There's a new web log called Peter King Watch, which is aimed at following the moves and comments of Rep. Peter King, the Long Island Republican and chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee.

Here, the blog mocks King's assessment of the Republican party's strength in Nassau County - once, without question, the strongest GOP organization in America. Now, the county executive is a Democrat, the county Legislature is run by Democrats and the district attorney-elect is a Democrat.

There are many reasons the Republicans lost Nassau County, and have lost both U.S. Senate seats from New York. But one reason that is hard to understand is the state Republicans' utter cluelessness when it comes to the web.

Democrats in the county - and throughout the state - seem to understand blogging and web dynamics, Republicans in New York apparently don't.

Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi, a potential Democratic candidate for Governor next year had a blog during the last campaign season. Eliot Spitzer, a Democrat who is running for governor, has a blog. Hillary Clinton doesn't have a blog, but she has a fairly interactive web site.

Republicans?

Jeanine Pirro, who is running for Senate: No blog, no interactivity on her site.

William Weld, who is running for governor: Where's his web site?

Thomas Golisano may be running for the Republican nomination for governor. He's got a nice billboard of a web site, but no interactivity.

It seems New York Republicans slept through the entire 2004 election season. If they were even half-awake, they would have noticed President Bush's campaign web site, with a blog, with rapid response capability, with "TV ads."

Imagine, for example, if Pirro could put together a 30-second video that picked through any noteworthy videotape of Clinton, and posted it on her web site? The viral nature of Internet video, as everyone learned last year, was extremely disruptive. And yet, the Republicans in New York offer nothing of the kind. Despite her inability to raise funds, it would cost almost nothing for Pirro to blog, vlog or podcast.

There is still time for the Republicans to change their technology gap with Democrats in New York. But time isn't as endless as bandwidth.

MORE: The Coffeehouse Soapbox is commenting on news that Gov. George Pataki's folks are asking Pirro to drop out of her bid for U.S. Senate. His remarks are fairly excoriating toward the state GOP.