I am a Redstate subscriber, although I have never posted there.  I get your occasional email, which lend joy to my humdrum and workaday existence.

Here's an example of why:

Dear RedState Reader:

I have, as they say, some good news and some bad news.

Hmmmm..... they are polite, one of those conservative values.

(Short version:  We need you to open your wallet and give what you can to build RedState 3.0.  Go here to help.  We need the money ASAP.)

The good news first: RedState.com is about to embark on a major upgrade of our website that will make it easier, more informative, and just plain more fun for you to visit.

The bad news: our liberal "friends" - you know, the ones who believe so strongly in free speech and open debate - have done what they can to prevent us from making these improvements, so that our influence will be minimized just as we head into the 2008 presidential primary season.

OH MY GOD!!! We are powerful, beyond our wildest dreams....

No, our Blue State buddies haven't succeeded in stopping us from improving our website. But they've made it more difficult and more expensive - which is why I'm coming to you for help.

Ah, shoot....

You see, when we started RedState in May of 2004, we used a website program called Scoop -- the same program a lot of similar sites on the left used. But, as the number of visitors to our site grew, Scoop kept crashing on us.

No doubt a liberal conspiracy....

If we'd been a liberal website, we would have been able to fix the problem quickly and relatively cheaply.  The online left loves Scoop. Unfortunately, there weren't really any conservative Scoop developers out there to help us.  We kept crashing and were out of money.  We had to close down or take drastic action.

Wow.  Simply WOW.  WOW !!!! DOUBLE-SCOOP WOW.

They are admitting that they are too stupid to run their own site.  I've always believed that conservatives are too stupid to go potty without making a mess, but never expected them to admit this AND beg for money at the same time.

"Open-source" means that you need to be clever, resourceful and figger it out for yourself.  That's what LaTeX is, and anyone who uses that writes various programs to do stuff with it.

The right-wing is too stupid to maintain their own site without leftist code monkeys.

I hope that you find this as hysterically amazing as do I.

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