The war on the news will be televised just not on any channel anyone is watching ;)

Selling the Drama, Who’s Competing For Your Attention? Cable News War.

I added a link to Rob Bartlett’s Blog he put up everyone’s top 5 favorite books.

I can come up with 2 so far :)

" VALERIE JARRETT: Well, I think it's becoming more and more extreme and more and more marginalized. Look at the number of people who actually say they're registered- consider themselves a Republican. If that's the direction they want to go, fine."

Yup, about 20% of the country identify themselves as Republican.  But, about 40 % self identify as conservative.  The reason the Republicans have been hemorraging voters is that instead of standing on conservative principle, they have been trying to be loved by the driveby media and abandoning their principles.  Reagan carried 49 of the 50 states by running on and standing for conservative principles, not by trying to appeal to every voter in the country.  He didn't follow the advice of the media to make the Republican tent bigger by standing for nothing.  That was tried by the Republican Party in 2006 (we lost congress) and in 2008 (we lost the Whitehouse and congress).  Great  strategy there, guys!

Once Republicans, as a Party, start to stand for something, they will start attracting more registrants.  They need to stand for conservatism, because there is already one party that stands for marxist-socialism.  Give the voters a clear choice and see what the message to Washington is.  Hint: remember 40% self identify as conservative, 20% as moderate, and 19% as liberal. (I believe those were the numbers.)

Last year, I voted for Palin.  McCain just happened to be on the ticket ahead of her.  I will not do so in the future.  I will vote for the conservative candidate.  If that happens to be the Republican candidate, great.  If that happens to be the Libertarian or Constitutionalist, that is also great.  I will no longer vote for the lesser of two evils.  And, if that means the United States is no longer a world power, tough.  You get the government you deserve.  If you want to go slowly or quickly into obscurity and second or third world status, continue to vote for a RINO or a Democratic, respectively.  "Oh, but Mike, a third party candidate can't win!"  Of course they can't win if you don't vote for them.  Vote the issue, not the party.

"A communist is someone who reads Marx.  An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx."  Ronald Reagan

   Well it is a purge or a civil war of sorts.  Ever since Barry Goldwater, with his Western conservatives, challenged the Eastern moderates/liberals for control of the party there has been a struggle within the Party. 

Wow.  Stephanopawuss is looking more and more like Mike Dukakis every time I see him.

I'd comment on what he said; but in all candor, I don't listen to a word that this Clinton plant says.

I am in favor of a big tent for the  Republican party. One that is large enough to hold all the conservatives. A necessary and enforced rule must be: No RINOs allowed.

   Yep. It is still 1983 and we have our choice of 3 liberal broadcast news stations or the mighty liberal newspapers. There is no internet. no google. no blogs. no newsbusters. So we only get what people like George gets to spoonfeed us.

   You saw this conservative candidate just come in and swamp the Republican who was pro-choice, pro-gay rights. 

 Yep. That is what it comes down to every single time. Tiny Tiny Tiny wedge issues. That is all we think about. That is all that drives us. Abortion. Gay Rights. Marijuana laws. Legalizing machine guns. Equal pay for equal sex. Passing out condoms to the teenagers. Legalizing prostitution. Spanking children in the schools.

 Nah. It is never about limiting government. Less regulations. Lower taxes. Limiting social entitlements. Freedom from a coercive government. Defending this country. Not destroying our economy on a political global warming scam. Nah. That is never on our mind.

  I just want the candidate that will let the gays openly engage in anal sex in public parks. That is it. I will destroy my party over that George.

Idiot.

Sincerely,

a Veteran of a 1000 psychic wars.

"Former top Democratic aide turned journalist"... give me a break  Dan Rather, Walter Cronkite these are journalist, Stephanopoulos is just a pr guy and always will be. His show (actually the one he took over) "This Week" is just PR for the democratic party.

There are two things at work here.  First, there's the post modern, political strategy of the "if you tell a lie often enough it becomes the truth" added to "truth is what you believe it to be".  Second, there are the ideas "if you frame the argument you control the debate" and the real, scientific, psychological/sociological "a group of people will follow their stereotype".  DON'T FALL FOR IT!

Intellectual liberals love pop philosophy and the current philosophical fad is post modernism.  One of the important parts of post modernism is that people get in lots of fights over definitions, so if you just don't define anything we can all live happily ever after.   In the Japanese movie Rashomon, all the witnesses and participants to a murder, including the ghost of the murdered man himself, tell very different stories of how he was killed.  Rashomon seems to be the inspiration for the idea that the truth is what you believe to be true.  If each version of the murder is equally true, then they can all be true!  This leads some people to conclude if the truth is just what people believe is true and you tell a lie enough times, the lie becomes the truth.  An easier way to put it is if you sling enough mud, some of it will stick.  Democratic strategists believe if you say things like, "Republicans are racists", "Republicans are warmongers" or "There's a split in the Republican party" enough times, people will believe it. 

The other half of this is that the Democrats want everyone talking about the end of the Republican Party.  They want questions, fears and doubts.  Why?  If you're talking about a split in the Republican party you'll stop talking about how Barney Frank, Nancy Pelosi, Barak Obama, Joe Biden, the health care bill, the stimulus package, the jobless rate, cash for clunkers, the mortgage bail out and too many other things to mention, have all failed.  It takes the pressure off the Democrats and puts it on the Republicans.  There's also the real, scientific psychological effect that people imitate their stereotypes. If you say Catholics have big families then people who are Catholic will start having bigger families.  If you say people who live in The South have more dogs as pets, then Southerners will actually start getting more dogs.  Democrats hope if the stereotype for the Republicans is their party is in chaos, then just by repeating it over and over, the Republicans party will actually collapse. 

Recognize what the Democrats are doing is a scam and don't fall for it.  Half the population of the Unites States agree that the Republican Party is better at governing America and that number is steadily growing.  Ignore the lies, stand your ground and protect the country you love. 

And lost?  To my knowledge, Joe Lieberman (I) is still quite the mover and shaker, keeping company with moderate Republicans, much to the chagrin to the small-tent pop-liberal Democrat Party.  Did they spin Lieberman's smack down of the New England left wingers as a referendum on how narrowminded the Democratic Party has become, not having room for moderate Democrats?

"Steady."  -- Keith Olbermann to Chris Matthews