re: #673 Charles

Nonsense. I’m not “tearing down conservatives,” and that quote is from ME.

If you don’t think the media have a huge effect on elections, you’re in a dream world — but that’s not the point. The point is that Bobby Jindal DID do all of those things. It’s all true.

And that truth will have more of an effect on people who might otherwise be persuaded to vote GOP than anything else. He’s not a viable candidate with all of this stuff in his dossier.

Well, if you say you aren’t tearing down conservatives, fine, I’ll have to take you at your word.

And I took the blogger’s point to be not just that Jindal did those things, but that those “things” make him an unacceptable candidate - it is that view from him that I’m disputing.

And I never claimed the media don’t have a huge effect on elections. What I am saying is that the way to *combat* it is to not accept their view of what is “good” or “bad” in a candidate, and then try to get conservative candidates to conform with that. I think that’s one of the big factors that led to the conservatives’ terrific success in this last presidential election. :)