[subterfuge]

Exactly right GOP. The republican party is getting a little too much credit for the liberal/leftist/dem meltdown. The American public has awakened to the subterfuge that is the Dem party and they now understand the MSM is NOT on the side of America.

[Wallace T.]

The Republican Party has ridden several waves in the last 30 years that have carried the party into majority control of Congress and the White House. The first was the tremendous popularity of Ronald Reagan, who was rightly dubbed The Great Communicator. The second was the rise of the Christian Right and its network of activists, pulpits, and Christian radio and television. At about the time the Christian Right started losing some of its clout in the early 1990s, talk radio came along to galvanize conservatives, religious or not. Several years later, the Internet became a greatly favored means of communication.

For the first time since the decline and/or liberal takeover of the old newspaper chains like the Hearst and McCormick newspapers decades ago, there is a vast network of Web sites and radio talk shows touting the conservative line. The GOP had nothing to do with it (although the FCC under President Reagan abolished the ill-named Fairness Doctrine). Many Republican leaders are apparently still unaware of the change wrought in the media landscape.