Does anyone think Hannity and Colmes are “buddies” and “comrades” and “really get along” when they’re off the set of their daily program?

When you throw together several people with clearly disparate personalities and perspectives (and egos), they’re generally NOT going “to get along” very well on a day-in-day-out basis.

Could there possibly be two people more distinctly different than Hasselbeck and O’Donnell?

O’Donnell’s original claim to fame was as a stand-up comic.  In recent years, she’s sounded more bitchy than comical.

In the end, who cares?

I’m of the opinion that politics ought to be eliminated on soccer mom shows such as The View, where women tune in to hear about the latest fad diet or the newest fashions.  Leave the political discourse to true news shows!  Who cares what Joy Behar thinks?  Does she even think?  She’s so blinded by her ultra liberal views, she can’t debate any issue fairly and intelligently!

Oh, just a high school teacher for 35 years!  Never cared to be in the limelight.  I’m simply not pretentious.  Funny, though, that you mention Rosie in your comment when I never mentioned her in mine.  Oh, and Don, I don’t keep track with money.  Money does NOT make the person or his/her character!  You need to grasp that!

Debbie, #2;

Your comment:

“She’s so blinded by her ultra liberal views, she can’t debate any issue fairly and intelligently!”

I think any reasonable person could arguably change the word “liberal” to “conservative” and apply your comment equally to Elizabeth Hasselbeck (who, at least to me, often comes across as a pissy little middle-schooler in the midst of a lunchroom hissy fit) ???

None of those ladies are the brightest (history, civic, or political) bulbs on the string – and they might better use their life experiences to deal with (as someone else said) “Soccer Mom issues”.

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I would agree with you regarding Elizabeth.  I make a point never to watch the show, but I’ve caught snippets on news programs.  Anyone who bases his/her vote on a candidate by what these women spew need to be pitied, and our electorate suffers because many of the naive DO take what they say as “the gospel.”  Real shame.  From the snippets I’ve seen, Behar is by far the most vitriolic and hateful.  She stepped in when Rosie stepped out, I guess.  I just never watch the show, so I can only go by what I’ve seen on other news shows.  I prefer shows with substance—not style without substance.  Not fluff!

Debbie, Post 5;

Your comment:

“… our electorate suffers because many of the naive DO take what they say as ‘the gospel’.”

I read an article in a professional journal after the 2004 election wherein the author and his associates reviewed an extensive opinion survey they completed on Election Day by questioning actual voters AFTER they had voted.

Their conclusion?  Based on the result of their survey (which had a LARGE number of respondents randomly selected from voting precincts all around the nation) – 73% of the voters surveyed DID NOT POSSESS SUFFICIENT ACCURATE INFORMATION on the candidates or the issues on which to legitimately base their vote.  73%!!!  (And, of course, whether one’s IQ is 75 or 175, or whether one is a high school drop-out or a PhD, is of no consequence insofar as the right to vote goes!)

Back in the early ‘90s, as a member of the American Management Association at the time, I received the results of a study that the association had completed – which, similarly, concluded that 73% of workers (white- and blue-collared) WERE NOT QUALIFIED for the jobs they held.  73%!!!

Pretty scary stuff.

I have read about similar studies, too.  I’m also sure the percentages of ill informed voters has increased from the 90’s.  Our electorate in the recent election was vastly made up of woefully uninformed voters on all the major issues and the candidates themselves.  I’ve maintained for years that in order to vote, we all should have to pass at least a basics civics exam.