This coming from the guy who mocked her eyes on election night.
I will say this - there’s a weird phenomenon amongst the left, where they will demonize, and then come to hold a strange respect for those they view as an unapologetic hardliner. It happened with Reagan, it happened with Ariel Sharon. Ron Paul is getting some of that action while in office, which is also odd.
It happened with Reagan, it happened with Ariel Sharon
/// true. i agree.
but, it happened over many YEARS, not weeks.
and it happened because they EARNED a grudging respect, by ACTIONS, and integrity.
...not overnight from a single debate.
no, this is something else. i don’t know what, but the “Romney stalking horse” theory at least fits the facts.
it works in reverse too. i’ve seen many people here, admit a grudging respect for Kucinich. he may be a crazy liberal, but, he seems to have an intregrity that others lack. like his recent quoting the constitution and slamming Obama over Libya and the War Powers Act.
...but again, this is a process of long observation.
not overnight.
...and this isn’t just Matthews. earlier today, someone posted an article from the Brookings Institute, gushing over Bachmann almost as much as Matthews.
(maybe similar words...? like their old “Journolist” group?) ...it’s strange. and i don’t really care, because i honestly like Cain better than Romney or Bachmann, because i think he understands the dangers of Islam better, AND he’s got better real-world experience to fix the economy.