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House Republican Chairman Praises Limbaugh, Beck

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))10/22/2009 1:14:38 pm PDT

re: #340 sagehen

Thought experiment:

What if it were instead the black liberal democrat who had a pregnant unwed teenage daughter onstage with him at campaign appearances?

How many on your side of the aisle would defend the wonderful young lady trying to make the best of a tough situation? Do you really think nobody would hold that that against the candidate and his daughter?

Modern politics are as much about perceptions as they are about realities, and the popular perception ws that Sarah was forcing her daughter to keep the kid and that, by extension, she was going to force anyone else’s daughter who got pregnant to do so as well.

And that is one of the things that cost her a lot of support among Middle America.

And to bring us back to the original topic origianlly brought up in #30, is the Republican Party going to risk losing appeal to the the nearly 40% of people who make up the middle out of its desire to keep a lock-hold on the the extreme fringe?