We agree on this, too: “My point then is that the Congressional races are below the media radar, even the local media, and so the “wing-nuttery” of the Republican Candidates will not be noticed in their barrage of positive advertisements.”

As I wrote longwindedly in my piece: “Only in those areas of the country dominated by Fox News and AM radio right-wing talkers, and not much counter-balancing local media, where the Teabaggers could work without serious scrutiny, did they score wins, mostly against Blue Dog Dems.”

How do we fight back? That’s a good quesrion, but I think after a year of the GOP running things even further into the ground, we won’t have to fight much; like Junior’s sliding polls, it will become obvious to the majority that what they are hearing from the Right-Wing Noisemakers doesn’t comport with their miserable Depression-era reality. I think Obama might lose next time around if he ‘stays the course’ of weak ‘bipartisan’ caving to the GOP he’s been on, but so will the GOP and the Blue Dogs Dems, mayhap opening up the field for real progressives and even true conservatives to take office.

Perhaps we’ll actually get change we can believe in, but not in the way Obama intended.

My point then is that the Congressional races are below the media radar, even the local media, and so the “wing-nuttery” of the Republican Candidates will not be noticed in their barrage of positive advertisements.

How do we fight that? Are we doomed to ever more “Republi-Corp” Congressmen?

What does it say about America & Americans when you can assert that Fox has mis-informed a significant proportion of the voters?

Also, in California, non-Teabagging Republicans Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina outspent Barbara Boxer and Jerry Brown by wide margins, and Whitman’s TV ads were 24/7 for the last couple of months before the election. How could Republicans who could afford a lot of TV time lose in a state that installed Schwarzenfluffer as governor? I think it was four things: a) The state is just ‘Republicaned out’; b) Whitman’s crappy, self-serving treatment of her Latina housekeeper; c) Fiorina’s condescending ‘just folks’ speech after drinking a shot of tequila at an Hispanic function; d) Jerry Brown’s brilliant last-minute TV ads showing Whitman parroting Ah-nuld word-for-word. (The Obama DeeCee Dems could learn something from Brown’s campaign.)

How did the TARP bailouts, etc, become Obama’s problem? By the magic of Fox Noose mendacity, mostly.

Additionally the Republicans are much more adept at getting the slogans out. The stimulus plan, the bank bailouts, these were Bush policies. How did they pass them to the Democrats?