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Republicans: A Threat to the Republic? -- In These Times

While the Republicans send up light-weights like Bush and Palin, the Democrats generally select candidates with strong credentials in governance.

By comparison to Bush in 2000 and 2004 and Palin in 2008, the Democrats correspondingly put up Al Gore, John Kerry and Joe Biden. While those three men surely have their shortcomings, they all are highly qualified and deeply experienced individuals.

Even a Democratic newcomer like Barack Obama demonstrated a first-rate intellect and impressive organizational skills as a candidate.
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Perhaps, the Republicans’ greatest success has been in intimidating Democrats, many of whom are scared away from charting a different course out of fear that they will be targeted by the Right’s potent attack machine.
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Odd that such highly qualified, experienced men and women of character would be scared by an attack machine run by doofuses.

Another key factor in this political dysfunction is that journalists in the mainstream media have their own career fears about being accused of “liberal bias” if they challenge right-wing canards or investigate GOP crimes.

With a few exceptions—like MSNBC’s experimental evening lineup of liberal hosts—the U.S. news media continues to cower before the Right’s demonstrated ability to destroy journalists who get in the way.
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What world is this guy living in?
 
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I am seriously concerned about the mental health of the man or woman responsible for this.
 
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I can't seem to get the article to open, but am immediately put off by the overgeneralizations noted by you fellows.
 
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VBH, aside from his politics, do you not think Obama ran a organized campaign?
 
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rjd970 said:
VBH, aside from his politics, do you not think Obama ran a organized campaign?
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And to add to that, I think how he is running his PR campaign (don't know what else to call it) is nothing short of genius... too bad his policies absolutely scare me to death. The level of communication he does is something I feel should be built upon. I know he is DEEPLY sugar coating things when he does his town halls and "infomercials," but in the end I feel some level of props are due to his desire to get his message out.
 
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OrangeYankee said:
And to add to that, I think how he is running his PR campaign (don't know what else to call it) is nothing short of genius... too bad his policies absolutely scare me to death. The level of communication he does is something I feel should be built upon. I know he is DEEPLY sugar coating things when he does his town halls and "infomercials," but in the end I feel some level of props are due to his desire to get his message out.
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Condoleeza Rice said she graded the Bush administration as a "B" on policy development and a "D" on policy execution. IMO, I would reverse those grades with the Obama administration.
 
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rjd970 said:
Condoleeza Rice said she graded the Bush administration as a "B" on policy development and a "D" on policy execution. IMO, I would reverse those grades with the Obama administration.
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Sounds about right. Of the two though, option one is better. Being good at executing crappy policy is trouble.
 
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