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It never fails to amaze that people get upset when politicians act like politicians. The militant left was also upset when Clinton signed welfare reform and NAFTA. Guess what, he got elected twice. Politicians do that...so do political parties. They check the morning polling data and see how far out in the middle they can go without pissing off their base too much.

The way to a conservative ascendancy is to change that morning polling data. That can only be achieved by releasing this country from the liberal death grip on information dissemination in the public and private domain while concurrently getting reasoned and viable conservative alternatives to the voters. As long as they control the sound bites and images that younger (education) and older (TV, news, movies, magazines, etc.) voters see, they will always have the upper hand and we will always be fighting for scraps from the occasional bone lady luck sends us.

Play the percentages. The rest of this ballyhoo about who is going to get the upperhand in arguing their viewpoint on FR is all heat and no light. It makes for good theater but rarely achieves victory.

The rest of this ballyhoo about who is going to get the upperhand in arguing their viewpoint on FR is all heat and no light. It makes for good theater but rarely achieves victory.

Thanks for your excellent comment.

The way to a conservative ascendancy is to change that morning polling data. That can only be achieved by releasing this country from the liberal death grip on information dissemination in the public and private domain while concurrently getting reasoned and viable conservative alternatives to the voters. As long as they control the sound bites and images that younger (education) and older (TV, news, movies, magazines, etc.) voters see, they will always have the upper hand and we will always be fighting for scraps from the occasional bone lady luck sends us.

Agreed, with this caveat...
While there's certainly bias, "they" don't control every soundbite now, and never have. Time and again our side fails to make the case.
How many times have facile lightweights like Barney Frank run circles around our guys because we're hesitant about engaging and defeating our opposition?