The newspaper couldn't say it anymore aptly when they say, "What better way for the party to reach conservative and "values" voters who might consider changing allegiances?"
And when you get right down to it, the Dems just don't have an awe-inspiring bunch of candidates. Hillary, Obama, John Edwards, Dennis Kucinich, and Bill Richardson just don't cut it. They love to posture and criticize and VERY criticizable Pres. Bush and they are promising everything under the sun, yet I have yet to hear any plausible campaign rhetoric that would make me want to vote for any of them.
Honestly, party labels don't interest me one iota and from what I'm seeing are not interesting the American public at large. Just as I predicted after the November elections, you either have the Republicrats or the Demipublicans. Same people who have exchanged the same ties. Despite promising a major shift, the Democratic controlled U.S. Congress and U.S. Senate (albeit with very slim margins) have not put President Bush in what they hoped to gridlock him. The truth is, even with chief yappers Nancy Pelosi and her old worn out attack dog (in his mind), John Murtha (and on occasion the Democrats Bitch-In-Chief, Sen. Barbara Boxer), they have gridlocked themselves. Gridlocked bad.
At this point, I'm putting my own money on Rudy Guiliani.
Las Vegas Journal Review, March 11, 2007.
EDITORIAL: Meltdown over Fox
Network co-sponsors state Democratic debate -- oh my!
Hard-core liberals can't stand the Fox News Channel. Passing a television that's tuned to the conservative favorite forces many of them to close their eyes, cover their ears and scream, "La la la la la la la la la!" Then they dash to their computers and fire off 2,500 e-mails condemning the outlet, none of which are ever read.But liberals' aversion to Fox News has finally gone over the top. The Nevada Democratic Party had agreed to let the right-tilting network co-sponsor, of all things, an August debate in Reno between Democratic presidential candidates. Party officials were serious about drawing national attention to the state's January presidential caucus, the country's second in the 2008 nominating process.
What better way for the party to reach conservative and "values" voters who might consider changing allegiances? But the socialist, Web-addicted wing of the Democratic Party was apoplectic. The prospect of having to watch Fox News to see their own candidates would have been torture in itself. So they set the blogosphere aflame with efforts to kill the broadcast arrangement, or at least have all the candidates pull out of the event. Before Friday, the opportunistic John Edwards was the only candidate to jump on that bandwagon.
You'd think the deal called for having Sean Hannity and Ann Coulter mock the candidates between comments. No, even unfiltered, unedited, live debate between loyal Democrats couldn't be entrusted to Fox News.
The approach of outfits such as MoveOn.org is so juvenile it's laughable. Imagine if every political organization created litmus tests for news organizations before agreeing to appear on their programming. Republicans would have boycotted PBS, CBS, NBC, ABC, National Public Radio and The Associated Press decades ago.
This hyperventilation results from the fact that far-left Democrats have no comparable media outlet, nor any widespread national appeal, for their radical views in favor of heavy-handed regulation, wealth redistribution, diplomatic capitulation and economic protectionism. So they attack their rivals' messenger with a reckless barrage of rhetoric that cuts down their own allies with friendly fire.
By Friday, the Nevada Democratic Party caved in to the lunatic fringe and began seeking a more "appropriate" television partner.
Comedy Central, perhaps?