conservatives are more active on twitter?

hardly. OfA — and legions acting at its direction — kicked the behinds of the entire right of center in 2012.

we can’t be complacent about this.

A vote on a budget on the other hand….not so much demand there.

liberal lying losers

Whoring is not ass kicking.

I had that immediate reaction too. Then I re-read the post and decided he meant “more active than in the past.” Not more active than the Left.

How could we be? We have jobs. (Not government jobs.)

That’s a meme which is not well supported by the overall outcome. It only gets support when discussions of the GOTV software Romney’s team used are under way. However, those GOTV discussions rely overmuch on the notion of “precinct captains” who supposedly exist in all precincts (which they patently do not), and who have this mystical power of making sure all eligible voters in their precincts get off their duffs and come to the polling place to vote (which again, they do not). Wherever these masterminds of the polling place may be, they certainly don’t exist in high enough numbers to throw a national election one way or the other.

This mythos surrounding “social media” is largely the sort of cloud-minded thinking that goes on among reporters and non-tech-savvy volunteers. No one ever seems to stop and ask how anyone seems to know that social media really is different from good, old-fashioned “communication.” Or if it really is changing anyone’s minds.

About the only “new” aspect of social media that was not there in the days of email, or letter-writing campaigns, or word-of-mouth, is that one can garner statistics about trends much faster. But there was no magic “tweet” from team Obama that got another hundred-thousand voters to show up, nor was there a FaceBook/Twitter connection that caused long-lines to occur.

The tried and true notion of running a great campaign, by the right man (or woman) for the job, coupled with using all the tools one can, just to cover all the bases, and in the process avoiding any disastrous gaffes, is still the way to win an election. If reporters want to stay bamboozled by buzzwords like “social media,” I say let them.

Your interpretation is interesting. But I think it’s not factually correct either; conservative activism online seems way down since November.

Conservatives entered a deep post-election funk, and sat on the sidelines as Boehner and McConnell gave away the candy store, so to speak.

On the 2nd Amendment, I see real passion. But so far, nothing has shocked the patient back to sinus rhythm.

#WeDemandAVote on a budget! Its been nearly 4 years.

BADDA BING BADDA BOOM!

Two paws up!

You have a point that the role of social media was exagerated. But Obama was hardly the right man for the job, and he didn’t have that great of a message either. He won because:
1. A partisan MSM hid Obamas gaffes and magnified Romneys.
2. Obama had a huge turnout machine, with lots of local volunteers, combined with some vote fraud, essentially similar to old time big city mayors. They turned out otherwise apathetic and uninformed voters in large numbers.
3. Many of the libertarian Paulist voters decided to sit it out rather than voting for Romney.

I am a libertarian conservative myself and agree with you. As a libertarian, either voting for Gary Johnson, or voting for Romney, is reasonable, but either staying home, or voting for Obama is not.