Who's the one candidate the media is not sliming? Why, it's the Mittster.

The media, unfortunately, uses the SludgeReport as their barometer of the political zeitgest and regularly picks up stories from his site and runs with them, both on television and in print.

Self-loathing Matt Drudge, as we all know, has no love lost for any of the Democrats, but has a special place of hatred in his psychotic heart for the Clintons. Hence, almost daily, an unflattering picture of Hillary or a story designed to portray her as calculating and shrewish. He doesn't like Obama much better, but has held his fire, other than the occasional "Muslim" story, because Obama is not yet deemed a real threat to Republican hegemony. Drudge, of course, tried to destroy Edwards early on with the mansion story and the haircut "scandal."

On the Republican side, he has run small gotcha stories on both Giuliani and McCain, but has rarely laid a glove on Thompson or Romney. When Romney is pictured, it's always a flattering, presidential shot, against the backdrop of the American flag. When Hillary Clinton is pictured, it's always a bug-eyed shot depicting a crazed shrew.

Romney's "dog strapped to the car" story and the "hunting for varmints" story and his incessant, breathtaking flip flopping on almost every major issue of the day has received very little coverage from the mainstream media. Drudge ran the stories, but did not highlight them and buried them very quickly. The media followed his lead.

What we have as a result, just when Americans are about ready to start paying attention to the primary races, is a Republican frontrunner in Iowa and NH who is receiving virtually no critical coverage at all. Our frontrunners are bashed daily on the net and the electronic media, but Romney, who very well may end being the Republican nominee is being escorted into the limelight by the MSM, unscathed and unscarred.

We are walking RIGHT into the trap once again. We are all so busy cannibalizing each other, and the press is so busy trying to destroy Democrat's characters, that the man who may likely lead the GOP next fall is wending his way through the primary seasons virtually unblemished.

It's still relatively early. We still have time this fall and into the winter and early spring, if it looks like Romney is really emerging as the nominee, to highlight who this man is and present him to the American people as the calculating, rudderless, opportunistic, soulless, dishonest, dangerous politican that he really is.

But, we better take a few moments from eating each other alive and help start the ball rolling now, while the political season is still young. Once a perception has hardened in the public's eye, it is very difficult to reshape it. Matt Drudge and his MSM lapdogs will be trying very hard to introduce Mitt Romney in a very, very positive light. It is up to us to get on the ball NOW and thrown a wrench into their coronation process.

He is obviously the annointed one, at least over on the repugnant side.

Ironic, since I think he's probably the slimiest one of the bunch. He makes my skin crawl.

-chef-

knowing full well the uniformed will grab onto him down the road when he looks good and "talks good".

The corporomedia has left him alone, except for the dog story and that seems to have cycled out. Oh yeah, his shooting varmints illegally or whatever is down the rabbit hole, too.

McCain has been hanging in too, when he should be out of consideration.

Thanks for posting.

K & R, because we write off Romney or any of the other R candidates at our peril.

And, we have to figure out to critique our own candidates without mortally wounding their campaigns and doing the RW's work for it.

It's a matter of continuing to give them a chance to adjust and recognize if/when to make changes, they work for us, after all.

MKJ

little national MSM coverage, and most of it has been unflattering in tone, often focusing on his flip-flops or his Mormonism. While it's helpful to keep him down in national polls, he manages to do very well in the early states--apparently people like him better when they see him up close (he's the opposite of Thompson)--that doesn't bode well for us should he become the nominee. I've said that if he starts getting more favorable coverage, he will become tougher to beat. Right now McCain is getting a happy little "comeback" narrative, and Huckabee is being favorably promoted as the big "second-place winner", Thompson's press has died down to a low simmer, and Rudy's coverage is mixed--but Romney tends to get ignored. I can't decide if this ultimately helps or hurts us.