Election Prediction

An explosion of conservative blogs and right of center online commentary if the Democrats take the House and/or Senate.

The Fray being a microcosm of the internet, and taking note of the long lament at the departures of quality conservatives from the fray, my theory goes they opted out of the debate because they found defending Bush and the Republican controlled Congress increasingly distasteful, and ultimately untenable. Mind you, quality conservatives are ones with principals. But if Congress goes to the Democrats in a substantive way, this will provide those quality conservatives an early opportunity at offense. They’ll return, not to defend Bush, but to attack Democrats. But don’t lament. The first casualty of this influx of quality conservatives won’t be liberalism. The first casualty will be the sad state of online debate, and with it the popularity of the wingnuts the liberal bloggers have had to engage in the absence of a rational conservative voice.