We let the Left inform our debates. They say Gov. Palin is an idiot, unpopular, divisive and shrill, so therefore we shrink away from her and search for a Kay Bailey Hutchison Ripon Republican to augment the ticket. It’s like they have a radio control to force us this way or that. Until we get beyond that we’ll keep picking Bushes, Romneys, McCains and Doles.
But more than that, leftist propaganda has brainwashed many folks in the center. Those folks have a negative opinion of Cruz, Palin, etc. without even knowing why.
And it infuriates me the the GOP establishment does nothing to push back. Look at the presidential debates in 2008 and 2012. All the so-called moderators were lefties. One, Gwen Ifill, had even written a fawning book about Obama! Yet no protest from anyone in the GOP.