I was speaking with someone the other day that suggested that DL and FSP are simply opposite sides of the same coin. Where DL is reflexively “moonbat” liberal FSP is reflexively “wingnut” conservative.
While I guess I could see where they were coming from, I think there is a core differences between DL and FSP that this reductive analysis fails to capture.
Dave Burris is a Republican Operative. He is part of the Republican Party in a way that I am not a party of the Democratic Party. While part of the editorial mission of this blog is to support the Delaware Democratic Party – I don’t meet with the Democratic Party leadership and coordinate anything with them the way Dave does. So this blog is not a “Democratic Party Blog” the way FSP is an organ of the DE GOP.
To me that is a big difference. I think it gives us much more freedom and objectivity than FSP. We not only feel free to comment on Democrats who are not doing a good job, we feel an obligation to call them out. Meanwhile, at FSP, with the notable exception of John Atkins, Dave does not have the freedom to comment on or criticize any Republicans. Or, if he feels he has that freedom, he is not exercising it.
Take wind power for example. It is now abundantly clear that Charlie Copeland and Terry Spence (as well as some Dems) are acting under orders from Delmarva Power to scuttle the Blue Water deal. Dave was a big early supporter of wind power – but as the DE GOP leadership goes, so goes Dave and FSP.