Right wing radio attacks on McCain are a GOOD thing..for US

[SoCalDem]

If our senators/congresspeople play this correctly, we might just see some action on what has long plagues our candidates.

As long as it was rightwing radio piling on democratic candidates for 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, the republicans just laughed at us and called us "sore losers" or "crybabies"...BUT now they are going after a fellow republican, and their tactics are in full-view of everyone.


It's FREE ADVERTISING...pure and simple.. It forces candidates to waste their campaign money to fight an enemy who has unlimited funds and unlimited time.... and it needs to be reined in.

The old saw "NPR & Air America are LIBRUL, and all powerful" is just another myth, and maybe now, ordinary folks will see the light.

I am all for "free speech", but what Limbaugh & his pals do day in and day out is NOT "free speech".. It's propaganda & HATE speech.

They claim to be "entertainers" and commentators, but they are nothing more than POLITICAL advertisers for a narrow sliver of the right wing agenda....and YES.. there IS a right wing agenda..(we have LIVED it for many decades, and it's KILLING our country)

If they are going to be on the air trashing anyone...republican or democrat, the people they smear should have EQUAL airtime access FREE to refute what these blowhards are saying..

When Mccain loses (please let him lose)..I have a feeling he may be more receptive (as will his supporters) in seeing to it that some air-time fairness creeps back into the media scene.

It's one thing for Move-on or a right wing organization to PAY FOR an ad to be run, but it's entirely another thing for a dozen or so political hacks to get PAID to do nonstop negative ads 24-7..and get no challenge.

[frazzled]

1. Well, not necessarily

The effect of all this right-wing hatred toward McCain may be to make him look more moderate in the eyes of independent voters, and socially moderate Republicans.

Whoever is going to win in 2008, D or R, is going to need to attract substantial portions of that independent and moderate vote. We could have another 49.5 to 50.5 election--and in whose favor it would be, I don't know. We really need to have a 56 to 44 election to get anything progressive done.

[Happyhippychick]

2. I don't think the indies will be nearly as important if the Repukes won't vote for him.

They hate the guy and in all of my perusing of right wing chat boards I haven't found too many who are willing to vote for the guy. Most intend to write in Thompson or Keyes (roll eyes smiley).

[niceypoo]

3. Most likely the republicans will run a third party candidate

They have a history of running more and more radical candidates and when this doesn't happen, they bolt to some fringe nut case. Anything short of another neocon, or a rapture cultist, is unacceptable to them.

McCain doesn't have a snowballs chance in hell with his 'war forever' stance, he is basically irrelevant.