Thanks for the posting and heads up. This thread is a good preview to what most likely comes up on the talk shows.
This week, I disagree to a little extent. All the old media folks are learning it’s too soon, especially since President Bush keeps escaping their carefully laid traps and plans, to go on too much of an attack. Add in the fiasco with Cynthia McKinney last week and Patrick Kennedy this week, and the Democrats need to regroup, along with the press.
Nancy Pelosi will continue insisting Republicans are the party of corruption in the face of Jefferson being indicted, and all the other revelations of corrupt Democrats. She gets the DNC memo’s but there’s real concern she reads it and does not understand the words. The greatest aspect of Pelosi is she really does project the very worst persona of what Democrat leadership would look like. She is one of the few who is corrupt, and nobody has explained it to her, so she is unaware of it.
I think the rehabilitation of John McCain is a red herring. CBS has no desire to do that, he’s simply filler for this weekend as CBS continues to put together their case against Republicans in favor of Democrats. If anything, CBS is gathering sound bites to use against other Republicans in the future. McCain wants on because he realizes his standing is tanking and he wants to shore it up if he can.
Immigration will still be talked about, although it will be used to damn both parties for not being sympathetic enough. GOP worse than Democrats, but both to blame. Still, with the Patrick Kennedy problem, I’m not sure anyone will talk about Teddy’s bill on immigration. It would be too easy of a lead-in to talk about Patrick.
ABC will continue using partial comments from both George Will and John Kasich to further disparage Republicans. Howard Dean will be asked about his comments this past week on immigrants with the suggestion that Democrats dictate the agenda for that issue now.
The theory goes that the media really doesn't like Hillary all that much and they may have figured out that she stalls above 45%. Since the msm are all "poll whores" anyway they may have figured out that if they can get McCain in, he wins. It's the half a loaf theory.
To get him in they have to ironically go after him so we will come to his rescue, curious but feasible.