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They cannot break this cycle. The media is aligned against him in a way that has never been seen before in American history. Perhaps the only direct PR counter is to make the media coverage itself a campaign issue. But how is that effectively done?

It is easy to anticipate the spin: It will always be negative, and outrageously so.

I do not know what one can do about it. What would you do? Should they hold up in the White house and do nothing? His first Iraq speech, the five point speech was deep sixed within 48 hours. The rousing AF Academy speech met a similar fate. What can one do here?

If the American people cannot see what is happening here then what are we to do about it? True the GOP could be faulted as a whole for not pressing the media's bias upon the people, but given the level of invective, disinformation and the intensity of the attack, would even that get through.

In the end the American people are faced with an adult choice. The blame for the wrong decision must squarely rest on those that make it.

I have agreed pretty much with many of your assessments over the last few months, but I ask you: What can really be done about it? Are you sure that the response you crave will bring results come Nov. or with they just make you feel better?

I am quickly getting to the point of view that either the American people must see through this now or we must go through even greater tragedy and suffering to finally rid ourselves of the moral failure and vice this is our national addiction to a corrupt and venial media - which is really only an aspect of a larger corruption of a broader political establishment - and all of the degrading intellectual, moral and spiritual conditions that come with it. This "narcosis of the media" and its suppression of the sound discourse in the body political has been building for a very long time, building since FDR, in fact, and if the American people do not have the maturity to understand it then I am afraid there is little to be done about it. Truth will out.

In the end, we where wrong to concede the realm of media and "culture" to the Left, and this failure goes back to the 1930's. The "greatest Generation" indeed.

The fact that Liberal elites cannot side with the nation in a time of war shows not only corruption but deeply flawed thought. Things must run their course it would seem.

We must remember that this has been the case for most of our challenges in the post war period. Look at Korea and Vietnam. The Cold War victory was a close one. If Reagan had not come to power the USSR would most likely be with us.

We are at a point of cultural crisis as a nation. The old culture will fail. The question is whether or not we have the maturity to recognizes this and fashion as fresh one to face the new adversity or shall our failure to adjust bring us to our end as a power, as a nation?

I do not have the answer to that one. Do you?

They can have a communications strategy, but they don't. everyone must be on the same page, they need to get a consistent message and everyone needs to stick with it. You can't have Ashcroft announcing a terror alert and then Ridge comming out to backpedal on it. They need to assemble a list of Republicans to take the message to every talk show they can get on, and say the same thing. You can't have Lindsey Graham going out there like a puppy with Hillary holding his leash. They need a political war room - a bunch of people who sit in a room all day watching every TV station and radio - reacting to the news cycle movements right away. They must get rid of Scott McClellan, he sucks. They need to cultivate and expand the alternative media - Bush should be doing talk radio interviews twice a week, so should many other in the Administration.

Fire Karl Rove - hire Ed Rollins back, he knows what to do.