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Old 03-25-2017, 09:27 AM   #54
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Good article from David Frum (Feels weird typing that) called "The Republican Waterloo" ) in which he spends the whole time saying "I told you so".

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics...terloo/520833/


With the passing of the AHA, Frum had written an article imploring his fellow conservatives to get away from the right wing media before it was too late. The GOP and the right wing media do not have the same goals or challenges. A political party succeeds on compromise, building consensus and dealing with intricate policies. The right wing media's only goal is whip up anger to keep ratings high. They trade in short soundbites and dispose inconvenient facts. That's something a successful ruling party simply can't do.

It boils down to this: the right wing media spent so much time denigrating policies and policy makers it made them successful, but it changed the Republican party. The party became the back seat drivers that don't know how to drive.

It's been an easy road to election for most of the GOP these last 6 years. Fox, Rush, Beck, etc made the right so angry about their alleged treatment at the hands of those damn libtards they simply had to promise to fight against them. It was easy to scream about how bad Obamacare is, but much harder to actually construct something useful.

They'll be in for a tough re election because they're realizing they've replaced the Dems as the drivers to their GOP backseat driving primary challengers.
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