You guys keep blaming Republicans, like Bush, Mccain, ... for not being conservative enough.
I have a different take. It’s the media. The media is extremely clever at shaping public opinion.
Look at what they did to Jim Bunning. Bunning was absolutely correct in his stand. But the media portrayed it as an attack on the unemployed. And the media’s attack stood.
Bush cut taxes. But the media portrayed it as “tax cuts for the rich.”
Bush removed a horrible dictator and his evil sons, but the media portrayed it as Blood for Oil.
The media has created the image of conservatism as heartless, uncaring, for the rich only.
It takes superhuman strength of character and media savvy to overcome these media portrayals.
Our enemy is NOT conservatives, even if they are not as 100% conservative as we would prefer.
Our enemy is the media. Things are turning though: with Fox news, FRee Republic, Conservative talk radio, countless blogs and web sites for purveying the truth, we are starting to get the real message out.
But when we attack our own, we only harm ourselves. The media is the enemy - we should never forget that.
You aren’t wrong. The media is the vanguard of the liberal establishment. But that doesn’t make Bush any less dreadful. Two straight Democrat landslides can be laid at his feet.