I think Reagan managed the media pretty damned good.. (and he was half-senile)
You guys act like this is rocket-science.
It isn't.
The GOP makes great inroads when they stand up and behave like men.
Witness Reagan and the Republican Revolution..
They get a resounding ho-hum, when they try to out democrat the democrats.
We've already got democrats.
We don't need any more.
We can't even get rid of the ones we've got.
Because some of his advisors wrote books about how a picture trumped reporters' words, and because he was so successful at going over their heads, the democrats and the reporters caught on!
Bush cannot do what Reagan did. Did you miss the speech where the media refused to cover it? Do you not know that the networks, not the White House, determine coverage?
Bush has had to fly a damn plane onto an aircraft carrier to get some coverage! Apparently you think that a president can now wave his magic wand and get air time. Not in these times, OWK.