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Re: Heye: Head east, McCain

wolfpackfan33 — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:57:22 -0400

are you delirious? there are THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS of registered democrats in eastern NC that will be showing up at the polls and voting republican including my whole family. not saying mccain will win, just stating what i know as fact. its looking like the democrats have a good chance to win almost all of the races except for governor.

Re: Heye: Head east, McCain

riverrd — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:27:37 -0400

The "myth" of the "jessecrats" is over! Not to be too blunt about it but those voters have changed their registration to repoblican or they have died! There are not enough of them to matter. Fear Not! The Day of Liberation is at Hand! Vote Democratic!

Re: Red and blue among the gray

FFC1304 — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 12:56:02 -0400

the comment deleted referred to the silly Laurinburg Exchange

Re: Red and blue among the gray

ryanteaguebeckwith — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 08:22:40 -0400

Profanity deleted.

— RTB

Re: Red and blue among the gray

blculbre — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 11:49:28 -0400

Finally empirical evidence that my hometown paper is true a pile of...

They proudly syndicate ann coulter...*shudder*

Re: Red and blue among the gray

ryanteaguebeckwith — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 11:05:00 -0400

In the past, Hood has said he's a liberal — in the Jeffersonian sense.

From "When did liberal become a bad word," N&O, May 21, 2006:

John Hood, president of the John Locke Foundation, a free-market-loving conservative think tank, wouldn't mind being called the dreaded L-word -- liberal.

But only in the 18th century, Thomas Jefferson sense of this time-worn political label. Back then, liberalism meant embracing laissez-faire economics and free trade; science-based enlightenment; democracy and the supreme rights of the individual; and religion without state sponsorship.

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But beyond America's borders, "conservative" has become a catch-all label applied to an array of often unsavory political characters, Hood said -- from the hard-line Communists of the Kremlin who wanted to preserve the trappings of the Soviet Union to Latin American dictators and the mullahs of Iran and their Islamic theocracy.

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And Saunders isn't the only Democrat who considers liberal to be a dirty word. Left-wing Democrats are also running away from the label, preferring to call themselves "progressive," another term from America's political past.

That's fine by Hood.

"If they don't want the term liberal, I want it back," he said.

— RTB

Re: Red and blue among the gray

clivestaples0 — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 11:01:56 -0400

Hmmm... if John Hood is being counted as a centrist, perhaps North Carolina newspaper Op-Eds are far more right-wing than even this study suggests.

Re: Red and blue among the gray

Proctor — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 11:00:49 -0400

As for some of our supposedly more liberal North Carolina newspaper editorial pages, it should be noted that "liberal newspapers" are often hard on other writers with liberal views when it comes to approving submissions for op-ed page submissions in the form of editorial essays and other writings.

The Charlotte Observer once ventured an explanation that since the newspaper itself was considered more liberal than conservative, then it ought to shade its letters to the editor and op-ed pieces to the more conservative point of view. The reasoning seems to be that if the newspaper already is expressing a liberal view on an issue, why publish other liberal opinions on the issue as expressed by other writers?

But newspaper editorial departments ought to be philosophy-neutral when it comes to deciding what letters and op-ed columns to publish. There should be an even mix of opinions as represented among the newspaper's readers and outside free-lance writers as to what appears on the editorial pages.

After working as an editorial writer at the Fayetteville Observer for two years in the 1970s (and being fortunate enough to win an editorial-writing prize from the N.C. Press Association), I have gone 3-for-several thousand in op-ed submissions to such major progressive or liberal dailies as the Greensboro News & Record, the Winston-Salem Journal, the Charlotte Observer and The (Raleigh) News & Observer.

But once, while registered as a Republican for a couple of years in a brazen effort to forge an editorial trail in the progressive traditions of Theodore Roosevelt, I was able to get a piece published right on the editorial page of my hometown Charlotte Observer complete with a mug shot! This was probably because I was writing "as a Republican" to a newspaper considered Democratic in its national and state political leanings and therefore could be considered "eligible for consideration."

But one's party affiliation and political philosophy should not be factors in whether an editorial essay can be considered for publication in a newspaper whether it considers itself liberal, conservatrive or somewhere in-between. Yet perhaps it can be said that when it comes to publishing differing or opposing views, our conservative papers in North Carolina are fairly liberal on this point while our liberal newspapers are adamantly conservative!

Re: Red and blue among the gray

Proctor — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 10:43:26 -0400

Give the gentlemanly and erudite John Hood the benefit of the doubt. He could try his luck playing center on one of the offensive lines for the Carolina Hurricanes, but probably he would want his hockey stick on the right side instead of the left.

And if the popular Hood were to be in on a power-play drive, do you think he would check the political leanings of his wingers before passing them the puck? Oops, just the identification of one of his teammates as a "left winger" might prompt Hood to try to skate in on goal himself...

David McKnight

Re: Dunn publisher likes Graham

FFC1304 — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 07:34:00 -0400

God, please help NC overcome severe democrackkk domination by enlightening the millions of clueless who continue to elect democrackkks in our once great state. Amen.

Re: Dunn publisher likes Graham

kimkim — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 15:29:41 -0400

Hey "A" - this reads like an endorsement to me...

Any R will do

Anglico — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 15:19:57 -0400

Adams has the hots for ANY Republican candidate. Just look at all the fawning over Fred Smith earlier this year. The whole article is nothing but a reprint of Smith's talking points.