horse of george

Hostility of conservative base to Christie an indication of why GOP may be doomed? What I mean by that is, they don't seem to understand or are willfully resistant to the understanding that given press and media bias it is absolutely vital to nominate people who play well in the media - it's as if the base hates left wing media so much that they reflexively feel that to make an appeal to it is necessarily to be corrupted by it - this is a very foolish conceit and very likely will doom the GOP if it can't be overcome. The conservative base hates Christie for the infamous Obama hug? They should wake up and realise that that was the act of a politician who knows exactly how the media works and how it affects voters perceptions and opinions - and given that most voters are guided by feelings rather than knowledge and coherent thoughts that is exactly the kind of candidate the GOP needs because media bias is most decidedly not going away and therefore you need to run candidates who have the skills and attributes required to overcome it rather than haplessly being left with nothing to do but express an embittered scorn for it. The base loves Palin - they think it's because of her conservative principles - wrong, it's because of the dynamite performance she gave at the 2008 convention, the camera loved her - I remember watching her and saying to the person I was with that if there's a brain to match that performance , then look out, this election just changed dramatically - but of course there wasn't a brain to match the performance and that impression rendered null and void the value of it - you put Hillary's intellect with that performance and it's Palin in 2012 and not Romney - and the GOP base needs to realise that wouldn't have been because of her staunch conservative principles, it would have been because of the performance.