Lawrence O’Donnell on MSNBC was so upset about this the other night. He was talking about Wilson being a big fundraising draw with such disdain in his voice, as if he thinks that Wilson planned it out this way. I wanted to yell at the screen and tell him that it was the Democrats who created the hero - if they’d have just left it alone, it would have been over the night of the SoTU speech. But NO, they had to make a big deal of it and declare Joe Wilson as public enemy number one.
The Dims desperately needed a distraction from their health care debacle. Wilson provided what they thought would be that distraction, but it didn't quite work out they way they'd planned. Look for more distractions in the near future....