I am a Palin supporter and I don’t need any progressives to turn me against the GOP. The GOP does not need any help with that. Unless and until the GOP throws out the old guard that helped get us in this mess, they won’t be getting my vote.
The media slandered Republicans every second of every single day for 8 years from thousands of media outlets, every newspaper, every TV in every American’s living room.
The trouble is most government educated people don't have the background to understand what the media did to them(brainwashed them) and how the media slandered republicans.
For example the media called “spending “ for 2 wars ,the media made that out to be “government spending” or “Republicans increasing government spending”
1. spending for 2 wars may show an increase in the dollar value but that was not really “republicans increasing government spending” or “republicans growing government” and the media used this to turn conservatives against the GOP
2.Ditto for inflation. Inflation does not equal increases in government spending but the media used the dollar value to say “Republicans greatly increasing government spending”
when the government hadn't grown but just the value of the dollar had decreased so something cost 2 trillion after 10 years instead of 1 trillion but it was the same size. But the media went crazy “oh look at that Bush increased government spending (government size) by $1 trillion dollars in 8 years” blah blah blah more lies. yet most people just see that and don't know the media is not taking inflation, and spending for wars, and population growth into account just to make Republicans out to be the party of big government so that conservatives would turn against the GOP>
ok i have about 3 to 100 other explanations about what the media was doing but of course brainwashed people won't believe reason or don't understand how inflation , wars etc does not equal government growing.