I was just a kid during the 1980 election, but I remember the visceral hatred that the liberal media had for Reagan.
All I heard was that Reagan was going to start a nuclear war with the Soviet Union over and over again.
It gave me nightmares.
This is the first election in my memory where the media hasn’t painted the GOP candidate as a war-monger or a moron or both.
In this election, the liberal media is painting Romney as an effete, tax-dodging elitist, or the GOP version of John Kerry, which is preferable to war-mongering moron.
Nevertheless, this campaign will be a statistical dead heat until the end like 2000, and it will come down to GOTV in the swing states.
LOL, does that mean that we'll soon be hearing from the Myth Smote Veterans Forsooth?
I was a volunteer for the Reagan/Bush staff during the 1984 Republican Convention in Dallas. This was before C-SPAN and the Internet. The RNC ran their own channel covering the event. We would watch it as we were waiting for assignments. It was great because they carried all the speeches for those of us who either didn't have credentials or tickets to attend the convention. That coverage had none of the voiceovers telling us what we had just heard like all the lamestreamers tend to do.
I came home after witnessing first hand Ronald Reagan's speech. I stood not too far from Diane Sawyer while Our President was giving his acceptance speech. And, yet when I got home that evening and caught the evening news I could not believe how biased and negative the coverage was. That was my first awakening. By 1993, I was no longer subscribing to the newspaper.
And they wonder why CNN has only 100,000 viewers.
Nothing new there, the did the same thing with Goldwater.