LOL!! The assault on DeLay has been never-ending, since his indictment. Surely you're not saying that it got worse after he won his primary, are you?
I was not "sucked in" by anybody, bub. You don't have to go overboard trying to explain away what is, essentially, a mistake by DeLay.
I'm saying the attacks escalated once the dems wounded, but didn't destroy him. They saw his popularity plummet after their relentless assault and smelled blood in the water. Once he won the primary (with all time low numbers), you bet the attacks escalated. And the very fact that you don't know that to be true proves that you haven't followed DeLay's press coverage well, or don't know shiite.