[nopardons]

Oh really ? Not after the BULLMOOSE Prty lost,nor when Wallace lost, nor countless other times. History IS important and you should actually study it.

[inquest]

*Ahem* "The Bull Moose platform called for the direct election of senators; women's suffrage; monopoly-control laws; minimum-wage and child-labor legislation; tariff reform; and the initiative, recall, and referendum at the federal level."

You're absolutely right. What a bunch of losers.

[Luis Gonzalez]

I was on another thread with some of these Constitution Party types, and I asked a simple question. I wanted to know how the Constitution Party would solve the current prescription medication crisis.

I even "elected" one of the Constitution Party supporters to Congress, and asked him to detail what actions he would take to deal with the issue.

I received thousands of words on what has gone wrong with the country since 1788, what evil government rains down on us, and demagoguery beyond belief.

The guy was not in Congress fifteen minutes before he began behaving just like every other politician in DC...talking about everything other than the issue at hand, avoiding the hard questions, and doing absolutely nothing.

What I never got was an answer on how the Party would fix the problem.

[Common Tator]

Have you ever considered why the media is a laging indicator?

We know the media was right wing in the thirties, forties and most of the 50s. The media has been leftist from 1960 unitil now.

WHY?

For most of the first 30 years of the last century the Republicans were in control of the presidency, the house and the senate. If you were a reporter and wanted the news first, you had best have a good relalionship with the Republidna leadership. Most reporters did.

But when Roosevelt came to power in 1933, the media was still on the right.They fought and opposed the Democrats until nearly 1960. But from 1932 until 1960 it was the new minor reporters that got the scoups from the Democrats. A young Walter Cronite and Andy Rooney did get more news out of FDR and his party than did Conservative star anchor H.V. Kaltenborn. Slowly the media moved to the left. And by 1980 it was hard to the left. But with Republicans taking the house in 1994 and keeping it, by taking back the senate and then the presidency, the leftist media is in a bind. Bush, Hastert, and Frist are feeding stories to Fox and holding back on CNN. If the Republicans keep the senate, house and presidency until 2012, the media will shift again with a new generation of reporters. It will be the right wing reporters who get the news. Soon the new media stars will be right wing stars.

The media is driven by public opinion as is the supreme court. But since both the media and the supreme court are not term limited or elected they are a lagging indicatorn. It takes as long as twenty years for them to reflect public opinion.

Why do you think Chris Wallace changed from ABC to Fox? Chris wants to be on the wining team, and changing from left to right is small price to pay to be on the winning team.

The media is influenced over time by who has power not who wants power.