Dear Republicans

 

I would agree that Gingrich is highly intelligent and probably has the most legitimate experience of anyone running at the moment.

 

He also has the personality of broken sex toy and really just his facial expressions alone inspire a kind of resentment from the common person. He's an arrogant, narcissistic jackass and there's very little you can do to overcome that in the political world.

 

It's important to remember that the more intelligent you talk the more foreign you sound to the average person. So while someone like yourself and those of us that follow politics can appreciate his experience and off the cuff knowledge, to everyone else it's just "blah blah blah" with a smartass smirk.

 

FreeEnterprise wrote: The problem I have with republicans is they are the charlie browns of politics. They think the media will let them kick the football, so they get teed up and EVERY time end up on their back looking like a fool.

 

I couldn't agree more, but I'll elaborate after addressing this...

 

FreeEnterprise wrote:   Until they get it through their head that the main stream media hates them and wants them to fail (while they vote democratic in EVERY election) they will continue to look like fools.

 

You know this media bias argument is a trifecta of old, irrelevent, and misinformed.

 

Firstly-Drudgereport and Fox news make up a gigantic share of the news world. All hatred towards Fox news aside, they regularly hold the highest number of viewers for their programs. Hell, even Glenn Beck was knocking them out of the park for numbers.

 

Does that have anything to do with the fact that you can put Fox on mute and it becomes a 24 hour softcore porn shoot? Possibly, but regardless, it's like those white people that go on and on about how they've become the minority and nobody listens. It's just so ridiculous it's laughable.

 

The elections in America are still very close. The country is split right down the middle left and right and generally if one side wins or loses it's by just a small percentage of votes.

 

What that tells us is that whoever lost either fumbled the ball, batted a foul, or just plain pulled off a lazy campaign. John McCain did all three. The Republican party needs to refresh its image with the American people, and certainly needs to realize that the tea party is a fringe element and distance itself from those members

 

Am I saying the tea party is full of ignorant hillbillies like some? Not at all. But many of the views coming out of the tea party would be better represented by an independent candidate like Ron Paul than the Republican party. The time spent pandering to the far right elements is exactly how the Dems managed to lose to Bush in 04. They pandered to the far left elements in their party, pandered to the conspiracy nuts that believed Bush was responsible for 9/11, and pandered to the morons who babbled about Bush being an idiot. They made a terrible show and lost.

 

That's what the Republicans have done with this election. They've pandered to the extreme right element when the nation, in just about every study done, clearly sits directly on the fence on most issues.

 

Now they're tearing their main candidate apart, with Newt Gingrich switching from "running for president" to "let's make sure if I don't get it Romney doesn't either" mode, and most of the candidates tearing apart Romney ON HIS REPUBLICAN VIEWPOINTS. Forget gun control, forget abortion, forget his flip flopping, THIS MAN GAVE MILLIONS TO HIS CHURCH AND PROFITED FROM HIS CAPITALISTIC ENTERPRISES. DEAR LORD, HAND IT TO OBAMA ALREADY.

 

 

FreeEnterprise wrote:   If you really think the media isn't completely biased, then you need to add newsbusters to your daily reading... A few weeks of that and you will change your tune. I took journalism classes in college, and took media ethics classes... I see the rules broken daily by the major networks in the way they ask questions, ignore citing sources, and using editing/camera angles to project a certain viewpoint. Just because you buy in, and don't realize you are being manipulated, doesn't mean it isn't happening to you!

 

You constantly criticizing mainstream news media and obsession over their inaccuracies is like a health expert spending 24 hours a day researching the ingredients for Taco Bell food. Guess what? Everyone knows that cable news is the fast food of the news world. Whether they lean right or left they all cut corners and put out sensationalized headlines. If people weren't scared that the country were falling apart they'd never switch over to CNN.

 

FreeEnterprise wrote: So, we just heard that The DOJ is pleading the fifth on the fast and furious issue... Will it be on the front page of the major news?...

 

You know what else got surprisingly small amounts of news coverage? SOPA and the NDAA. SOPA being a bipartisan effort to censor the internet and NDAA being John McCain's baby child Republican 4th amendment rape machine. MASS RIGHT WING CONSPIRACY YO.

 

 

 

I 100% agree on the assessment regarding Kerry, he was just an awful candidate. I also agree on some of the comparisons I've heard drawn between him and Romney, the most prominent being that they were both second rate picks to fill in an almost certain loss to a first term president.

 

Where I think the Democrats made their biggest mistake, however, was in the months before the election. They just held a very negative tone, and I feel that they ran for the ridiculous when the obvious deficiencies in that administration were staring them in the face.

 

The Dems could have totally wrecked Bush, but they spent his entire term whining and moaning rather than actually countering his mistakes with common sense.

 

The difference here is that (in my opinon, of course) the Republicans have a much better candidate. Romney is less abrasive than Kerry, and his business history is where his real leg up is. It was a great oppurtunity for the Republicans to market a moderate candidate in a time where there's a lot of questions (even in the enemy camp) as to this leader's competency. I think that they've stumbled even harder than the left did in that the criticisms of this president have ranged from exaggeration to flat out offensive to intelligence. The amount of time spent on his birth certificate was almost mind boggling.

 

Somehow the right has managed to screw up both their chance to call Obama out on his actual mistakes AND complete destroy their candidates' credibility.