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I think you might want to think about the fact that YOU decided to coming pick this fight with me. Prior to this I had addressed no comments to you in this thread. Don't try to play "poor little picked on me" because I choose to respond to your attack.

I'm sorry but I really am not interested in wasting my time trying to teach political reality to someone who utterly refuses to even think about anything beyond her own personal emotional whimsy. You want the President to play a tit for tat yelling game with the Democrats. You want him to act like a Radio Talk Show Host. That massages the feelings of the hard core but alienates the "moderates" and the undecided. That is lousy PR. It reduces the President to the Democrat's level. THEY WANT him engaged in the debate on THEIR terms at THEIR level. We want him LEADING not dancing to their tunes!

The job of "fighting back" is the Party and the other politicians in the party's job. If you actually bother to READ any of dozens posts here every day, you see it. IF all you do is listen to the Junk Journalists, YOU will NOT see it because they SPIKE any positive stories. Turn oFf the Junk Media! They are YOUR enemy and are NEVER going to agree with YOUR views no matter HOW much effort the President puts into it. The top three talk radio hosts reach MORE voters every week then ALL the Alphabet "nightly news" broadcast combined. The Whine all the Time Choir VASTLY underestimates the reach of the new media while VASTLY over rating the Junk Journalists ability to spin public opinion.

I find it incredibly arrogant that the usual set of Freepers, week in and week out, continually lecture the President, who has won multiple elections, on how to mange his PR. He has a number of very tough elections victories in his back pocket. Therefore he has proved competence on his side. I have seen NOTHING to suggest the people who spend 100% of their time lecture the President about "What he should do" have ANYTHING to show they are qualified to render any judgment on the matter.

Don't try to play "poor little picked on me"

Now you're acting delusional. Why don't you show me where I played a victim. You won't because you can't, of course.

I'm sorry but I really am not interested in wasting my time trying to teach political reality to someone who utterly refuses to even think about anything beyond her own personal emotional whimsy.

Huh? Now you aren't even making sense. About a month ago on this thread, I commented that Lindsey Graham had just let some leftist on Russert's show get away with saying that Al Qaeda wasn't in Iraq prior to the war and that the war is what brought terrorist to the region.

When I responded that nearly all freepers knew that in the 90's, the MSM wrote frequently about how Saddam was developing a relationship with AQ and that Clinton's indictment of OBL mentioned that AQ agreed to work with Iraq and it was disappointing that Graham didn't defend the administration against these false charges, you actually went on a tirade that no one listens to the media anyway and that I was ridiculous for expecting anyone to defend the lies of the left.

So instead of trying to galvanize freepers to send information to Graham to inform him and take him to task for his a) either lack of knowledge, or b) his unwillingness to engage the leftists in an argument that could be easily won, you defended the leftist's position.

Every time someone laments that a Republican didn't do an appropriate job defending themselves, you go into the same exact rant.You want the President to play a tit for tat yelling game with the Democrats.

Now I KNOW you have a reading comprehension problem and I'm wondering why I'm wasting time responding to you. Which part of my previous post about Scott McClellan and Republicans don't you understand? Any of it, apparently.

Turn oFf the Junk Media! They are YOUR enemy and are NEVER going to agree with YOUR views no matter HOW much effort the President puts into it.

You don't understand that a lot of people aren't political junkies like us and they DO listen to the "junk media". And I'm not talking about the media anyway. I'm talking about Republicans not having the talking points that most freepers have at their fingertips. Since the Republicans are ALREADY on the "junk media" shows, like Russert's as I mentioned above, wouldn't it be better if they defended the administration? In your world, the answer is clearly no.

Top 3 Posters for Sunday 29th January 2006#

Third place
Anita. Another strong showing by the once, and future Queen. Dozens of formidable posts among which these jump out. #305. Because of this. There are 15 states in which unemployment came in below 4.0 last month. Eleven of those 15 states (73%) voted for George W. Bush in Nov. 2004. And three of the four remaining states - Maryland, Vermont, and Hawaii - have had Republican governors during the past three years. There are eleven Republican governors among the 15 states. #381. Other Media Nuggets ###### New York Times fourth-quarter net earnings plunge 41 percent, hurt by a weak advertising environment. ###### WB and UPN will be merged into one broadcast network and named CW. This is not like 2 successful businesses merge. Instead of closing the losing one, they are trying make it look otherwise. ###### Media General's (owner of Richmond Times Despatch, Tampa Tribune & 23 others, also 26 tv stations) 4thQuarter earnings plunge 32%. 399 As for others appearing on MSNBC, there was a joke floating around - "If Bin Laden want to be found nowhere, he should be on any of MSNBC show debating something. 6, 12, 13, 26, 36, 60, 72, 85, 98, 149, 208, 223, 210, 274 438, 475, 501,545.

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Cboldt. Simply one of the best Freepers to read for Legal or Congressional analysis. Been utterly invaluable in tracking the Alito vote thru the entire process. Was the earliest and most consistent voice that there would be NO filibuster. A passionate critic of the Miers nomination,, Alito's confirmation this week was validation of all the hard work this Freeper did in making the case why the fight for the Court needed to be made. #461. "I have the anti-filibuster vote up to at least 62, by adding Snowe (in the Gang-of-14), Akaka and Dorgan. Notice that filibuster is not the talk of the town?" #500. "It's not foreign surveillance either. And to the charge of it being domestic, I think a good response is "So what? If the terrorists are in the country, should we stop listening" #536. "The President will do what he needs to, in order to protect the country, whether or not Congress is up to speed.Renewal of the Patriot Act is a Congressional activity, and whether or not it's renewed, do you think the President would modify the actions being taken to protect the country". 225, 296, 315, 333, 412, 574, 577, 625, 792, 821, 872, 999, 1054

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