The Republican Party's approach to granting media access to their most wingnut candidates is simple; don't. It worked for Sarah Palin. It became the campaign rule following Kentucky Senatorial candidate Rand Paul's implosion. And now Nevada's Senate candidate, Sharron Angle, talks only to "friendly" media like right wing talk radio and Fox News.
Yesterday, a local Nevada television reporter cornered Angle:
For being relatively new to Republican politics, Ms. Angle certainly has the GOP playbook down: Avoid any unfriendly or impartial media and when confronted with some crazy position (e.g., Palin's "I love AND hate the Bridge to Nowhere", Paul's "I'm OK with racism" and Angle's "My ideology is more important than the elderly") the GOP standard operating procedure is to cast the question as a "gotcha" attempt by biased media and avoid answering.
It really says a whole lot more about the media and voters willingness to accept their candidates refusal to admit their positions than it does the candidate's strategy itself. After all, the strategy seems to work.
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