Who's the one candidate the media is not sliming? Why, it's the Mittster.

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The media, unfortunately, uses the SludgeReport as their barometer of the political zeitgest and regularly picks up stories from his site and runs with them, both on television and in print.

Self-loathing Matt Drudge, as we all know, has no love lost for any of the Democrats, but has a special place of hatred in his psychotic heart for the Clintons. Hence, almost daily, an unflattering picture of Hillary or a story designed to portray her as calculating and shrewish. He doesn't like Obama much better, but has held his fire, other than the occasional "Muslim" story, because Obama is not yet deemed a real threat to Republican hegemony. Drudge, of course, tried to destroy Edwards early on with the mansion story and the haircut "scandal."

On the Republican side, he has run small gotcha stories on both Giuliani and McCain, but has rarely laid a glove on Thompson or Romney. When Romney is pictured, it's always a flattering, presidential shot, against the backdrop of the American flag. When Hillary Clinton is pictured, it's always a bug-eyed shot depicting a crazed shrew.

Romney's "dog strapped to the car" story and the "hunting for varmints" story and his incessant, breathtaking flip flopping on almost every major issue of the day has received very little coverage from the mainstream media. Drudge ran the stories, but did not highlight them and buried them very quickly. The media followed his lead.

What we have as a result, just when Americans are about ready to start paying attention to the primary races, is a Republican frontrunner in Iowa and NH who is receiving virtually no critical coverage at all. Our frontrunners are bashed daily on the net and the electronic media, but Romney, who very well may end being the Republican nominee is being escorted into the limelight by the MSM, unscathed and unscarred.

We are walking RIGHT into the trap once again. We are all so busy cannibalizing each other, and the press is so busy trying to destroy Democrat's characters, that the man who may likely lead the GOP next fall is wending his way through the primary seasons virtually unblemished.

It's still relatively early. We still have time this fall and into the winter and early spring, if it looks like Romney is really emerging as the nominee, to highlight who this man is and present him to the American people as the calculating, rudderless, opportunistic, soulless, dishonest, dangerous politican that he really is.

But, we better take a few moments from eating each other alive and help start the ball rolling now, while the political season is still young. Once a perception has hardened in the public's eye, it is very difficult to reshape it. Matt Drudge and his MSM lapdogs will be trying very hard to introduce Mitt Romney in a very, very positive light. It is up to us to get on the ball NOW and thrown a wrench into their coronation process.