John LeBoutillier, Doug Schoen and Pat Caddell will analyze all things political on CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL on Monday @ 11 AM ET - on www.FoxNews.com

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Let’s be clear about something: the Democratic Left smells blood in the case of Rupert Murdoch and the English hacking scandal.

Why?

Because Murdoch and his American media entities – especially Fox News and the New York Post – have bedeviled the Left for years. These right-of-center news sources have gone into hard-left territory – TV news and the New York news market – and dominated not only in market share but also in setting the news agenda.

And they have made tons of dough – while the Left-leaning media are all losing money (declining ratings and readers and thus ad revenue) hand over fist in the recession.

So we are witnessing professional jealousy coupled with a brief moment of hope on the Left – hope that they can decapitate the leadership of the News Corporation. Indeed, if the Murdochs were no longer in charge of News Corporation, liberals would quickly permeate the entire organization, especially the politically vital Fox News Channel.

Fox News has become the base of the GOP, Tea Party and conservatism. Find me one right-of-center person in the USA who doesn’t look at it – at least a bit. Thus FNC is the rallying point for the Right; and the Left knows this. It drives them mad that CNN and MSNBC – both egregiously left-wing – have microscopic audiences and thus virtually no political clout whatsoever.

And the three broadcast networks – CBS, NBC and ABC – have declined in audience share, too, although they all remain left-of-center.

So the only avenue for Republican/Tea Party/conservative audiences to hear a non-leftist spin is talk radio – and Fox News. Period. That’s it.

No wonder the Left is salivating at Murdoch’s present troubles. If they take him out – and then get rid of Roger Ailes as the head of Fox News – and make no mistake about it: Roger is the man the Left really wants to get – then in their warped minds, they can again dominate the political agenda.

The “Fair and Balanced” slogan of Fox may not always be totally accurate; but it taps into something most news viewers have known for decades: prior to Fox, there was nothing fair or balanced about the so-called Mainstream Media. It was relentlessly liberal, unfair to conservatives, and warped to fit the left-wing political agenda that remains today way, way out of the American political mainstream.

So watch carefully in the next few days. If the FBI probe of News Corporation has legs – and if there is something there – then liberal Senators and Congressman are relentlessly going to savage Murdoch and Fox.

They see it as an opportunity to do what they have failed to do in the forum of public opinion and in most recent elections: win the hearts and minds of the American people.

They would prefer to rig the debate by depriving half of America of a voice for their views and opinions.

John LeBoutillier will be on CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL on Foxnews.com - live - at 11AM East Coast Time on Monday morning.

Just go to www.foxnews.com a few minutes before 11 AM, get your volume all set, grab something to drink and then watch the best half hour political show on TV. Pat Caddell and Doug Schoen and JLeB will analyze all things political.

And please let us know your thoughts about the show.

As we head toward crunch time in the all-important Debt Ceiling negotiation, the GOP’s Tea Party-inspired hard-line position has already yielded potentially game-changing concessions on Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid spending from President Obama and the Democrats – all without giving up a thing!

The GOP has done this by maintaining a hard line on “no new net revenues.” Faced with this position, the Democrats have continually retreated and agreed to even more cuts in the above-mentioned entitlement programs.

As of today, it is being leaked by the White House that President Obama wants a $4 trillion deal – as opposed to the $2 trillion currently being discussed. The word “big” came out of the President’s mouth yesterday at his White House press availability.

Plus, there was a secret White House meeting last weekend with the Speaker.

Putting all of this together leads us to the following thoughts:

1. There will be a deal of some sort by the end of July; it may also not be a short-term can-kicker. Who wants this to be repeated next year in the middle of an election?

2. The GOP has performed magnificently up until now – with one big but: they have to come off their no-revenue-increase position at the last minute of the deal;

3. Politically it is crazy to be painted as the party that not only cut/eliminated/changed Medicare in the Ryan budget, but now dug in its heals on saving tax breaks and loopholes for uber-rich billionaires and corporations.

