[Howlin]

It's certainly not the end of the discussion; I posted what has been quoted over and over by the talking heads, including Michael Barone, Brit Hume and Charles Krauthammer. Take it up with them -- you know, THOSE liberals.

[cgk]

What did you do, Howlin?

(joke: this thread is now in the Smokey Backroom).

[Mamzelle]

I remember Brit's dumbfounded, stunned, stupified face the day of the election, when it turned out that the exit polls were so much manure. And Brit's my favorite guy. My own DH knew why, "Republicans don't talk to idiots and jerks. They vote, and they go home." A very simple thing, but I believe that is why the exit polls were so laughably wrong. Republicans don't want to talk to reporters, who are idiots and jerks. When they see one, they don't make eye contact. They avoid him, and go home.

As for Krauthammer, he's an urbanite and an elitist and I stopped listening to him or reading his stuff when he went off the deep end, stark raving mad over Gibson's Passion. I have since found out that he joined forces to try to 1) elect McVain and 2) helped lead the intellectual argument that has resulted in an turning over some of the Balkans to the Islamists.

I don't know much about Michael Barone. Isn't he an investment writer? He and Dobson would get along, because Dobson is one of the shrewdest, most hardheaded businessmen I've ever seen.

I would like to point out that that day with those conservatives (at least Kraut calls himself that), there were no evangelicals to be found at Fox.

None to be found at Weekly Standard. None at National Review. No evangelical gets a fair shake in the publications, unless they own them, like Dobson. They're assumed to be beyond the pale.

And that's why they are defensive.