What the hell is going on?!!!
“I just want to know why the media are choosing the candidates for us!!!”
Huh?!? They want to defeat conservatism same reason as ever.
That’s why they are boosting McCain and Huckabee, worst candidates for conservatives.
Brit Hume just said the SC primary Republican race is down to three: Romney, Huckabee and McCain. Two sentences later said "Thompson can't be counted out." and then said "but essential the race is down to those three."
Ask the king-makers.
“http://youdecide08.foxnews.com/2007/12/09/republican-presidential-debate-hosted-by-fox-news/";
For a couple of years now, the GOP/RNC leadership has assumed that they could do anything they pleased, kick conservatives in the teeth while begging for approval from the Progressives--all because we are terrified of Hillary.
And I believe that the GOP elites worked deliberately against some Repub conservative candidates in 2006 to provide Bush with an amnesty-friendly congress "he could work with." This is particularly appalling when you consider those same candidates who were starved of support were the ones supporting Bush in the WOT. Everything for Mexico. Our economy, our wages, our safety--everything for Mexican nationals.
Talk about alienating your base--average Republican moderates and conservatives. They thought they could do anything to us because we're so scared of Hillary.
Conservatives are middle and upper-middle class, generally. Not the elite rich. Not people with a houseful of slaves cleaning up after them.
Reagan understood them--the Joe Sixpacks. Bush does not understand the average Republican. So he allowed the RNC elites to alienate them--
So we never got the traction we needed to get a strong presidential candidate. But it's not the media. It was the GOP elites who hamstrung the process.