In American political parlance, a front porch campaign is one in which the candidate remains at home and makes speeches to supporters who come to visit but does not travel around or otherwise actively campaign.
I write this on the cautiously optimistic assumption that the members of the Boston Tea Party will select me as their 2008 vice-presidential nominee this coming Sunday.
If so, I suspect that my campaign will be, for the most part, "front porch" -- and that the porch in question will be a virtual Internet porch, namely this blog. I don't want all of you milling around in my front yard. My real front porch isn't big enough to harangue a crowd from anyway, and the little town I live in has more ordinances than it does people, many of which could, and probably would, be brought to bear on such gatherings (no word on whether my own proposed ordinance, which would change the city's name from "Greendale" to "Pyongyang-on-Mississippi," has been adopted yet).
I don't plan to stay home -- one nice thing about a virtual front porch is that it will pack comfortably into a laptop when I'm out on the hustings agitating for freedom -- and you don't have to pony up $4 per gallon to come see me, either. Just point your browser this way and BAM! ... here we are socializing on the steps with cold drinks and a lot to talk about.
So, that's that ... my "front porch campaign" really isn't, but let's just keep that between you and me and the fencepost. Yes, I have a virtual fencepost around here somewhere, too.
More later.
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