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To: Darkwolf377; DarthVader; Utmost Certainty; buccaneer81; expat1000
the MSM attacks on her worked—she is disliked by many of the center we’d need to get her in the White House
. . . and the "MSM" attacks on Herman Cain will not work?

The saying is that any prosecutor can "get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich." Well in case you haven't noticed, wire service journalism functions exactly as a prosecutor against any conservative politician. And in a race for POTUS against a Democrat, they treat a John McCain exactly like they treat a conservative.

Herman Cain is Sarah Palin - without the political experience and the "Governor" title. Black man, white woman, otherwise the same difference. Neither one can be attacked conventionally as "racist, anti woman." So they resort to vicious smear campaigns against both of them.

To withdraw support from Palin, or Cain, in the face of what I admit is a powerful political assault is to give up all hope of getting a conservative president. And, considering that a Romney nomination would take Obamacare off the table, to give up hope of nominating a conservative is to give up most of the ammunition against Obama and is just as risky as facing the open hostility of journalism head on.

We want someone who wants a free America for our nominee - not just some rich guy whose objective is to be president. Even Teddy Kennedy couldn't pull that off against an incumbent Democrat . . .

We are better off riding out the storm of negative publicity (and negative poll numbers running up to the election, as was the case in 1980) which wire service journalism can and will dish out with a Cain - or, yes, a Palin - than we are to back down from a fight with wire service journalism. If you are up against a great linebacker you can't run away from him, you have to run at him.


47 posted on 11/03/2011 11:53:25 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (DRAFT PALIN)
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion

Chill.

You’ve selected ONE point from a long post and gone off on a tangent. It doesn’t disprove anything.

If you seriously think the attacks on Cain are as savage and distorting as those on Palin, you’re not seeing reality. (For example: I don’t even know if Cain HAS any kids, whereas by the first week of her choice as VP I knew Palin’s entire history.)


48 posted on 11/04/2011 12:03:48 AM PDT by Darkwolf377 (Obama: The stupid person`s idea of a smart person.)
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion
. . . and the "MSM" attacks on Herman Cain will not work?

That's a good point.

For those who haven't already done so, get used to the idea of viewing the media as something like a state-controlled propaganda apparatus. In this perspective, the behavior of the media doesn't seem so outrageous—just par for the course.
50 posted on 11/04/2011 1:18:02 AM PDT by Utmost Certainty (Our Enemy, the State)
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