“He seems to be positioning himself as the most boring candidate who could possibly be mistaken for a conservative, if the viewer were slightly drunk and took his glasses off.” Jon WHO?
As our mothers admonished: “If you don’t have something nice to say, don’t say anything at all.”
It would seem such is the msm’s advice to the GOP field of candidates (otherwise they will label you “extreme,” “nutty,” “racist,” “stupid,” .....you know the drill).
Rush has mentioned this the last couple of days, in the vein of, “If you don’t want Sarah Palin because the media has “destroyed” her, then what will you do when they go down the list of GOP candidates and pick each one off in turn until they have the one they want to face their Obama?” (big paraphrasing but the gist of it).
This idea of the msm believing they have the power to pick the GOP candidate is spelled out in the exchange below.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2729973/posts
“...MILLER: How do you get elected president - if she is running, and we still don’t know - how do you get elected president with such hostility on the part of the lame stream media as she calls us?
SCOTT: Are you saying she couldn’t do it, she couldn’t overcome that?
MILLER: I’m saying it’s really hard to overcome dislike and intense hatred of that kind.
POWERS: Yeah, it’s true. It’s very difficult. I mean, when the media turned on Hillary, you saw what happened. You know, they were behind her and they decided, “No, we’re going to go with Obama.” Hard to fight that.....”