Ricochet Website attempts to brand itself as right-wing Facebook, a "conservative cocktail party"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

If conservative ideas are dead, as many liberals claim, nobody seems to have told conservatives. Right-wingers believe their ideas are alive and fit for implementation. All that is needed, perhaps, is new personalities and institutions able to market conservatism in the post-Bush era. At least, that is the thinking behind Ricochet, a new online effort that launches in the next few weeks and aims to advance the right-wing conversation in the age of Obama.

The distinguishing feature of Ricochet will be its unique format, which promises to look unlike any other site on the net. "It will not be a news aggregator, or a megachat like Daily Kos, but instead will be a feed like Facebook or Twitter or Tumbler," says James Poulos, Ricochet's managing editor. Approximately 40 contributors will have an online conversation that is akin to a conservative cocktail party.

Ricochet is the brainchild of two established conservatives, former Reagan speechwriter Peter Robinson and Hollywood producer-pundit Rob Long. "Rob and I felt there was plenty of space in the online world for a center-right website with a sense of fun, of talking back and forth among conservatives," says Robinson. The left outweighs the right-wing in cyberspace, he says, even with everything from The Weekly Standard to 'Townhall.com' populating the web.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37189215/ns/politics/

[geardaddy]

1. Ricochet, huh?

That's because they can't shoot straight.

[RockaFowler]

2. Isn't Facebook Right-Wing Enough??

My God those Right-Wingers have taken over Facebook. And they are so up-front about their hatred.

[Rex]

3. Wow, now all 152 people can sign up and write crazy shit about Obama!

I'm surprised anyone would want to be a conservative these days.

[gratuitous]

4. Goody, a conservative cocktail party

A heady mix of lightweights and mean drunks, all getting wasted and barfing on each others' shoes. Who could resist?

[WCGreen]

5. Their ideas aren't dead, just very very very stale.

[Wickerman]

6. That's fine

now those five assholes from my high school who 'friended me can all go over to Boomerrang or whatever and stop posting Conserva-babble on my wall.

[Forkboy]

7. Ricochet!

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