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njlauren -> RE: Fox News "Liberal" (3/24/2013 7:14:39 PM)
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They basically want the loony right agenda, the tea party/birther/fundy Christian/anti intellectual-Sarah Palin brand of things, and the point is, Fox News knows, like the GOP does, that they are in deep trouble. They have a major branding problem, they let the extreme right take over, and today they are known by many people as the party of intolerance and rednecks. They may sweep all the farm belt states, the rural states and the south, but elsewhere they are in trouble. It is no big deal getting elected on a loony right platform in Alabama, it doesn't work nationally. They turn off independents, they turn off women, they turn off young people almost completely, and they have turned off hispanics, and their lame attempt at trying to come up with immigration reform is going to be seen as it is, bald political posturing to try and get non cuban hispanics to vote for them.
The whole anti obama/just say no to everything doesn't work, and the continued reliance on a platform that government doesn't know anything, business is God and knows everything, we need to get rid of regulation, fails with most people.
If I had their demographics, I would be worried, too...it is basically on a national level the party of angry, older, white rural people, and while they may love trying to dismiss Obama as a Muslim, and fighting over same sex marriage and abortion and guns, very few other people do. In the whole argument about guns, what is left out is that only 35% of Americans own guns, yet it is a major campaign issue, one fraught with danger..What this also about is small town, rural america, trying to prove they are relevant politically, and what this shows is, they aren't. If it weren't for the vagueries of the constitution, having a senate and electoral college, the GOP would have a hard time with anything, they might have the house (since house districts can and are gamed), but without the electoral college and the 2 senators/state, the GOP would have imploded by now.
What this shows is how closely Fox news is tied to the GOP (duh, I know)..the GOP comes out with a pm on the last election, and talk about moderating positions on some things, and suddenly Fox News isn't pleasing the screamers and extremists. I kind of hope the GOP ignores this and keeps wit the idea the right wing proposes, that the problem is they aren' conservative enough, and they nominate someone like Rick Santorum or Michelle Bachman, and watch them become the joke party.
In many ways this is sad, because having two parties with different ideas, but willing to compromise, gets things done. The GOP alas is in charge of the loony right, the John Birch Society/fundamentalist Christian/pseudo populist, William Jennings Bryan farm belt ideology, that Goldwater and Buckley called 'the loony right"..it is part of the old Democratic coalition, that Mencken called the KKK branch of the Democratic party.
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