If you never watched it, how do you know it was a piece of garbage? Last week's episode featured her black Republican chief of staff. Geena told him he was the most ethical person she's ever known.
Her vice president is a Republican. He was also portrayed in a favorable light last week as he opposed the machinations of the slimy Donald Sutherland who's a Republican. The Democrats in the show have frequently been portrayed as unscrupulous and unprincipled.
I like the show. It has a halfway intelligent script and although some of the plots are a bit farfetched, the show can be entertaining. At least it isn't some puerile comedy with toilet jokes and double entendre like most of the tv fare these days.
When the early background story came out that Mackenzie Allen was a conservative who was not a Creationist, word went out from a thousand Fundamentalist pulpits across the land that the character was "a liberal" and the Faithful would imperil their Immortal Souls if they watched it.
Thank you for your contrarian point of view. I had not had time to watch the program (I dont watch much television at all these days), so I had assumed, from reading here on FR, that the show was simply liberal spew. Your post has corrected that, and has served to remind me how easy it is to make judgements based on the judgements of biased people, and how that can easily be wrong.