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Where's all the punditry about GOP's need to downplay right-wing positions? | Media Matters for America - http://mediamatters.org/blog...
November 4, 2009
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"It seems whenever Democrats win an election, the media rushes to insist that they did it by running to the middle and not being "traditional Democrats." Just this week, Washington Post reporter Perry Bacon reminded us, "The candidates Democrats recruited in 2006 and 2008 are pro-life and pro-gun." (In fact, very few were pro-life.) Some creative conservative media figures even insisted that Barack Obama won election in 2008 by running as a "Reaganite" and "fiscal conservative." So I turned on my television a few hours ago, fully to hear cable news talkers saying that yes, Republicans won last night, but they did so by running to the center and downplaying traditional Republican positions."
- Steven Perez
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The truth is, when Republicans get elected, they vote party line on all Republican positions. There's no such thing as a moderate Republican --- those went the way of energy conservation.
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