California Conservative

If you want to know how panicked Democrats are, you needn’t look further than this post.Check out this rant:

Something is not right. We have a terrific candidate and a terrific VP candidate. We’re coming off the worst eight years in our country’s history. Six of those eight years the Congress, White House and even the Supreme Court were controlled by the Republicans and the last two years the R’s have filibustered like tantrum throwing 4-year-olds, yet we’re going to elect a Republican who voted with that leadership 90% of the time and a former sportscaster who wants to teach Adam and Eve as science? That’s not odd as a difference of opinion, that’s logically and mathematically queer.

First off, the Democrats don’t have a “terrific candidate and a terrific VP candidate.” They’ve got Sen. Hopeandchange at the top of the ticket and Slow Joe 2.0 as his running mate. That’s hardly the dynamic duo. Over on the SC Times Story Chat, I posted this comment:

I think some Democrats, not many by any means, are having buyer’s remorse. I think that Democrats are wondering if Hillary wouldn’t have been a better general election candidate.

It didn’t take long before a liberal commenter posted this:

More than you think.

Although most of “us” tried to warn “them”… unfortunatly we couldn’t compete with the obscure promise of “hope & change”… as well as the media’s refusal to show Barry’s negative side.

That kinda startled me, both because of how quick the reply came and in the disenchantment it represents. This ties into something else, too. Pundits keep talking about whether Gov. Palin will be able to pick off disenchanted Hillary women voters. The answer is yes but it’s almost immaterial compared with other factors. Gov. Palin will appeal to suburban women who might be pro-choice but for whom that issue isn’t the issue. An indicator that this is more than a phenomenon is how Kirsten Powers has defended Gov. Palin against the Left’s most ruthless attacks and in Geraldine Ferraro’s refusal to say who she’ll vote for this November.

If the Ruthless Wing of the Democratic Party hadn’t treated Gov. Palin this harshly, these women would likely have been firmly in the Democrats’ camp. Instead, they’re ambivalent at best. That doesn’t bode well for Democrats.

The thing that confirmed that the left has lost it was this:

It reminds me of playing blackjack (a losers game). You make all the right moves, play the right hands but basically the House always wins. I know what you’re going to say ” But I won twelve hundred dollars last year in Atlantic City!” Of course there are victories. The odds aren’t tilted crazy, but there is a 51%-49% advantage. And in the long run, the house has to win. The house will win.

So what is this house advantage the Republicans have? It’s the press. There is no more fourth estate. Wait, hold on…I’m not going down some esoteric path with theories on the deregulation of the media and corporate bias and CNN versus Fox…I mean it: there is no more functioning press in this country. And without a real press the corporate and religious Republicans can lie all they want and get away with it. And that’s the 51% advantage.

Anytime liberals whine about the conservative media bias, it’s proof that they’re panicking. That’s strong enough proof for me that I’d bet the proverbial ranch that they’re panicking.

This is what happens when you pick a neophyte like Sen. Obama insted of picking a candidate like a Kathleen Sebelius or another fresh-faced governor. Senators don’t usually make great presidential candidates. It’s interesting to note that the last senator who became president, JFK, was a war hero in his own right. He was a decisionmaker. When he was in the military, John McCain was a decisionmaker, too. Interesting, isn’t it?

Here’s the most revealing part of the post:

So what do we do?

1) We give definitive clear speeches like Biden and Obama gave the other day about how no one talked about any issues at the Republican Convention and how they outright lied. But we do them over and over again. 2) We use the one place where it’s still a 50-50 game, the internet, as much as we can. 3) But most importantly we should bring up re-regulating the media and who owns it and what that conflict of interest is a lot more. By pretending there’s no conflict of interest we’re failing to alert the public that they’re being lied to or given a looking at a coin at the bottom of a pool slanted truth. Every time a pundit or elected official is on any TV news program it should be a polite formality to mention that GE has made such and such billions off the war in Iraq by selling arms or that Murdoch is a right-wing activist with a clear stake in who wins and who taxes his profits the least. Disney, GE, Viacom, and Murdoch, all want profits and the candidate and agenda that will get in their way the least.

This is utterly laughable. The newspapers are dispatching reporters to Alaska to find the tiniest pebble against Sarah Palin but the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times can’t be bothered to dig into Sen. Obama’s ties to Jeremiah Wright, Tony Rezko or William Ayers? The guy who posted this is right; we don’t have a press in this nation. That’s why serious people like Stanley Kurtz have to do the vetting.

Here in Minnesota, Lori Sturdevant is as reliably liberal as you’ll find. When it became apparent that the DFL would endorse Al Franken, a proven disaster, Ms. Sturdevant asked why nobody had vetted Franken. I said then that a reporter who’d have access within the DFL, like Lori Sturdevant, should’ve been able to vet Al Franken rather quickly.

That’s why the Agenda Media’s bias against conservatives is actually hurting liberals. People find the Agenda Media’s bias disgusting. Every time that the Agenda Media attacks Sarah Palin but says nothing about Sen. Obama’s ties to terrorists, racists and fanatics, the backlash builds.

If Democrats’ media allies want to pursue this strategy, they’re welcome to do so. It just makes bloggers’ jobs easier to find content.

Technorati Tags: Nutroots, Huffington Post, Agenda Media, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Kathleen Sebelius, Sarah Palin, Backlash, Election 2008

Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog

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