Free Republic
Browse · Search
Bloggers & Personal
Topics · Post Article

To: freedomwarrior998
People win in primaries that can NEVER win in a general election.

Or so we've been told. Then there's guys like Reagan, Obama, Scott Brown, and even idiot Al Franken that prove the assertion wrong. Independents vote on their perception of likability and conviction, not their perception of moderation. How have hard core leftist Dems gotten elected to the Senate from North and South Dakota, that both lean right? By running for office and winning primaries in states that weren't supposed to elect people like them.

The media can try all they want to marginalize O'Donnell. It won't do them any good. Nobody this year is going to base their vote on stories about her taxes or something she apparently said long ago. She may not win. But if she doesn't, it won't be because Katie Couric didn't want her to.

We need to do something about the media.

You mean things like talk radio, the internet, and a certain cable news channel, that have rendered the "media" rather helpless to prevent the wave headed the Dem's way? Seems we already are doing something, no? Wanting to "do something" about others speaking their mind is a roll for liberals and statists, who's views can't stand scrutiny, not for people that respect liberty.

63 posted on 09/17/2010 11:34:45 AM PDT by Minn
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 44 | View Replies ]


To: Minn
You mean things like talk radio, the internet, and a certain cable news channel, that have rendered the "media" rather helpless to prevent the wave headed the Dem's way? Seems we already are doing something, no?

Didn't help in 2008, did it?

Wanting to "do something" about others speaking their mind is a roll for liberals and statists, who's views can't stand scrutiny, not for people that respect liberty.

Straw man. "Doing something" does not mean, "prohibiting" it can mean many things, such as the establishment of new networks, using the internet more effectively, working talk radio, or finding a way to counter the media talking points.

65 posted on 09/17/2010 11:37:29 AM PDT by freedomwarrior998
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 63 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Bloggers & Personal
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson