Posted by
jarhead on Friday, November 30, 2007 1:29:55 AM
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This is from the introduction to the youtube.com website as found on MSN Live Search. Now this may be well and good for the democrats to lure their voting constituency and it may well be perfectly aligned with the desire of liberal media such as CNN to portray Republican’s as buffoons and dancing bears but for serious conservative voters it is a tremendous disservice, thoroughly diminishes the office the President and is utterly insulting. And make no mistake-there is no fault CNN or the liberals taking advantage of this format to press their anti-conservative agenda. More power to them. It is the Republicans allowing this to happen that are at fault.
First and foremost it must be understood that these primaries are about each party selecting it’s candidate. So the debates, first and foremost, should be focused on addressing the voters necessary to select each party’s candidate that will then, in the general election, run against the other party’s candidate. Having a debate run by a hard core representative of the opposition party is not a good way to impress or sway your party’s voters or address issues of concern and importance to the conservative constituency. While failing utterly to impress one’s own voters it is also a golden opportunity for the opposition to pre-define a candidate or candidates before the general election ever starts in ways that are unfair and deceptive. Time enough for that in the general election.
Secondly we must consider that the President of the United States is arguably the most important public official in the world. The selection of such an important person should be treated with utmost seriousness and the voting public should expect that not only are the debates, both primary and general, serious events but also events that reflect the seriousness of the position and the seriousness of the process required to select the President. The Youtube format does far more to diminish and trivialize the presidency than anything else. Moreover it makes a clear statement to the serious voting public that candidates participating in such nonsense hold these serious voters in very low regard.
I cannot fathom what possible benefit Republican candidates think they derive during a PRIMARY in subjecting themselves to this sort of demeaning and trivializing non-sense. I left the Republican Party in total disgust at the apparent desire of the leadership of this party to try to appear more Democrat and liberal than the democrats. I’m a conservative and I expect conservative leadership. That means candidates who respect serious voters and who honor the importance of the office they seek by refusing to indulge in CNN/YouTube garbage.
Those who lend credibility to the youtube debate nonsense and to the trivialization of the process and the serious voters who would select them do not deserve our support. It is time for someone to step up and contrast themselves from the liberal field and that includes letting the democrats play these childish games in their own primaries while conservative candidate distinguish themselves from the liberals by elevating the pursuit of this most important office and refusing to stoop to this sort of nonsense.