Make no mistake, it's a good month to be a liberal: we won a big election, and our boy's about to kick George out. But close your eyes for a second. Remember back to October 2008. It looked like Obama would win, but GOD, Sarah Palin is infuriating, McCain's dragging his name through the mud, and we're watching the polls literally every ten minutes. It's a stressful time, and you know what makes it worse? Fake liberals like PUMA whining about how Obama stole the primaries from Hillary. For God's sake, people, grow up and move on with your lives!
Well, bad news everyone. The 2008 Weblog Awards made the mistake of nominating PUMA-blog "The Confluence" as one of the "best liberal blogs of 2008."
Critically, neither Confluence nor PUMA-dom are liberal - they're Obama conspiracy theory agglomerates, nothing more - and we suspect Weblog Award administrator/conservative blogger Kevin Aylward knows as much, and is just trying to yank the liberal blogosphere's chain. Well, it's not funny. Confluence must not win the Best Liberal Blog Award.
How can we do this, you ask? It's going to be tough, make no mistake: because there are fourteen nominees and only "fake" liberal blog, Confluence can win just by splitting the legitimate liberal vote between the remaining thirteen legitimate blogs. The best way to fight the vote-fracturing potential is for all of us here to settle on one blog to vote for: I recommend Crooks and Liars. So, first things first: when polls open tonight at midnight,
VOTE FOR "CROOKS & LIARS" AT THE WEBLOG AWARDS SITE.
When the polls go live, be sure to get your vote in ASAP. Now, Confluence is likely to enlist the entire PUMA-sphere to take advantage of the vote fracturing effect, and propel them into first place. In a fair fight, they'd have a good shot at winning. We can't give them a fair fight. Most web voting software forbids multiple votes but bases its decision on whether or not to forbid your second vote based on a combination of (1) your IP address and (2) cookies in your browser. So, if you're tech-savvy, to maximize your ability to vote multiple times...
(1) Install TOR, an onlyine anonymity tool, and use it to cycle IP addresses to vote.
(2) If TOR doesn't allow you to vote once per IP, clear out your cookies between votes.
(3) If that doesn't work, use your iPhones, mobile networks, any publicly accessible IP addresses, and multiple devices to try to vote for C&L as much as possible.
We can kick Confluence out. May God have mercy on our souls.