From liberal debate moderators held on liberal networks to endorsements by liberal newspapers, it appears all anyone on the right needs to do is to listen to people who share none of their values to decide what issues are important and who they should vote for:

Clinton and McCain Win Big Newspaper Endorsements

DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) – Republican John McCain and Democrat Hillary Clinton got a boost to their campaigns for presidential nominations from an influential newspaper on Sunday despite setbacks in opinion polls.

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The Des Moines Register, Iowa’s largest newspaper, endorsed the two candidates for the fast-approaching Iowa caucuses, calling them the best prepared and most tested of the White House contenders.

Now maybe the editorial staff of the Des Moines Register was watching a debate sponsored by a different Des Moines Register than the one I saw as John McCain didn’t even crack the top 5. Which begs the question, “whose interest are they looking after?”

Also on Saturday, the Boston Globe said it would endorse McCain and Obama in the January 8 New Hampshire primary. “Obama has the leadership skills to reset the country’s reputation in the world,” the newspaper said.

On McCain, the newspaper said in an editorial, “the iconoclastic senator from Arizona has earned his reputation for straight talk by actually leveling with voters, even at significant political expense.”

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‘‘McCain’s views differ from those of this editorial page in a variety of ways. Yet McCain’s honesty has served him well,” the board wrote. “As a lawmaker and as a candidate, he has done more than his share to transcend partisanship and promote an honest discussion of the problems facing the United States. He deserves the opportunity to represent his party in November’s election.”

Translation: We don’t agree with McCain on anything and though he’s honest and non-partisan we feel he is a totally unelectable candidate to go up against our man, Obama, who should be elected because he has real “leadership skills”.

THE FIRST American president of the 21st century has not appreciated the intricate realities of our age. The next president must. The most sobering challenges that face this country – terrorism, climate change, disease pandemics – are global. America needs a president with an intuitive sense of the wider world, with all its perils and opportunities. Senator Barack Obama of Illinois has this understanding at his core.

Climate change matters more to Americans than Illegal Immigration, the rising military threat from China and a reconstituted Russia, crime, education, and taxes?

When reading the Boston Globes’ specific endorsements, they are saying that McCain should be allowed to be the Republican nominee but they are endorsing Obama for President. Having McCain on the Republican side keeps a pro-illegals, 11th Commandment breaking “iconoclast” who:

Of all the party’s candidates, McCain has the greatest potential appeal to independent voters.The Arizona senator is running for president at a treacherous time. Iraq is in flames.

The question that matters not to Boston’s Phil-Obamic Orchestra is that McCain does not appeal to Republican voters at all. So who cares about Independents?

How’s that for mud in your eye, Senator McCain? A one-term nobody who thinks that smiling all of the time and that the greatest solution to all of the real world’s problems is “hope” gets affirmative actioned above you. President Obama is going to walk into a room with Baby Assad, Kim Jong-Il, Hu Jintao, Hugo Chavez, Vladimir Putin, Mugabe, or Uribe flash his toothy grin and they are going to fix our lopsided trade deficit, stop selling nukes to the Iranians, supporting genocide in the Sudan and stop exporting terrorism against our interests and allies by sheer virtue of his parents being from different races.

These mancrushes unserious voters, vidiots, and old media-types develop for photogenic candidates should be reserved for housewives and little girls.

Is the fix in yet?

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