Lets take the worst case scenario and state that 27% poll was falsified. Okay, would that lessen the need to have a well-versed person from our side there to rebut it, or increase that need?
I think you'd agree it would be best to have someone there that was prepared to rebut it. Doesn't that validate exactly what I've been trying to promote?
I totally agree with you that the Republicans have been limp washcloths. One thing that polls do measure well is the impact of a powerful ad campaign (even one packed with lies) on the public (mostly the non-voting public). If Rep. senators and congressmen (and, sadly, Bush) had been meeting their "public relations" responsibility over the past year, there'd be no question about the polls right now.
After Tom Delay was indicted he could have had his pick of any show to be on in the mSM, and the reason would be to beat him up verbally from pillar to Post and to throw insults about the president in with the onslaught. The MSM invites their Guests on not vice versa. Do you think that Trent Lott would be on any of those shows if he did not have a huge vendetta against President Bush, and look like a bloody fool half the time? Lott has his agenda and the MSM have theirs and that is why he is on, they use the guy, and he foolishly thinks they are helping him. This is the type of Guy that gets invited on the MSM shows. I would love to see Dick Cheney,John Cornyn, Delay, Etc on more often, but they do not run the MSM. Unless there is some controversy you will not see these people on because the MSM knows that if they start asking the inappropriate questions not pertaining to the reason that they are there that the Pubbies or White House Representative will call them on it. Sometimes the Pubbies will not get beaten up because they force them to stick to the subject matter, but you cannot guarantee this will be the case.