Chris Matthews Illustrates Republicans’ Key Problem
MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, who had been a superb, hard-nosed print political reporter and bureau chief before he switched over to broadcast, had an exchange with GOP surrogate Rep. Eric Cantor which illustrates a problem Republicans are going to face this year: running as Republicans but not running as…Republicans.
In this clip, the machine-gun-talking Matthews is behaving as many old-school reporters would who believe in and insist upon getting a straight answer: he presses a key point and won’t accept a non-answer so he returns to his question repeatedly and won’t let his interview subject off the hook with spin or evasion. Matthews’ point — about Republicans trying not to really run as Republicans in an attempt to put some politically-healthy distance between themselves and the crew in the White House — is one the GOP may have to more effectively address as the campaign goes on.
On one radio talk show today the host said most of the blame is due to the Democratic Congress. That may not work as an convincing explanation this time, except to Rush and Sean fans.
Most telling Cantor quote: that it’s McCain and Obama who are on the ballot this year.
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3 Responses to “Chris Matthews Illustrates Republicans’ Key Problem”
Like Republicans give a s*** about my family.
no, they only give a sh*t about tellingyou how to run your family( well not ALL Republicans…..just the wingnut ones you suckle up to the Dobsons, Hagees, Robertsons, and Assemblies of God nutjobs)
Tweety was great yesterday! It was obvious to anyone watching that Rep Cantor was evading every attempt to pin him down about Bush and about the failure of the GOP to accept responsibility for what's happening in this country.
The truth is Republicans have preached family values while supporting policies that have eroded the standard of living of poor and middle-class families. They are loyal to multi-national corporations, the defense industry, Big Tobacco, the pharmeceutical industry and the banking industry. They have done nothing about global warming and nothing to keep deficit spending under control. They'd rather preach anti-gay marriage ideology, build a wall at the Mexican border and pass amendments that ban flag-burning than deal with America's real problems.