Tea party candidates

I have a simple question. Are the tea party wackos, sorry, candidates Paul, Angle, Miller and O'Donnell, and might as well toss in Bruer, going to be able to get elected without having to face an mildly neutral press? Is that the lowest democracy can get? The press is at a low point, but they are supposed to weed out the wackos before they get this far. And it would not be difficult, let these people talk for more than a few minutes, with a real follow up question, and they should melt like Margaret Mitchell getting off the plane in Seattle. So the press has been stymied by the mama gizzly press pattern, and meaningless most of the rest of the time, but will voters, actual voters, not polls or lamestream media (not used ironically, and it hurts a little) memes, vote for someone they don't know, who won't allow themselves to be vetted by sanity? Will the country survive until the object lesson is learned that you need to pay attention, at least a little bit? I was hoping the election of Barack Obama would bring a respect for intelligence back into American life, but with news rooms run by program execs who go for the shiniest objects, I have been proven wrong.

I forgot, who was I complaining about in this?

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