You’re arguing against two valid points, when in fact, you’re both correct.
I agree with both viewpoints. However, one thing that really cranks me about all the insightful and brilliant columns and essays coming out of people like Krauthammer, Hume, Will, Kristol et al giving us something they think we will see as new and incredible.
We’ve seen it all along. We saw it before they did, actually. For years, these pundits sat around their offices and on Sunday TV panels, on Fox Nightly - mostly discussing the latest Obama-this or Obama-that in a calm manner as the only problem with him is this one single “this” or “that”. All calmly speaking of Obama as a legitimate, qualified President when they should have been shouting other wise from the rooftops years before now.
I’m past them - don’t really need them to sort-of validate what I think. I’m not interested in the norm and protocols of polite political punditry and the personal trappings and benefits that go with.
It isn’t loyal (but-not-too-vocal) opposition I want, and these problems we have now with this Administration and its ilk aren’t polite disagreement. They are about the destruction of this country, or its salvation. These guys should have been acting like it years ago.