# Conservatives hold GOP feet to the fire
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservatives-hold-gop-feet-to-the-fire/727233
**Category:** Great Debates
**Created:** [August 7, 2015, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservatives-hold-gop-feet-to-the-fire/727233 "2015-08-07T12:39:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@cornopean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornopean)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2015, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservatives-hold-gop-feet-to-the-fire/727233/61 "2015-08-08T18:02:53Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#):
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> So for years conservatives tell us how Fox is fair and balanced as opposed to the other guys who have a liberal bias. So they host a debate and now they say “Hey look! OUR network was tough on OUR guys!” So make up your mind- is Fox an unbiased news source and therefore should be expected to ask tough questions of Republicans or is Fox a shill for your party and deserves praise for being tough on it?
Fox clearly has a right-wing perspective most of the time. You can still be fair and balanced even though you are right or left-wing. no one is perfectly free of biases.
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### Author:  [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2015, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservatives-hold-gop-feet-to-the-fire/727233/62 "2015-08-08T18:11:54Z")
> [@cornopean](#):
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> Fox clearly has a right-wing perspective most of the time. You can still be fair and balanced even though you are right or left-wing. no one is perfectly free of biases.
Oh, you _can_. But Fox News isn’t. Clearly, undeniably, incontrovertibly, emphatically is not.
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2015, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservatives-hold-gop-feet-to-the-fire/727233/63 "2015-08-08T18:15:45Z")
> [@cornopean](#):
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> Fox clearly has a right-wing perspective most of the time. You can still be fair and balanced even though you are right or left-wing. no one is perfectly free of biases.
And a lunatic far-right perspective the rest of the time.
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### Author:  [@Flyer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flyer)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2015, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservatives-hold-gop-feet-to-the-fire/727233/64 "2015-08-08T18:43:34Z")
> [@Renee](#):
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> You are aware that a significant portion of Republicans believe Obama is the litteral antichrist, right?
#1, that’s absolutely meaningless. Some people believed that Ronald Wilson Reagan was the Antichrist.
Pick any major political figure from the past 50 years, and you probably can find somebody who considered that person to be the literal Antichrist.
#2, if anybody said something like that about liberals, it would be considered hate speech in some circles.
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### Author:  [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2015, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservatives-hold-gop-feet-to-the-fire/727233/65 "2015-08-08T19:00:01Z")
> [@Flyer](#):
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> #1, that’s absolutely meaningless. Some people believed that Ronald Wilson Reagan was the Antichrist.
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> Pick any major political figure from the past 50 years, and you probably can find somebody who considered that person to be the literal Antichrist.
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> #2, if anybody said something like that about liberals, it would be considered hate speech in some circles.
Are “liberals” (however you define it) inclined to think there _is_ a literal AntiChrist? You’re making the distinction between _literal AntiChrist_ and _person one thinks is really really bad_, right?
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### Author:  [@sqweels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sqweels)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2015, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservatives-hold-gop-feet-to-the-fire/727233/66 "2015-08-08T20:21:20Z")
Did any of the moderators ask questions designed to see if a candidates views were a bit too far to the right? Or if their conservatism is liable to get in the way of their decision making when in office?
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### Author:  [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2015, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservatives-hold-gop-feet-to-the-fire/727233/67 "2015-08-08T20:25:35Z")
Too far to the right? Too conservative? Too virtuous?
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### Author:  [@sqweels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sqweels)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2015, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservatives-hold-gop-feet-to-the-fire/727233/68 "2015-08-08T20:54:47Z")
> [@elucidator](#):
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> Too far to the right? Too conservative? Too virtuous?
How’s that?
Of course I doubt if anyone at Fox believes there’s any such thing as being too conservative, but making sure we don’t put a right-wing extremist into power ought to be a major concern, and so these are the kind of tough questions that need to be asked.
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