It seems the 2009 McDonnell/Bolling team has and will have things in its favor for many months while the dems will be battling it out to come up with their candidates/message, perhaps is some way analogous to how McCain was settled on long before Obama; yet McCain squandered those months and never, for many reasons, was able to embrace and employ new media effectively to communicate a unified message and/or motivate grassroots; hopefully your criticisms are not prophetic is some way and the RPV can see the light and repent (turn around) before its too late. Unrelated and perhaps despite their relations with new media and how effectively new media serves their goals though, the 2009 GOP ticket is something to be excited about. I’m not confident in the RPV leadership vis a vis new media in particular, but I am confident in the candidates to influence and overcome.

We can all agree on one thing GO MCDONNELL

This will be an interesting issue to watch. As painful as it may be. I would invite people to look at Raising Kaine archives and see their very frayed relationship with the Democratic Party Infrastructure.

I agree with the conclusion. RPV cannot run the blogs as a top-down model. The lesson is to be learned from the obama campaign. Provide the tools and ISSUE PAPERS (Shout out to Norm what do we stand for again?) and let the grassroots self-organize and run things. It should be crystal clear by now that what works in Southside is different than HR is different than the Valley is different than NoVa.