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Let’s go Brandon
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No, they didn't. That's my point. He raised some eyebrows as potentially very charismatic, some talk that they had hopes for him down the line. But nothing like this blind dash by the GOP to a complete unknown we are seeing today. GOP is clearly depserate for a saleable candidate. They trotted out Newt's corpse there for awhile.
Talking heads already suggesting it. What a comment that is on the GOP establishment that this guy no one has ever heard of until two weeks ago is the new hot commodity.
Have they learned nothing from their expeirnece with Palin?
Is it that they are representative of the right . . . or the fact that they've effectively got a monopoly on not being representative of the left?
Yes. Being the lone alternative is a big deal. Being the lone alternative for a very attractive demographic makes it a smoking home run.
I'd go for that if the distance between being a commercial enterprise simply giving the consumer what he wants, versus telling him what he needs, were a significant difference. But I think the line between the two at Fox is wafer thin.
They seem awfully in accord lately with the political party on the right, see eg Palin as contributor.