While the Democratic Party just had a highly successful YouTube format debate with rather braver-than-journalist user-gen questions, it seems the Republicans are just too scared to face regular American voters. Per Andrew Sullivan:
Rudy won't bite, apparently. Romney's decidedly cool to the idea. The others are getting iffy. Hewitt declares YouTube and CNN biased. Heh. For my part, the current old white men running for the GOP already seem from some other planet. Ducking YouTube after the Dems did so well will look like a party uncomfortable with the culture and uncomfortable with democracy. But then, we kind of knew that already, I guess, didn't we?
Ho ho, we did!
But a reader of Talking Points Memo thinks that maybe the problem isn't American voters, maybe the GOP is terrified to reveal exactly who are the core Republican voters:
As far as issues like illegal immigration and "coercive interrogation techniques" go, how does one ask questions like this in a Youtube format in an amusing way? The differences between the GOP base and the political mainstream can seem less extreme when asked by someone like Wolf Blitzer, but if presented from the standard GOP rank-and-file member of the base, it seemed like a great way to show how unhinged the GOP has become on some of these issues. Personally, I'm surprised the GOP ever got close to agreeing to this format, and once the Democratic debate happened and showed the format in action, I didn't see how it could have been pulled off by the GOP.
Mark my words: if they do hold the debate, filter will be on Rovian. You know, like 11.
Who else is making like a kittykat in the crazy camp? Why, none other than Bill O'Reilly, who has been trying his damnedest to demonize DailyKos, a place where people can go and express their opinions for all to read. You know, Participatory Democracy. O'Reilly has made such a massive misfire (he'll fail at anything here but playing to his base -- this is just strengthening Kos) that Stephen Colbert is getting into the act. By condemning...uh...promoting the site himself.
Unlike with his target, to post on O'Reilly's site you have to pay $5/month. That's $60 per year for "free" speech. And he sure can't take the heat when he's called on the hate speech posted to his site -- he's so feline he has to turn off Jane Hall's microphone and smear her, shouting, as a liar. (You can help fight back here.)
I guess when they're not chicken or chickenhawk, they're abusing their seats of power by breaking the law. In this New York Times article, they name 14 Federal lawmakers from sea-to-shining-sea who are current subjects of criminal investigations.
Yes, two of them are Democrats, well deserving of inclusion. That leaves 86% as Republicans.
They also commit perjury.
They've got that cat scratch fever.
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"GOP" stands for "Girly-men on Parade".
Actually, it's not much of a surprise that these wimps don't want to take the risk of letting their base members crawl out from under their rocks into full view. The result would be much the same as what transpires whenever Limbaugh or Coulter appear in some non-pure-Red venue -- disgust and horror among average citizens.
(Consider Rush on ESPN football -- not only was every word out of his mouth predictably racist, but he also displayed a complete and laughable ignorance of the subject for which he was hired to talk about. Big surprise, huh?)
The post-reconstruction republican party has been able to function ONLY by disguising its real motives and intentions.
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They're all bagging out so far except for Ron Paul and (to his credit, or perhaps desperation) John McCain. Meowwwwwwwwwwwwwww!
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