Why a Republican response for the '96 State Of The Union?

[Bandit3 the Worker]

Why did the networks air a Republican response to Clinton's 1996 State Of The Union speech?

The speech itself was conservative. Why a conservative response to a conservative speech?

Were there any stations that had the guts to air a liberal response, as they should have done? If I was a station manager, I would have had the network feed cut after the speech so a liberal response could be provided instead of more conservative crap.

[Bandit3 the Worker]

Because this is a two party country, whether we like that or not.

Then Clinton should have been giving us an alternative to the Republicans instead of just parroting the Republicans' failed ideas.

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Overall, maybe he wasn't as bad as the Republicans, but that particular speech was. If I read the speech, without knowing it was a Clinton speech, I would have just assumed it was a Republican speech.