I would suggest to the folks at the Daily Beast to pack up and drive a car around Iowa, Kansas, and Ohio. Go to some small towns and talk to regular people. The attitude since 2008....has changed. Folks had expectations in 2008, and nothing came out of them. The Daily Beast might be shocked at how society isn’t reading their material.
The Left always shouts the welfare state will be endangered by a Republican victory.
Talk about crying wolf! Like Ike of an earlier generation, the liberal Mittens will be a good steward of the welfare state.
The Michael Tomaskys of the world need not fret about its impending demise.
Same thing happened at the Duluth News Tribune. Endorsed Romney despite the editor who is ultra liberal, a fawning Obama supporter, and black.
I would have LOVED to be a fly on the wall of his office when his bosses (Forum Communications) told him what they were gonna do.
“I didn’t get my way! Boo hoo! I always get my way! Always! It must be a joke because I don’t like it! boo hoo hoo”
Everyday, it is becoming clearer to me that any public policy actor engaging in the kind of “bad faith” communications regularly employed by the American Left, can not be usefully engaged.