Posted on 04/13/2006 5:12:18 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
EGO
Republican and even conservative politicians have to know their MSM appearances will be used against Bush and the party. Spector is one of the worst EGO driven politicians who often makes anti-Bush statements just to get himself some air and ink. John McCain uses this ploy better than anyone.
The democrats have their Obama and to a worse degree, Harold Ford, Jr. These two feign non-partisanship, tease the media, then always tow the the party line when push comes to shove.
Gingrich, unbelievably, incredibly, really is running for president, so he's a whore for any MSM attention he can get.
Absolutely. Laura was outstanding, I loved when she called Today out. Newt's problem is he is looking for a future in politics, and he believes he has to appear on lame lib shows like Today to talk "sense" into the lefty viewers. Opportunity to turn the tables squandered.
Won't work, most viewers of Today will never pull an "R" lever unless Lincoln Chafee runs.
Wrong. What he said was Iraq should have been handled more like Afghanistan, where we put locals up front and in charge from the beginning. Paul Bremmer took a different tact in Iraq by not immediately putting Iraqis in charge and this allowed the insurgency to grow because we appeared to be an occupying force, rather than a liberating force. Read the entire speech. It's really pretty clear what he said.
IMHO, that is the point. Why bother saying what "should have been", when it undermines the President and the troops, except for political purposes?
It's what he said about President Bush on the Today Show, not what he said about Bremmer, that's counter productive for the rest of President Bush's term.
And I misspoke when I said his voice is to high. It's too soft.
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