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csen
07-10-2007, 03:58 PM
For all the crap we give old media, they cannot switch someone from a RP supporter to a Rudy supporter. Either you're on board for good, you're ambivalent, or you've never heard of him. However, old media can absolutely destroy a "first-tier" candidate. What we are witnessing today is old media putting the nail in the McCain coffin. Sometimes it's not so bad to be the underdog.

shrugged0106
07-10-2007, 04:03 PM
For all the crap we give old media, they cannot switch someone from a RP supporter to a Rudy supporter. Either you're on board for good, you're ambivalent, or you've never heard of him. However, old media can absolutely destroy a "first-tier" candidate. What we are witnessing today is old media putting the nail in the McCain coffin. Sometimes it's not so bad to be the underdog.


McCain had already used two nails way before this. One called "McCain-Feingold, and the other Amnesty.

robatsu
07-10-2007, 04:08 PM
McCain doesn't need a lot of help from MSM - he's been pounding nails into his own coffin like its going out of style. Between slavish, lapdoggish servility to necon mideast war agenda to flooding USA w/foreign, low cost labor, he has demonstrated that whatever backbone he may have had 30 years ago is a distant memory. Just a tired old man on the take. He's done it to himself.

Erazmus
07-10-2007, 04:12 PM
McCain doesn't need a lot of help from old media- he's been pounding nails into his own coffin like its going out of style. Between slavish, lapdoggish servility to necon mideast war agenda to flooding USA w/foreign, low cost labor, he has demonstrated that whatever backbone he may have had 30 years ago is a distant memory. Just a tired old man on the take. He's done it to himself.

Fixed. :D

spacebetween
07-10-2007, 04:16 PM
I've often wondered if this whole "ignore Ron Paul" thing in the media is really just a ploy to get him elected. Hear me out...

The media knows just as well as anyone that Americans have short attention spans. What better way than to build Ron up over a period of time, then? Right?

Take Fred Thompson. His whole campaign is one giant PR move. Build up intensity and speculation and make people THINK they like you -- even if they know nothing about you. Then finally say you're running, even though millions already thought you were.

This keeps Fred in the spotlight and away from controversy.

Well, I like to think that anyway.