Your Librul Media
Mar 28th, 2008 at 7:25 am by Susie
Now Matt, if you think really hard, you might be able to come up with the common denominator in all your examples:
Why do some political missteps haunt their candidates forever, while others are easily put to rest? John Kerry saying he voted for the war before he voted against it, or Howard Dean screeching on a stage in Iowa, instantly becomes the stuff of political history, but when George W. Bush admits that he was once arrested for driving under the influence, it immediately fades into obscurity. Some politicians, as they used to say of Ronald Reagan, seem coated in Teflon, while others seem covered in Krazy Glue, unable to shake the stickiness of what seem like minor embarrassments.
Sometimes it’s really hard to figure out whether people like Matt Bai are conspirators or merely simpletons.