Ignoring the Invasion by Chip McLean

"Perhaps it was because of the format, perhaps it was due to the number of candidates, but this past Thursday’s Republican “debate” wasn’t so much a debate as it was a sound bite circus.
For those of us hoping that illegal immigration would be raised as a major issue facing our nation, the evening was a thorough disappointment. Moderator Chris Matthews was determined to stay away from the issue – and equally determined to keep the camera on John McCain, Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney.
The rules were not enforced evenhandedly by Matthews, as the “Big Three” were blatantly given extra face time by continually being allowed to exceed the sixty second time limit, while the rest of the field were summarily silenced while attempting to finish their answers.
Of course there’s a reason for focusing on those three darlings of the liberal press - the MSM doesn’t want to see a true conservative head up the Republican ticket because they know someone meeting that criteria will fire up the conservative base, thus turning out voters. But that’s the goal of the MSM – help nominate a warm, fuzzy GOP centrist, and then quickly desert him in order to help elect a liberal Democrat."

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