Is Your MP Blogger Deaf?

This is serious, and it has been bothering me for awhile. Do bloggers help or hurt their MP's?

If I have an opinion, and I express it on my blog, does that potentially reflect on my MP? Should my MP care? Do your MP's even know if you have a blog and comment on their performance? I know one Liberal MP, Paul Szabo, is aware of blogs, because he kindly corrected me on an issue.

Garth Turner is a good example of a disruptive influence. I think he hurt himself more than anyone else, but I think he had the right to express his opinion on his blog. I remember reading the blogs of Monty and his apartment mate, Chuck Strahl, they were funny and refreshing. The minute they became the government, they were shut down. I wonder if that is why Monty left politics? Tow the party line or get out.

What can a MP do if a blogger targets them? Dare they complain to the CHRC? Wouldn't that be a hoot, a MP claiming "hurt feelings" because of a blogger.

Do our MP's even understand the power of blogs? When is the last time you heard from your MP? Did you get a newsletter? Did you read it, or toss it into the junk pile? I suspect the junk pile, unread, but even lefties come here, and read my blog. Bloggers are potentially more capable of shaping your opinions than your MP. We reach more people in a day than they can ever possibly hope to reach. Too bad many MP's are blind to the power of bloggers, they could use them to increase their exposure in their ridings.

Let me give you an example.



I record question period and then produce videos. Granted, my videos are always slanted towards the Conservatives because that is the party I support, but I could just as easily turn it around and only present a negative image of the Conservatives. Do our MP's care or do they even know what a blog is?

Does your MP have a website, or blog? Is it current? If you want to know what stimulus spending your riding is getting, can you go to your MP's site and find out? Can you find out where they will be if you want to meet them? Do you care?

Next election, whenever that might be, bloggers will play a huge role in getting the message out. I can reach way more supporters with one blog than they can by door knocking 100 doors. If your MP is blogger deaf, they are missing out on a great opportunity to get their supporters out to functions.

So, check up on your MP, find out if they have a current website, and find out if they are blogger friendly or not, sadly mine isn't. Is your MP blogger deaf too?

To The Unsung Commenter's!

I was thinking this weekend about what makes a blog successful. I know I've sometimes questioned why I keep at it, especially on the days when I work late, and only sit down at the computer around ten or eleven at night.

What makes a blog successful, is the people who take the time to comment on posts. Those comments are an indication of whether your post has hit a nerve or not.

Here's an example:

Alberta Girl said...
"What I enjoy most, is that often I am at work and can not comment, and then someone like Alberta Girl, Frmgrl or you, will come in and totally destroy some lefty poster/stalker who has left a comment that is way out of line."

Thanks! And it is my pleasure to take those lefties to task.... (I love that)

This is truly the final straw for me. In the past two years, how many times has the Conservative government done something truly great only to have it ignored by an MSM bent on being the mouthpiece for the latest liberal pseudo scandal.

The only good thing - there have been soooo many "scandals" that have blown up in the Liberals and the MSM's faces, that Canadians are actually starting to ignore them.

Think of all the polls that get put out hoping against hope that they will swing against the Tories and then they quickly disappear when they go horribly wrong.

It is time to keep notes, save comments, headlines, video and such for use whenever the Liberals and their MSM cohorts try to use a "found" document or video, or paper, or dead MP, or jailed woman, or former prime minister or.....

I know that I will be not only noting the bias, but I will be saving it on my computer.

This is a perfect example of people having the power to make changes. It's not the newspapers anymore, it's the everyday Canadian, finding their voice on blogs, on comments, on Facebook. Often, the comments become a blog, within the blog.

The commenter's gain a voice, their point of view gains power. THANK YOU, to all the unsung commenter's, who make the difference on a blog. Sometimes life intrudes and I can't comment, but it doesn't mean I don't appreciate your contributions and opinions. (That does not include my lefty stalker or people who insist on swearing).