Please see my Post 116
By the way, this is the media Modus Operandi to defeat Republicans:
- create enough negative spin over a person and event or issue
- force the Republicans to respond to their questions/claims
Either the Republican is shown to be a 'mindless robot' for defending something the media attacks, *or* their quote is used as grist for the usual...
"even Republicans are now questioning (item XYZ) ..."
The latest example is the media firestorm over the pre-war intelligence, an issue that have been digested and re-digested ad infinitum. The media latest trick is to take biased polls to concocte the 'Bush is unpopular' story, then feed that into a spin cycle to get Republicans to peel off their support.
The best defense to this is a good offense.
Somehow, the Democrats are defining the debate. We are talking about a pointless 3-year-old argument about the pre-war intelligence rather than the more important question "What do we do now in Iraq?"
We need to be shaping the questions and the debate.