re: #232 DaddyG

If anyone on the left is asking me to disavow conservative talk hosts and their bad behavior (which I often do) then I feel it is right to ask them not to portray them as “main stream” or representative of middle-right thinkers.

But DaddyG, you are not “main stream” of the conservative movement right now. Look at the right Blogosphere.

If they claim the Democrats were any less radicalized I would ask them to provide me the proof that there was any extensive effort to disavow their more radical voices by the center as Reagan,Bush1,Bush2 Derangement Syndrome ran rampant for decades.

I suggest we stick to Bush2. Critics of Bush2 were routinely explicitly or implicitly called traitors on all the major networks and in the print media. They didn’t need to be disavowed, because they had no influence or voice until more and more failures turned up, and Bush supporters finally shrank to a 20 % minority. Even then, few of the maligned critics were rehabilitated, and the later retracted bashing of the critics cost no pundit his or her job or even credibility in the village.

Evidence suggests Democrats elect their radicals to public office while Republicans relegate them to pundit status.

Well sure, if Reid is a lefty.