Friday, July 22, 2005

AlterNet: Readers Write: No Room for Moderate Republicans?: "Rose Aguilar's article about how moderate Republicans have been sidelined -- not only in the Supreme Court debate, but in many other policy areas of their party -- brought up a lot of comments from readers.

Aguilar observed that in the wake of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's resignation, the media focused almost entirely on the debate over abortion rights and Roe v. Wade. When the media only cites anti-choice groups like Focus on the Family, numerous pro-choice or pro-family planning Republican groups get ignored.

The writer also quoted Ann Stone, the national chair of Republicans for Choice: 'It is mind-boggling to me that the press only focuses on right-wingers. Is it just because sensationalism sells? When moderates try to do something, it might get attention on NPR or in the Los Angeles Times, but the press here in Washington is pretty much ignoring moderates.'"

(Via AlterNet.)