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...nation into Iraq in the first place. Between 2001 and 2003, Bush had a golden opportunity to unite and lead our country—not to mention the broader international community—towards a common goal with a shared purpose. Instead, Bush chose to pander to his base with divisive rhetoric and action. Judging from her convention speech, one can only conclude that a Palin administration would follow a disconcertingly similar path...
...heat of a campaign, Schmidt understood that outrage could cut through the news clutter like a buzz saw. It didn't matter much if the outrage was fueled by fact - better if it was fueled by emotion, which would tweak the fury of his base, leading to exciting exchanges on cable television and fresh chatter around the watercooler. Unlike health care or foreign policy, the emotional charge of outrage has a magnetic effect; voters are forced to take sides and respond, shifting the debate...
...Others suggest that Chávez may be trying to whip up his base in advance of local and state elections in November. He and his party desperately need a strong showing in order to reverse the unusual downward political slide he's experienced since losing a national referendum last year in which he sought to expand his socialist projects and eliminate presidential term limits...
Palin still has plenty of questions to answer, and while she has basked in mostly adoring reviews from the conservative base, she is also struggling to deflect the scrutiny of her record in office. Though it insists she is up to the job of Vice President, the campaign denied all news interview requests for nearly two weeks after she joined the ticket. She regards reporters warily and from a distance, except for a brief meet and greet on her campaign plane that was strictly off the record. Onstage, she tells the same teleprompter jokes every day, and her husband Todd...
...fair, it's not only Republicans who run against the media. In the primary, Obama and his rivals all but boycotted Fox News, a blatant pander to members of their party's base who don't like Fox's conservative hosts. And Obama's partisans cried bias over an ABC debate during the primaries that focused heavily on Jeremiah Wright and was moderated by ... Gibson, who just got the nod from Palin...