[goldstategop]

I've noticed all this talk about front-runners and second tier is based entirely on media created perceptions. I hasten to remind every one on this forum not a single actual vote has been cast yet. It would be a tragedy if good men were eliminated by Republicans from consideration based on a media classification of questionable worth.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Califreak]

Blah, blah, blah, Hunter can’t win, yadda, yadda, yadda.

Who cares? Ronald Reagan isn’t conservative enough for me!

Hunter has my vote, period, end of story.

[SierraWasp]

Man you said a mouthful of serious truth right then and there!!!

[upsdriver]

“I’ve noticed all this talk about front-runners and second tier is based entirely on media created perceptions”

Isn’t it amazing how so many conservatives(?) dutifully fall in line with the liberal media’s pronouncments? It’s time to say “screw you, media!” It’s time that clear thinking conservatives pick the best candidate of our choosing, not the media or the political insiders. It’s time to get behind the best conservative candidate we have had in ages, Duncan Hunter!!!!

It’s also time to tell all the naysayers, “Get the hell out of our way! You bug me!” :)

[WildcatClan]

I agree with your post 100% and I have been writing and saying as much for sometime now. Guess what? No one is listening. There are a plethora of complaints and observations about the left leaning MSM and everyone seems to get it. But then, they turn right around and let the MSM choose their candidates for them. And so it goes.........Polls, popularity, electability.

The media polls tell them who has a chance and who hasn’t. Then they are always more than content to ‘settle’ in the name of electability or pragmatism. I have noticed things that settle usually tend to settle to the bottom. So I suppose, no matter how much an affront it is to some candidates, talk of 1st, 2nd and 3rd tiers will continue to the point of its ultimate and predictable conclusion. Then the talk of tiers will end and we can get on with the real tears.

[familyop]

"I've noticed all this talk about front-runners and second tier is based entirely on media created perceptions. I hasten to remind every one on this forum not a single actual vote has been cast yet. It would be a tragedy if good men were eliminated by Republicans from consideration based on a media classification of questionable worth."

That was very well considered and written. If we can render analyses like yours down to very simple statements, they'll go far toward educating enough voters, goldstategop.