West Wing Election

[No more McShame]

You know a lot about the show.  I liked it and used to watch it a lot despite it's obvious Democratic bias until Bartlett's reelection campaign.  The fact that the Republican nominee was played by Barbara Streisand's husband was over the line for me!   I really didn't like how he was protrayed.

[No more McShame]

I am half expecting a run by Pat Butler as an independent, far-right spoiler to try and hurt Vinik.

I still say Leo was a bad VP choice.  He is not known to people outside the party in any part of the nation, has no history of winning elections, is in poor health, failed to control Santos during the DNC, and has made some very poor decisions recently.

The candidate descriptions are excellent.  They would look great on a West Wing web site describing the candidates.

On how the show has treated Republicans: it has been very nice to individuals, but often portrayed the party as the villains of the show.  This was especially true in the early seasons.  It began changing after the election of Bush and really changed for a while after 9-11.  It crept back in but was all but entirely gone in this last season.

There are Republican individuals who have been protrayed sympatheticly and of course the Republican Party will be protrayed as the villian in a Democratic White House, but I thought the character of the Republican nominee for President put all of the stereotypes together into a buffoon who wouldn't politically survive in either party.