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While folks were 'having a laugh to Christine O'Donnell's 'Crucible'-like witchcraft denials', (and getting zero coverage of the even-more bizarre Senate candidate from South Carolina, a Democrat), candidates like Walker in Wisconsn and Kasich in Ohio and others were quietly preparing to win elections and make policies that represented a substantive challenge to the sources of Democratic Party power. Liberals as well as conservatives should be irritated at the tendency of the political media to obsess about some conservative (Michelle Bachman is this season's favorite) who makes statements that get the panties of liberals in a bunch, while paying much less attention to more substantive goings-on.
#1 Posted by Mark Richard, CJR on Thu 24 Mar 2011 at 12:48 PM