Why Bother?

I have never suggested that Republican candidates boycott the Enemy Media altogether.  As I've said many a time, while the EM no longer has a monopoly, and never will again unless Obama wins in November and signs a Fairness Doctrine restoration into law next year, it's still dominant over the mainstream media (talk radio, center right magazines and the occassional like newspaper, the blogosphere).  Consequently, if GOPers are to reach the American electorate with the message of smaller government, lower taxes, and strong national defense and muscular foreign policy, they have little choice but to venture forth into the lions' dens as a matter of course.

But even with that stipulated, I still don't see any purpose to John Sith McCain subjecting himself and his wife to the airheaded demogogues of The View:

Listening to that "Should I be worried about becoming a slave" idiocy, it's difficult to believe that Whoopie Goldberg was ever cast in the role of Guinan, the ancient El Aurian who dispensed timeless wisdom to Captain Picard in many an episode of of Star Trek The Next Generation.  Indeed, I would think even the future alien hostess would be able to dispense chapter and verse to the malevolently empty-headed Whoopie on the text of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, and explain to her that if mid-twentieth century feminists wanted to impose abortion on demand on the country as a whole, the same process should have been utilized rather than extraconstitutionally hijacking the SCOTUS and turning it into an oligarchical Borg Collective.  Indeed, if Whoopie is genuinely concerned about being thrown into slavery, she should want the SCOTUS restored to its constitutional limitations, since the status quo is the only way such a scenario would ever be possible.

And Sailor's "I understand your point" line, which came while the equally malevolently airheaded View audience was wildly applauding Whoopie?  Teeth-gnashingly reminiscent of his appearance on Ellen Degeneres' program.  I suppose his Sarah Palin deflector shields will protect him from renewed base disaffection, but I have to wonder whether that show's demographic is really at all receptive to even considering the center-right message - and, if so, whether it might have been a better idea to send the Barracuda there instead.

Hey, if they're trying to get her booked on Oprah, why not The View?  Do their respective viewer demographics differ that much?  And wouldn't the fireworks with Whoopie have been worth the price of admission?