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I will have to check that book out.

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I bet you are somewhat surprised after this past week to read this coming from me. I do remember the differences between Newt the Minority Leader and Speaker Newt, I remember how bitterly crushed he was to not exit Air Force 1 with Pres. Clinton.
I think there is a problem with folks who hang around DC too long getting too high of an opinion of their importance in the world.


The purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better.
Dr. Theodore Dalrymple

We all agree much more than our fights let on. I think a lot of that still happens because people have been so focused on the 2-5 issues McCain has split from orthodoxy on. While I (and a few others) have focused on the other 10-20 major and minor issues facing the country. So we argue past one another. But that's a threadjack.

Anywho, glad to see we're on the same page on this one. That book is one reason I supported Coburn in the OK primary, which was my first blogging experience (and how Mike/Ben recruited me back in the pre-Erick as furher days).
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they get to DC and get spooked by the first between election polls that say the voters voted for the opposite of what a poll says they really want.

spineless repubs

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is it a lack of good communication of a message?

because it seems that Reagan could make the public believe in what he was doing, but now we can't seem to communicate the necessity of being proactive in fighting terror, spreading free trade, or a myriad of other issues that it seems Reagan was able to do so well... maybe I'm overstating it and if I am then please let me know...

was the media less biased back then?? or was Reagan just able to outgun the media??? because it seems now that especially Bush and even McCain to some degree are just drowned out by the media... my biggest issue with Bush has been his unwillingness to fight the media onslaught against him and i think that has in many ways caused the war in Iraq to be demonized despite what should be considered a noble effort...

have many Americans fallen into a coma, so to speak, now that we're the only superpower and we're still feeling a hangover from the "peace dividend"... for whatever reason it seems the small government message has become stale, not to me, but it seems to many americans it has... this is certainly something conservatives have to be concerned about because if we don't organize and stop the continued expansion of the federal government we're going to become a European type, quasi-Socialist nation...

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but no, the media was actually MORE biased since we had no Rush or Fox news or internet

2 other factors:

The failed carter dem lib years were fresh on peoples minds

and people weren't spoiled by the success of reagan's policies to the point of seeing a good economy as a given

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www.theminorityreportblog.com
www.race42008.com
"One man with courage makes a majority." - Andrew Jackson