Calling All Wingnuts

Well, CAW’s one year anniversary just passed.

It’s been a helluva year.

• Oliver North’s “Freedom Alliance” ROTC trainees caught doing something kinda sick…
• (video) More Gestapo tactics from Hannity’s “Freedom Concert”
• Rush Limbaugh answers a question about viagra
• Busting Hannity for his shameless hypocrisy
• Ann Coulter has a beard (no, seriously…)
• I chat with Newt Gingrich - and ask him about bringing divorce papers to the hospital for his wife to sign as she’s being treated for cancer
• (another video) Meet Mike Stark
• I ask a Fox News host to take off his make up, leave his four hundred dollar haircuts behind, and join the war effort he supports so much…
• Tom Tancredoand I talk a little bit about immigration and being honest with his constituents…
• Was Rush Limbaugh a sex tourist?
• Saddam O’Reilly
• Hannity and I chat about your favorite blogger (not me)
• Byron York, chickenshit
• Just a run-of-the-mill Rush Limbaugh beatdown
• Witness the self-immolation of Rush Limbaugh
• Another coward threatens to sue me
• “Alice” pounds Rush into the dirt
• Hannity gets crushed
• More ridiculous Hannity
• Magnificent Abortion Wingnuttery
• Rascism from Tony Snow
• Pounding another rascist
• Rush, me and Social Security… he loses…
• The first time Bill O’Reilly punched himself in the head
• Bill’s follow-thru
• Andrew Wilkow and more abortion wingnuttery
• O’Reilly, Cheney, kittens and woodchippers
• Lieberman Hannity Lovefest

And all of that came before the George Allen follies and the latest dust-up with KSFO/Disney…

So… what will the next year bring?

Well, it’s not an election year, but the Presidential competition will heat up quickly. I’m guessing that a Republican candidate will become the clear nominee even before caucus/primary season. They have a tendency towards group-think and lock-step in that way. The democratic contest will be up in the air for a long time. And can change at the drop of a hat - especially if Al Gore picks his giant self up off the backbench…

So I’ll certainly be a part of that excitement.

Other than that, however, I’m a law student. I am not a seer or fortune-teller. If you look at the pattern of what I’ve done so far, it becomes clear that my activism is nothing if not opportunistic.

So I can’t really say what I’ve got in store for you in 2007. All I can tell you is that I’ll keep up the fight.

(You can sense what’s coming, can’t you?)

Ugh.

I have to do it again.

Looking back over the last year, I think I can safely say that I’ve spent well over a thousand hours on this labor of love. The results, such as they are, speak for themselves - we’ve got a Democratic Congress, talk radio is on the run and politicians everywhere are on their toes because they’ve seen what’s happened as a result of netroots activism. Let me be clear - I’m not claiming credit for all of the aforementioned - there were pioneers before me, there are voices louder than mine and the real credit belongs to the thousands of people that talked to thier neighbors, hung a lawn sign, canvassed neighborhoods and donated cash and sweat to their candidates of choice.

That said, I know my commitment has been intense. I’ve so far not profited one red cent - to the contrary, I’ve spent more money fighting the good fight than I have collected through any of my fundraising appeals. Y’all have been extraordinarily generous, but I’ve put your money to good use in taking up my various activist pursuits.

Anyway, my financial situation is about to change. Put simply, my wife is pregnant with out second, she’s going to have to take some time off work (so we’ll miss her paycheck) and as a student, my income is student loans. Unfortunately, these loans aren’t enough to cover day care, let alone our mortgage and the rest of our living expenses. In that situation, the first casualty,at least to a degree, is going to have to be my activism - I just won’t be able to pay for as much unless something gives.

Well… that’s the point of this. Do you see that little PayPal thingy over on the right? Please consider clicking a few dollars my way… My website host hasn’t been paid in months (and I just asked him to build DisneyHatesYou.com for me) and, well, as I approach the time at which I’ll be facing the loss of my wife’s income… ugh. Just know that everything y’all do for me is mucho-appreciated.

Finally - if anyone has any idea how I could flush out a permanent sponsor or benefactor - if any of you move in fundraising circles and think that what I’m doing is important and “fundable,” please shoot me an email through the contact form at the top of the page.

Always faithful,
Mike