The reason Conservative are targets in this is that they empatically state that if you do such, the result will always be so. In this case, as far as we know, such was always done, but so didn't turn out as expected. We hear absolutes are the key, yet gray areas are often found when an absoute doesn't fit a situation. We hear stand on the courage of your convictions, yet wiggle words and actions always seem to be found. The MSM will always point out and rub conservatives noses in situations since we often come off like church lady on SNL. They yuck it up when one of our absolutes blows up. And with good reason. For until it does, we are absolute about it. Then suddenly we need to find that place where compromise in our actions and words suddenly need to be found.
A friend and I often joke when this occurs. It falls under the class of "that's different" when it applies to us.