Red America - a New Conservative Blog

The Washington Post has started a new conservative blog - Red America, written by Ben Domenech, formerly of RedState.org. Here's how the new blog begins:

This is a blog for the majority of Americans.

Since the election of 1992, the extreme political left has fought a losing battle. Their views on the economy, marriage, abortion, guns, the death penalty, health care, welfare, taxes, and a dozen other major domestic policy issues have been exposed as unpopular, unmarketable and unquestioned losers at the ballot box.

Democrats who have won major elections since 1992 have, with very few exceptions, been the ones who distanced themselves from the shrieking denizens of their increasingly extreme base, soft-pedaled their positions on divisive issues and adopted the rhetoric and positions of the right -- pro-free market, pro-business, pro-faith, tough on crime and strongly in favor of family values.

Yet even in a climate where Republicans hold command of every branch of government, and advocate views shared by a majority of voters, the mainstream media continues to treat red state Americans as pachyderms in the mist - an alien and off-kilter group of suburbanite churchgoers about which little is known, and whose natural habitat is a discomforting place for even the most hardened reporter from the New York Times.

Now that's a good start. His presence in the blogosphere is already causing major spasms on the left. Editor and Publisher even did a piece on it, including many negative reactions from the peanut gallery.

Good luck, Ben, we're with you! You'll find the link to the new blog in this post, and it's now included in the "Holy Roll" on the righthand sidebar.

UPDATE: Ben resigned after allegations of plagiarism surfaced. Too bad.