In remarks posted Monday, TomDelay.com says not all good ideas come from Washington.
DeLay says he's created his blog "to provide Americans with a new meeting place where [fresh] opinions and viewpoints might be better shared, discussed, and debated; a place where conservative Americans might really speak truth to power and to one another."
He credits the Red State blog for giving him the opportunity to post some of his observations following the November election.
"This experience brought me to the immediate realization that I needed to become more directly involved in the blogosphere. Tomdelay.com is the product of our latest effort to find new ways to connect, unite and organize conservatives from all over America into a real grassroots political force," DeLay said.
In an appearance on Fox Friends Monday morning, DeLay said he hopes to "beef up the conservative movement" through his blog.
"We've got to compete in the blogosphere as well as in movies and documentaries and everything to get our message out to the American people," he said, an apparent reference to Michael Moore and other anti-Bush activists who have produced films with a liberal tilt.
The blog invites conservatives to become "elite activists" by joining DeLay's network; it also allows conservatives to book DeLay for an event; email him questions and even submit "guest blogs" to the website.
DeLay, the former House majority leader, was a lightning rod for Democratic criticism, but he is well-liked by many conservatives who credit him with sincerely trying to enact their agenda.
In his farewell address to Congress on June 8, Delay said, "If conservatives don't stand up to liberalism, no one will." He added that complaints about the recent rise in political partisanship are "nothing more than a veiled complaint instead about the rise of political conservatism."
Said DeLay in that farewell speech, "You show me a nation without partisanship, and I'll show you a tyranny. For all its faults, it is partisanship, based on core principles, that clarifies our debates, that prevents one party from straying too far from the mainstream, and that constantly refreshes our politics with new ideas and new leaders."
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