On 4/20/05, Gruss Gott wrote: > How is it then that you can explain the Republicans complete > abdication of responsible fiscal policy and the talk radio audience's > acceptance of it?
See what I mean? > On social issues how can you explain their blatant use of the federal > gov't? For example, Pat Buchanan called the use of Federal Marshals > to deport Elian Gonzolas (sp?) "police state tactics", yet supported > sending in federal marshals in the Schiavo case. Pat Buchanan is on talk radio? I couldn't imagine anyone listening or caring what he says. > I have emails from 7 years ago from colleagues wailing at the use of > the federal gov't in state matters; wailing over high discretionary > spending - yet today those same people think all of those things are > ok. Including Rush and the others. You should clean out your mail. > Yet on the other hand you have liberals that still spike trees for > environmentalism. That still support gay marriage. That still want > the government to solve the poverty problem. > > My point is that the last 5 years have seen drastic, almost > revolutionary, changes in the Republican rhetoric; much of it 180^ > opposed to what it used to be. And all of the talk radio hosts have > shifted with it. So the Republicans are bad because they're too right wing or they're bad because they stick too their principles. A no win situation. Maybe it's a good thing that Bush tries to seek the middle occasionally. As for toeing the line Savage rips the Pres and others every day for being too Liberal. He calls them all Rino's (Republican in Name Only) > Why? Because creating an "us and them" is what they do and if they > disagree with their "side" there's no market. There's a market > because Rush listeners, in general, like hearing what they're supposed > to think and liberal listeners don't. Again according to the studies the talk show listeners are more educated and more informed. They also don't go around calling the other side brainwashed idiots every chance they get. Must have something to do with the more educated part.:) > By the way, that's not just my opinion; there's reams of polling and > demographic segmentation to support it. It's the major reason why > there wasn't a lot of investment in Air America: PEGs are mostly > liberal but they're not stupid. Please please please let me see something that backs this statement! I get it, Air-America is were they pick facts out of the air :) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:154706 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
