Well, of course. Ever since Reagan, the prez candidate has been a spokesmodel. His job is to say the right things so as to keep 50.1% of the people from getting mad enough to matter, while the players run things.
Okay, to back off on the cynicism here a bit... (Watching C-SPAN is bad for one's health) between Tom "making homosexuality legal will doom us to extinction" DeLay, Bill "the powerful must be protected from the powerless" Frist, Tom "that's an awful nice courthouse there, hate to see anything bad happen to it" DeLay, Rick "Santorum" Santorum, and the whole propaganda machine that pushed 97% of new judge nominees through and then held a gun to the system of checks and balances for the other 3%, including the latest judge who appears to be (no shit) an honest-to-pete frothing Randroid...
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Date: 2005-06-10 07:55 pm (UTC)Okay, to back off on the cynicism here a bit... (Watching C-SPAN is bad for one's health) between Tom "making homosexuality legal will doom us to extinction" DeLay, Bill "the powerful must be protected from the powerless" Frist, Tom "that's an awful nice courthouse there, hate to see anything bad happen to it" DeLay, Rick "Santorum" Santorum, and the whole propaganda machine that pushed 97% of new judge nominees through and then held a gun to the system of checks and balances for the other 3%, including the latest judge who appears to be (no shit) an honest-to-pete frothing Randroid...
...I'd say you have a point.