Posted on 11/29/2010 3:20:01 PM PST by Hojczyk
The Republican nominating process of 2012 will be totally different from that of other years. In fact, it will be the opposite of what we are used to.
Since the procedural reforms initiated by Democrat George McGovern - that carried over into the Republican Party as well - primaries have determined the winner of the nominations in each party. Iowa and New Hampshire - the first caucus and the first primary in the nation - have tended to sort out the candidates for us. They narrowed down the field and left the rest of the nation with two or three alternatives in each party.
These two small states dominated the process because the contenders usually did not have the money to wage national campaigns. They could only afford to run in these two small states at the start of the campaign. And those who could afford to compete nationally (Hillary, Rudy Giuliani, and Mitt Romney) were forced to battle in these two states because they were the first test. Their superior financial resources availed them little in states so small that the purchase of TV time would not drain their treasuries.
In effect, Iowa and New Hampshire have become the quarter-finals, narrowing the field down to two candidates in each party who compete in the subsequent primaries. In 2000, Al Gore and Bill Bradly were the Democratic semi-finalists who survived these early rounds and George Bush and John McCain were their Republican equivalents. In 2004, John Kerry and John Edwards emerged as the alternatives. In 2008, Iowa and New Hampshire winnowed down the Democratic field to Hillary Clinton vs. Barack Obama and the Republican contest to John McCain vs. Mike Huckabee.
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Frantzie, I understand yout sentiment, but although the sauds might hold shares of Fox, trust me, they absolutely do NOT hold shares of Roger Ailes, and if Murdoch even hinted at trying to stop Ailes or control him, he would shout it from the rooftops.
Ailes is on a “mission from G-d.” And it ain’t allah.
You’re a broken record. You post the same on almost every thread. Fox News is the best we have. Get a clue. Read Mesta’s post above mine and take heed.
What? What is crap? Be specific? It is all fact.
Books have been written about it that detailed meeting with Al Waleed bin Tal and - Immelt, Murdoch, Redstone, Iger. Deals to get Redstone into the Korsch German TV network by AL Waleed. Al Waleed’s close multibillion deals with GE.
It’s demographics, money and network access on the satellite. They will sell you out in a second and they have.
Murdoch helping get Blair elected who led the Islamification of the UK. Do some homework. I am amazed at the idiots who think the network TV eleites are our friends and TV is mom and apple pie.
It is all about access to the satellites and countries. Redstone at CBS/MTV/VH1 will sell you out and has been to keep access to Indonesia which has over 1 billion muslims. VH1 is on in Islamic countries including Indonesia.
Who do you think has the money to bankroll some of these networks?
7 years after 9/11 you have a muslim teleprompter who was elected by American Tva nd the American media.
Letting the NH dems pick the GOP candidate is beyond stupid; but no one seems to care...
Nope. If you don’t like it tough. Prince Al Waleed is the largest shareholder of News Corp/Fox News. He is a Saudi royal who invests Saudi Arabia’s money for his uncle the king. The same Saudi Arabia that funds al qeada to kill Americans and American soldiers. He als is a major shareholder in TW and Disney plus has deals with all the networks.
Keep watching TV - it supports Al Qeada.
Amen.
Damn fools and it’s not like there’s 4 years in between to solve the issue. Sheeesh.
They are NOT going to give them to you.
Now what?
Murdoch actually seems to have had a personal epiphany since the realization of obama’s hatred for Israel which Murdoch supports very strongly. Murdoch is ALSO at war with soRos who is trying to destroy Capitalism in this country and around the world.
You have to realize that things are not always as they appear, nor are they always as you suspect. I have watched Fox since Day one, before most of the country ever heard of it.
I started noticing a change in Fox when they hired Beck. It has been getting more Conservative by the day. Fox PUBLICLY supports the TEA Party and bent over backwards to give their candidates facetime...including Christine O’Donnell.
Maybe you should give them another look, Ftantzie,
Any conservative who lets the liberal media decide their candidate is a fool.
And the Republicans have been doing this for a very long time.
In fact, in 2008, the liberal media controlled the GOP nominating process almost completely. Not only did I see this up close and personal, I even had the political director for a major network brag to me about it.
Meh,his tinfoil hat is well tuned tonight. First time I paid attention to him, it was interesting. But,after 500 repeats of the same talking points, it’s just static. .... Don’t feed the trolls.
Like people who supports candidates that you back are bunch of fools..
So you think conservatives should let the liberal media decide who their candidates are then.
You vill vote Mitt, or not at all!
Not even if hell froze solid.
I love the way you think and I love your tagline.
Let's not forget what the system you're defending produced as a nominee: John Judas McCain.
Who's the fool again?
I had no problems voting for McCain. He was 10 times better than Alan “The Loser” Keyes.. At least he had a chance to win.. Not Alan “The Loser” Keyes.. When your party wins something then I may support you.. In the meantime you are a loser and so are the candidates that you support are losers..
Yeah, well, I would expect that from a flaming leftist like you.
And your attitude is very much reflective of the hacks who run the Republican Party these days.
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