Over the last few months I have developed a small readership at this blog. My visitors include fellow historians and history buffs, readers of The Way of Improvement Leads Home, students, colleagues, people of faith, political junkies, and my family and friends.
So needless to say I was completely surprised and overwhelmed to the response of my recent posts, “Does Sarah Palin Speak in Tongues” and “Maybe Sarah Palin Doesn’t Speak in Tongues Anymore…Maybe.” “The Way of Improvement Leads Home” blog has received hundreds and hundreds of hits during the past few days and many of those new visitors have taken the time to stay awhile and look around.
I welcome all of my new readers and hope you will come back and visit again soon. (Some of you already have–thanks!). I also offer a gentle reminder to keep the conversation taking place in the “comments” both civil and respectful.
Since my own blog is mostly dead I’ll borrow your comment box to spout off a bit. What struck me on seeing the announcement of Sarah Palin as VP is that the Republicans tried this once already with Obama. In the 2004 Illinois Senate race, when Jim Ryan’s sexual exhibitionism became public, the Illinois Republican party desperately tried to split the black vote by renting Alan Keyes an apartment and sticking him on the ticket. Granted Palin is nowhere near as wacky as Keyes, but does the national Republican party really think they can split the women’s vote and draw Hillary supporters? Or is talk of “18 million cracks” just a subterfuge for a pick designed solely to appeal to the conservative Republican base?
Russ:Feel free to spout off anytime. I should also add that I tend to agree with you on this.What happened to your blog? One day I went to check it and it was gone!
After a long period of neglect I decided to shut it down – there are too many outdated blogs floating around the internet as it is. I’ve thought about starting one more strictly focused on Christian higher education sometime in the future.
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