Liberals look to recapture White House (NOT BLOODY LIKELY ALERT)

While most editors, producers and journalists at serious newspapers and the big networks are liberal Democrats, they feel obliged to demonstrate their neutrality by giving equal time to conservative opinions...

This entire article is so replete with inaccuracies and illogical statements that it is no wonder that Mr. Lind switched from being a "conservative" to a "liberal." Being able to B/S on subjects that they are not qualified to comment on seems to be one of the left's defining characteristics.

A couple of years ago I was at the health club, on the tread mill, watching one of the early morning network shows. It may have been Good Morning America, I really don't know, nor do I care. The topic had something to do with the Republican party and after presenting the left's side of the topic, the co-hosts trotted out a political analyst to explain the Republican position. You can imagine my surprise when none other than George Stephanopoulos was introduced as just such a person.

Mr. Lind is right about both sides being presented on network news. The problem is, who is speaking for and defining the conservative side of the issue.

It was worth a smile too! Will the RATLIBS ever dig themselves out of the hole, is the question?

Answer: Not as long as we have the Klintons, Pelosis, Murrays, the Congressional Black Caucus, Carvile, Moore, the Hollyweirds, Jessie, the RINOS and the whole DNC, plus the liberal media et al, to help dig their hole even deeper. May it be so!

The Republican party today, , is a streamlined, authoritarian organisation dominated by its right wing.

I suppose Lind might make himself sound important to his relatively uninformed readers in the UK, but Americans will laugh at his Stalinist fantasy of the GOP conducting "purges" of liberal and moderate members. To the contrary, this last election was characterized by greater involvement on W's part than any other president in recent memory, and that involvement was largely on behalf of moderate Republicans such as Norm Coleman, Elizabeth Dole and even his own brother. "Streamlined, authoritarian?" The GOP is much more of a grassroots organization than the Democrats. This is reflected in the fact that the donor base of the GOP is much broader, with many more smaller individual donors than the Dems. They are the party of the elites, of the ideological purity tests that have prohibited pro-life speakers from their conventions and force virtualy all their candidates to embrace their radical agenda.

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