WRIGHT DEBATES MATTHEWS PUNDITS SECONDS AFTER THEIR BROADCAST: don't you wish this could have happened?
Feb 18: I knew CHRIS MATTHEWS and his HARDBALL show could get us off FOX...and it didn't take long. Today he had a couple of really predictably misguided pundits...RYAN LIZZA of THE NEW YORKER and that most intellectually challenged of all punditstocracy...a Republican Strategist. In this case, a totally lost individual named Ron Christie...not that it mattered. A couple of highlights..and how Wright would have responded:
LIZZA: "No candidate is more perfectly positioned to re-invent the Republican party than John McCain."
WRIGHT--yeah, and we don’t’ want that kind of re-invention...though I am sure you would love to see the GOP re-invented in the McCain mold.
LIZZA: "His personality is so much of the appeal…the straight talking. He’s had to become totally doctrinaire on tax cuts. That’s deadly."
WRIGHT: If by deadly, you mean that the doctrine works...then indeed. Tax cuts do work. McCain's personality does not. And he only voted against the tax cuts because he was having a tantrum over Bush beating him in the 2000 primaries. Give me doctrinaire over childish pouting any day. Especially if the doctrine works.
RON CHRISTIE: "George Bush 41 is liked by the conservatives. I think it's very important that Bush 41 endorsed John McCain today. He is widely considered an establishment member of the party."
WRIGHT: uh, Mr. Christie...the problem was never the establishment...it was us, out here in the real world...you know...the base conservatives...
CHRISTIE:"He is very well respected, post presidency."
WRIGHT: which is a shame...because he was such a moderate he wasn't that well respected DURING his presidency. That's the point.
CHRISTIE:--answering Matthews "A lot of people like President Bush 41. Yes, the right wingers like Bush 41. Yes they do."
WRIGHT: did you inhale?
CHRISTIE: "This (the McCain win is a win for) the President Bush 43 wing of the party…the pro life, pro cutting taxes…pro national defense…party."
WRIGHT: and you think this because McCain and Bush and Bush supporters are so chummy?
CHRISTIE: "For Senator McCain to win, he’s got to attract the independents and some of the democrats who are looking for an alternative…. I don’t think a more conservative candidate on our side would have as good a chance of winning."
WRIGHT: right...more conservative like, say, Reagan.
--is there ANY DOUBT that the Republican National Committee..full of folks misguided like Rob Christie quoted above...is out of touch and needs a total make-over? Nope. No doubt.
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