[Big_Monkey]

"But for a 31 year-old woman who lives in New York (or Seattle or Boston) and works in the media she is about as conservative as someone in her position could be and deserves some credit for that.

Is it too much to ask that on a show with a panel of 5 women, we can't have an articulate, knowledgeable and apologetically conservative woman who won't shrink from criticism in hopes of being "accepted" in her profession or her place of residence?

Hasselback is on the View precisely because she's none of these things. If there was a conservative woman with half a brain and a little charisma on that show, the gals of the View wouldn't be able to run roughshod over the conservative counterpoint to an otherwise overwhelmingly liberal cast.

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Is it too much to ask that on a show with a panel of 5 women, we can't have an articulate, knowledgeable and apologetically conservative woman who won't shrink from criticism in hopes of being "accepted" in her profession or her place of residence?

Yes. It's too much to ask from network television.

Hasselback is on the View precisely because she's none of these things. If there was a conservative woman with half a brain and a little charisma on that show, the gals of the View wouldn't be able to run roughshod over the conservative counterpoint to an otherwise overwhelmingly liberal cast.

Which is why you don't have someone like that on the show.

If she were that good, she wouldn't be on the show.

Especially since the other panelists don't have half a brain either.