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Agree especially with the bolded parts. This is why I'm a conservative republican ... Liberal ideology with it's emotional rantings leave me high and dry. Conservative ideas tend to be more common sense and less emotionally driven.
Thanks, but conservative ideas in practice have been just as bad. You've had tremendous republican control of the government 2002 - 2006, and what has been accomplished? Government spending went up, no deregulation was accomplished, civil liberties were degraded even further, separation of church and state declined, Sarbanes-Oxley, the "ownership society" artificial housing bubble, corruption, unrestricted executive power, etc, etc, etc. Oh, and a multi-trillion-dollar war based on lies, which all main-steam media, not just conservative talk radio, defended 100% when it mattered. In terms of public perception, Bush and modern conservatism has done more damage to the cause of free trade and capitalism than any lefty ever could have! And the way Ron Paul has been mistreated during the 2008 primaries has put the final nail in the conservative coffin as far as I'm concerned!
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Savage is the only one worth a darn! He is hilarious and often right on the money. He should not be lumped in with the Leprohan, Hush Bimbo, and Sean Vanity!
Thanks, but conservative ideas in practice have been just as bad. You've had tremendous republican control of the government 2002 - 2006, and what has been accomplished? Government spending went up, no deregulation was accomplished, civil liberties were degraded even further, separation of church and state declined, Sarbanes-Oxley, the "ownership society" artificial housing bubble, corruption, unrestricted executive power, etc, etc, etc. Oh, and a multi-trillion-dollar war based on lies, which all main-steam media, not just conservative talk radio, defended 100% when it mattered. In terms of public perception, Bush has done more damage to the cause of free trade and capitalism than any lefty ever could have!
i am in no way defending the iraq war, but to be fair the bailouts (engineered by the democratic party) cost more than the entire iraq war. in fact, crunching the inflation adjusted numbers, we find the bailout has cost more than all of these big budget government expenditures – combined:
Oh, forgot about those. But many republicans supported the bailouts as well, including the executive branch... The bottom line is this: all government is bad, not just its left brand or its right brand.
I was wondering yesterday why liberal talk radio is never nearly as successful as conservative talk radio. Do liberals prefer other media to the talk radio format, or does NPR suffice for most? I'd love to hear any answers from liberals or conservatives.
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One might reasonably ask, why is talk radio the only medium where conservatives succeed? What's special about radio? I have TV, print, the Internet, and radio from where I can get information. Of all of those, radio is the least effective means to reach me. I only listen when in the car and I only drive about 6,000 miles a year.
Radio is now often the medium of choice for a persons daily news. They listen at work (and perhaps stream on the Internet). The listen in the car (and now with Satellite radio - even more selections). Newspaper circulations are down nationwide. TV viewership (news) gives only limited news as their (the networks) times are limited.
As for Liberal Radio - they actually have a variety of talk show hosts on Sirrius including Randi Rhodes, Ed Schultz etc.
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IMO it's because the dems think for themselves and do not need some blowhard on the radio telling them what to think,unlike the neoCONS who wander around lost without their talk show "entertainers".
IMO it's because the dems think for themselves and do not need some blowhard on the radio telling them what to think,unlike the neoCONS who wander around lost without their talk show "entertainers".
yeah--dems need visual stimuli to tell them what to think. They are to stupid to think on thier own, so they need fools like Al Franken and Micael Moore to provide them with visual propoganda
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