A reader e-mails:

Forgive me for not sympathizing entirely with the GOP’s plight, but after about half a century maybe they should have anticipated the media wouldn’t treat them fairly on this. Maybe they should rely on other outlets besides the MSM to get their message out. Like talk radio, radio and TV ads, newspaper ads, maybe purchasing TV time to get their message out. Yet they stick to letting the media shaft them, just like Bush did, and then act injured and surprised when it happens. For the sake of the country the GOP had better figure out the media’s against them, and come up with a way to go around it, instead of just passively accepting it.

Maybe they need to enlist Fred Thompson. There is something to that Gary Sinese idea. Short of being president and delivering primetime addresses, how do you get into homes?