Posted on 07/30/2013 1:15:20 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
the way much of it has now turned on Weiner? Thats the question asked by a commenter at this post about The New Yorkers new cover mocking Weiner.
My answer, in a nutshell, is no.
After all, there is no real cost to turning on Weiner. The election is not a national event. No one seemed to like Weiner all that much to begin with; perhaps the only people getting thrills up the leg about him might have been a few of his sext partners. Weiners misbehavior was sexual and simple to conceptualize, and most especially it was not political in nature (except for the over-arching issue of lying). Those who supported Weiner earlier and excused his personal failingsoncecould rest easy in knowing that had shown them to be personally magnanimous. They had given him another chance, he blew it, and now by turning on him theyre showing they have morals and standards. Win/win.
And besides, his offenses had nothing to do with politics or policy. Abandoning Weiner now threatens no particular political or theoretical belief system of his previous supporters, and helps them look righteous and even-handed. And it doesnt hurt that his activities lend themselves quite easily to mockery; the double-entendres just keep coming (oops!).
Nor is there any racial angle with Weiner; hes Jewish, and therefore not of a protected group.
Obama is very different. For him, the press has compromised every ideal it professes to have. His sins are not personal, they are political abuses of power, and the abuses of power are for the most part in furtherance of the agenda of the left. For supporters and press to turn on him now would mean a re-organization of their much more basic belief system and perhaps even their politics. Even worse than that, it could mean saying the right was right about Obama all the time. That would be most threatening of all.
No, the only way the liberal press would ever really turn on Obama would be for not being leftist enoughfor joining the conservative enemy, as it were. And although there were moments of that with Obamas policies on Guantanamo, drones, and NSA spying (all of which involved him appearing, in the eyes of liberals and the left, to be too much like Bush in fighting Islamic terrorismeven though Obama refused to call it that), the Obama-dike of the MSM held.
Its hard to imagine anything else that could ever threaten it.
I’m convinced there is NOTHING he could do that would make them turn on him. NOTHING. He could strangle his own daughters on the white house lawn and they’d say, so what?
Look at what he’s done and they’ve got NOTHING to say about any of it.
Nope, live boys, dead girls, roasted puppies, we are stuck with him for the next 3 years; we very well may never recover.
And I love, love, love how they are lining up to crown Hillary! as the next president.
Think how great it will be to have Bill Clinton back in the WH, with nothing but time on his hands.
Sheesh, we better find somebody good to run this time. And no, it’s not that fat cow Christie.
Back in the 80's it was a joke.
My answer, in a nutshell, is no. After all, there is no real cost to turning on Weiner. The election is not a national event. No one seemed to like Weiner all that much to begin with; perhaps the only people getting thrills up the leg about him might have been a few of his sext partners. Weiners misbehavior was sexual and simple to conceptualize, and most especially it was not political in nature (except for the over-arching issue of lying)... Nor is there any racial angle with Weiner; hes Jewish, and therefore not of a protected group. Obama is very different. For him, the press has compromised every ideal it professes to have. His sins are not personal, they are political abuses of power, and the abuses of power are for the most part in furtherance of the agenda of the left. For supporters and press to turn on him now would mean a re-organization of their much more basic belief system and perhaps even their politics. Even worse than that, it could mean saying the right was right about Obama all the time.
But seriously...maybe, JUST MAYBE some will turn on him when their friends are thrown into re-education camps for writing a slightly critical article about il Duche.
When that happens, they'll either TURN on him or they'll become even more devoted bootlickers.
Either “O” goons will have come after you at home or U.S. enemies will have delivered the coup de gras ... and it won't matter any more.
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