aquapub

There's an eery similarity between the official Democrat talking point of advocating that Republicans elect liberal flip-floppers like McCain and Huckabee and the persistently pro-McCain, pro-Huckabee, anti-Romney media coverage of this presidential race. For those of us who pay even the least bit attention to media coverage, this pattern is more than familiar, it's standard.

Whether it be the NY Times glorifying the "populism" of Huckabee and calling criticisms against John McCain "familiar smears," while telling us that Romney is "trying to sell himself as a leader," but he "is actually a follower and a panderer, as confirmed by his flip-flops on nearly every issue" (the reverse is true...McCain and Huckabee flipped all over the place, Romney, once-abortion), or Tom Brokaw driving home the talking point that Reaganism is dead; that there is a "nomadic herd" of Republicans "rejecting the dogma" of actual conservatism, insisting that the country is "hungry for solutions" as opposed to conservatism, or Chris Matthews calling actual conservatives like Thompson fanatics while praising liberal candidates as "cool," the media seems even more determined to put liberals like Huckabee and McCain up against Hillary than Democrats do.

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DarkWizard12

^---Huckabee never filiped-flopped, he believes the same now as he did while governor of arkansas. Remember, just about all the negative stuff his opponents have been pulling on him are FALSE. Don;t be so quick to buy it, research it on your own. You'll see that much(if not all) of the spending on education Huck did was COURT ORDERED.

niftydrifty

hmmm. interesting. "standard media coverage" of Romney.

meanwhile, what are Bill O'Reilly, James Dobson, Limbaugh, Coulter, Glenn Beck, the National Review, Hannity, ABC correspondent Jake Tapper, the Grand Rapids Press, the Reno Gazette-Journal, Newsweek senior writer and political correspondent Jonathan Darman, the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Michelle Malkin, Newsmax, townhall, the Sioux City Journal, Newsweek assistant managing editor Evan Thomas, Politico political columnist Roger Simon, Politico political columnist Mike Allen, Peggy Noonan, Hugh Hewitt, Chris Matthews, Michael Novak, Fox News, the WaPo, Will Kristol, NBC Today co-host Matt Lauer, the people at freerepublic, US News and World Report, Tim Russert, the Wall Street Journal, etc ... all saying about Romney?

apparently, according to pubby, they are not "media."

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mpg

That's a long list but it's still a miniscule portion of the media.

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niftydrifty

"etc" means it keeps going. those are all people or entities that have endorsed or spoken favorably of Romney. there are more. I was able to create the list because I pay more than even the least bit attention to media coverage.

SouthernDemocrat

Looks like the media is trying to save you guys then. The Democrats are just foaming at the mouth at the chance of running against Romney, he would go down like Mondale in a general election.

Romney comes off as nothing but a flip flopping opportunist. He was pro-choice, pro-gay rights (in his own words more so than Ted Kennedy), and signed a universal healthcare plan thats almost exactly like the one Hillary is currently proposing, until the day the guy decided to run for president. There is just something real seedy about the guy. Almost everyone says that, Republicans included.

Your best bet is McCain. McCain's problem is that he is getting too old. Thats really where he is weak, but he has a lot of support among independents, and thats what you need to win in a general election. I never have understood why a lot of hard core Republicans don't like him. Sure, he is a maverick, but he also has something like an 82% lifetime rating from the Conservative Union, he is Pro-Life, and he is the only Republican candidate that probably would actually try to reduce the fiscal size of government. He would probably be the first truly fiscally conservative Republican President since Eisenhower. I don't know that he would be a tax cutting president, but he would certainly be a budget cutting president which is exactly what conservatives are supposed to think we need.

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danarhea

The reason that McCain is cleaning up in the primaries now is because REPUBLICANS are voting for him. Or do you claim that Republicans are sheep with no minds of their own?

Republican voter: The Liberal media made me do it.

Yea, right. LOL.

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aquapub

I have researched it, and he DID flip-flop numerous times, the one that should bother conservatives most is the total 180 he did on immigration.

Congratulations, you've named a bunch of media sources...most of which are partisan pundits who have nothing to do with sources that are supposed to be objective smearing Romney while lathering up the liberal Republicans.