4. We on the Right want to be for lower taxes for the middle and working class - not for the super-rich or Big Corporations!

5. We need more populism – and less of this stuck-in-the-mud Grover Norquist tax pledge nonsense.

6. The GOP in the House and Senate helped create this massive National Debt with their ungodly spending spree with G.W. Bush in the 2001-2007 period: two unpaid-for-wars, an un-necessary tax cut, prescription drug entitlements and massive annual deficit spending. So their newfound fiscal conservatism is a joke.

Conclusion: if the GOP doesn’t come off this tax position, they will be painted as “in the tank for the rich,” which along with their previous Medicare vote, will make them untenable in the 2012 elections - especially among the crucial bloc of independent voters.

However, if they do make a deal with new revenues coming from closing loopholes and taxing the very-rich, there can be a real debt-reduction deal that helps revive our moribund economy.

That deal is up to the GOP and Tea Party: squeeze everything they can from the Democrats – and then give in a bit on taxing the rich.

That’s good economics – and great politics.

John LeBoutillier will be on CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL on Foxnews.com - live - at 11AM East Coast Time on Monday morning.

Just go to www.foxnews.com a few minutes before 11 AM, get your volume all set, grab something to drink and then watch the best half hour political show on TV. Pat Caddell and Doug Schoen and JLeB will analyze all things political.

And please let us know your thoughts about the show.

Since the Great Depression, we have not seen a political and societal situation as gloomy, pessimistic and angst-ridden as today.

All the polling and research show disturbing – and previously unheard-of – thoughts permeating the American public:

• More people today believe that the gap between the government and the governed is wider now than at any time since the American Revolution.

• 70% believe the US is on the “wrong track.”

• 44% believe we are back in a recession.

• A huge majority believe the 2007-2008 financial collapse was due to criminal behavior – either or on Wall Street and/or inside the federal government or as pollster Doug Schoen puts it, “a rigged game.” Yet no one has been prosecuted for it!

In sum, the American people are ripe for a Big Change in 2012.

If present conditions persist, how can the people possibly keep the same government in power?

Answer: they can’t. And won’t.

But then comes this question: what will happen? Who will emerge to bring about the change – the real - not cosmetic change – people will be demanding?

As notable pollster/campaign adviser Pat Caddell said yesterday, “We are in a pre-revolutionary moment.”

The “revolution” he is talking about is the “governed” are about to blow against their government – and the entire so-called establishment, i.e. the media establishment, the financial establishment including Wall Street and, of course, the DC-Beltway political establishment of both parties.

Here is a fascinating look at the present divide between the people and the establishment: pollster Scott Rasmussen on June 1 of this year asked people to agree or to disagree with this statement:

“The gap between Americans who want to govern themselves and politicians who want to rule over them is now as big as the gap between the American colonies and England during the 18th Century.”

65% of likely GOP voters agree with this statement; 55% of independent voters agree with it. Overall 45% of all likely voters agree with it.

But the Political Class?

Zero per cent agree with it!

That says it all, doesn’t it?

This gap today between this Political Class and the grass roots Americans is illustrated today by the foisting on us of Jon Huntsman, the former Utah governor who worked for and basically endorsed Obama.

Why do we want this man? Who wants him?

We do not want him – the GOP Political Class wants him.

So we now have two Mormons who believe in nationally mandated health care (RomneyCare and Huntsman privately praised ObamaCare aboard Air Force One to Obama), and who also believe in man-made global warming. And the Tea Party Movement can’t stand either man.

How can either possibly represent the conservative movement and the Republican Party?

Yet our establishment is lining up behind these two.

No wonder the real race for 2012 is to see who is the outsider who comes along and takes on the Establishment and the Political Class.

That person will likely be our next President of the United States.

JOHN LEBOUTILLIER WILL BE ON IMUS IN THE MORNING TOMORROW - TUESDAY, JUNE 21ST. - AT 6:35 AM EAST COAST TIME ON A RADIO STATION NEAR YOU AND ON THE FOX BUSINESS NETWORK.