Ritchie runs for the nomination during his final term as Ritchie is assumed to be the official Republican nominee after the episode "Ritchie's campaign staff show their inexperience when (in "The Ritchie campaign retaliates with its own behind-the-scenes political maneuver. From the end of season 2 all the way through the beginning of season 4, we're told that the election is going to be ridiculously close and that the Republicans picked the right candidate to go against Bartlet...until the debate when Bartlet wipes the floor with Ritchie and then goes on to win the election in a landslide.It wasn't just that Sorkin made the opposition intentionally weak for the heroes to triumph.
Gun Control Laws by ElwoodDowdJr. u/D33p5t3r. Amy and Mrs Bartlet - Save Me by idamenzel. it wasn't a comment on republicans. It was commentary on the new generation of politician, and the electorate giving them creedance and votes.
3 years ago. The characterization of Ritchie also had the added detriment of creating a weak story for the election. r/thewestwing: Reddit's home for one of the greatest television series, NBC's The West Wing. 2:29. West Wing - Crime - Boy I Don't Know.mpg by jrobb101. 1:06 . User account menu. 2:46. Posted by. There are a few other cases of Sorkin writing Republican characters as punching bags, Toby's "NEA" speech in S1 is another example.Sometimes Sorkin's writing suffers from his politics, and he makes the opposition seem intentionally weak for our heroes to triumph.In this way, and perhaps only this time, I prefer the Post Sorkin years, with the more "on equal footing" stances of Sen. Vinic and Rep. Santos.Eh, there are many examples of good and bad conservatives and liberals in TWW. It's the way the President flicks the lighter to the Secret Service agent at the end, that makes the scene.An underrated aspect of that moment is the way the agent catches the lighter like he's done it before.Dissenting Opinion: I hated that scene and was disappointed by the writing for Gov. 2:22. I also think he has great respect for "the system", as it were, and both parties in it. You can get away with that running statewide, but not nationally. A decision is handed down that there will be two debates using rules that do not allow for back-and-forth exchanges, despite Bartlet's wishes. West Wing - That's when I decided to kick your ass - YouTube Let Barlet Be Bartlet ending !! Richie wasn't a bad person because he was conservative, he was a bad person because he was willfully ignorant and pandering to the basest, most simplistic aspects of the right in an effort to win an election.Counter opinion: many of us were annoyed at how far Sorkin had to bend over backwards to make people like Ainsely Hayes and the gay republican and Matthew Perry's character sound believably heroic and just while being ardently/unwaveringly conservative.Also showing a Rick Perry-type person running as the Republican Candidate against, yeah, a romanticized version of a Democrat wasn't Sorkin being biased in a way that detracted from the show.The comment was on the kind of person that more and more commonly runs for office, and that we shouldn't be intimidated by smart, in fact we should strive for it.
At this point Bartlet leaves, warning Ritchie "in the future, if you're wondering, 'Crime. The fact that he was republican was a necessity. It demonstrated that in a real moment, no time to rehearse, and one-on-one with Bartlet, Ritchie was using stock phrases. Sorkin could never write a convincing Republican. 71. One moment where he couldn't name an Executive Department immediately ended his chances of being President.