the 'do you vote' thread for my political views.

Originally Posted by Ludlow

Here's just a bit of feedback after visiting your blog. I'm a euro-liberal, so I'm confident that everything on your blog is completely wrong...

However, being open-minded and tolerant like all good liberals, I actually *would* read a positive, informed blog from a right-wing perspective.

As you rightly imply above, in setting up a right-wing blog you're joining an extraordinary madhouse of ranting fools, and if you are secure in the belief that this doesn't describe you, I think you should emphasize that. A lot. At the moment I would say your posts so far have the unconstructive negative TONE of some of those ranting fools, even though your CONTENT is much more substantive.

Originally Posted by KevinG

Second, saying that conservative blogs are "madhouses of ranting fools" is an opinion that will probably cause you to lose all credibility.

It's tough dealing with Europe because they are biased against the U.S. in the fact that they want the U.S. less powerful. So anything that happens that is bad for the U.S. is usually good for Europe. That is why you align yourself with liberals because they are bad for the U.S. Though you probably deny this entirely, which is expected.

That being said, for some reason, your post sounded significantly more rant-y than Ludlow's did. That may be simply that Ludlow's emoticon led me to believe that he was trying to be friendly and cheerful - that he does believe that everything you believe is wrong, but he's willing to to acknowledge that people have varying opinions, especially in the US and Europe right now, and that doesn't mean that his opinion is necessarily more valid than yours, just that it's different. I may be completely off in interpreting what his smile meant, and in fact he's a raving lunatic, smiling to throw me off the scent of his plot to bring down the US government and erase its existance from the memory of all humanity.

Likewise, it may be that lack of emoticons in your post caused me to utterly misinterpret your tone. That you didn't actually mean to imply that every single European is so scarcity-minded and jealous that they want to see the US come down. (Having been in Ukraine last summer, I can tell you it isn't so.) Nor did you mean to imply that it is impossible to be a US voting liberal unless you are (a) an idiot or (b) a traitor. The tone I somehow picked up that 'everything you believe is unquestionably correct, and anyone who disagrees with you must be a moron' bears no resemblance to what you wanted to say, and is a totally unfair portrayal of your feelings and opinions.

Unfortunately, I'm not able to identify what made me pick up that tone. That's why I'm such a horrible writer - I never managed to learn how to combine words to make them actually say what I meant. So I can't give any actual advice, except to say that it sounded unconstructive and negative to me also.