Roger:

The LA Times and the entire MSM is trying to do anything but give Bush his due. They are trying to paint Bush as a minority leader even though he got a majority of the voting population. By making the insipid point that he failed at getting past his base they try to keep the illusion that the Times still speaks for the majority of the country. I have been reading the LA Times for my entire life, much of my political life I was a rabid Democrat. They are out of touch with most of the country. They speak from on high with the certainty that they represent what the bulk of America wants when in reality they represent a small sliver of the population. It’s ok to not swim with the tide and to stick up for what you believe but the Times is so arrogant and ignorant that they can’t read the tea leaves and realize that they are the minority view and that the people who disagree with them are the majority. The news and editorial sections are far left and the calendar(entertainment) and the book review sections are in the Mother Jones spectrum of the political world. My sister still gives me her old Mother Jones issue in a vain attempt to bring me back to the fold. I laugh mostly but at least they realize that they are a small portion of America. Browstein and the Times are isolated from reality they don’t have any idea how out on the fringe they are.