So very wrong IMHO.
To be fair, until very recently, I had never seen the View. From what I understand, Elizabeth joined the show a few years aga after a lengthy search by Barbara Walters and ABC. I didn't see the other candidates, but I find it very, very curious that the person they get to represent the conservative (although I don't find EH very conservative at all) is Elizabeth Hasselback.
Before the View, she apparently was a contestant on Survivor, hosted a fashion show on E! Network and graduated with a Design degree from a NE college. This is the best that ABC could find? Hardly. ABC and Barbara Walters purposely didn't hire a woman who had tremendous command of issues, history, political science and law - they hired a telegenic fashion designer.
Conservatives are so few and far between on TV, everyone that we get carries enormous weight (whether they deserve it or not). From what I've seen, EH continually fails to present a conservative counterpoint to her (overwhelmingly liberal) show colleagues in an intelligent, articulate, reasoned and compelling way. Time and time again, she fails to put together concise, well thought-out and impacting arguments and counter-arguments in an extemporaneous manner. If she was on the high-school debate team, she'd be the mascot.
Finally, I'm sure it this is by design by ABC and Walters. As an example, almost 25,000 woman graduate from law school every year. Statistically, at least 12,000 would be right of center and 8,000 would be conservative. The network can't find one, young, telegenic female attorney to bring the conservative "A" game every day on a daytime chat fest? Sure they could, they just don't want to. Instead, we're stuck with a bubble-headed, former game show contestant to do battle with 3 professional comedians and a doyenne of network television journalism.