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I have heard even talk show hosts like Laura Ingraham and Bill O'Reilly go after the GOP politicians with so much more venom than the dems...and so the dems have a head start in defeating the GOP... That is what helped in 2006...and it will be repeated in 2008, because the above named talk show hosts do NOT take criticism...or would ever admit that they were part of the defeat...

The Dems used to whine when they lost elections claiming voter fraud, a biased press that didn't get their message out, voter turnout, etc. Talk show hosts don't win or lose elections. The GOP needs good candidates, a positive agenda, and a return to the principles that made us successful ala 1994 and the Contract with America.

I don't know...

I have read articles about how George Allen was wrong NOT to pursue voter fraud possiblities in Virginia...and other politicians on OUR side not being more bulldogish..when it comes to those type problems after elections.

Also...I think any "good" candidate doesn't have a chance if the talk show hosts and other media people aren't on board...and I think that DID play a big part in 2006.

I think the constant bashing of the GOP for the border thing...overspending, the war..blah, blah...made too many stay home.

NOW they are whining...

Laura Ingraham was constantly complaining about Bush..every day...leading up to the elections in 2006...you don't think that didn't influence people?? I do...and I think it is a SHAME..I don't like it...but I do believe she and others had a lot of influence.

Just like this upcoming election...

NONE of the main talk show hosts give any credit, and thus very little "air time" to Duncan Hunter's chances.

It is a self-fulfilling prophecy on their part.

How could he get any traction when the media goes around telling his own possible constituents he doesn't have a chance...even though his agenda is SO much closer to the conservative agenda than any of the "frontrunners".

Where are you going to find those kind of candidates that want Schnitz, Ingraham and Boortz tearing them to shreds because they do not do exactly what they want? Who in the Hell would be stupid enough to put themselves through that? That is why Rudy is the choice of a lot of even very Conservative pubbies. He dealt with John Gotti, and he can handle these thugs, but there are very few that will put up with that onslaught of hate.