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Friday, June 17, 2005
Instapundit
has some notes on Durbin's idiocy about Nazi guards at Guantanamo. Among other things, it is noted that Trent Lott lost his leadership position for similarly idiotic comments. But Durbin won't fall. Here's why:
While we rightly credit Josh Marshall and a few others on the left for keeping the Trent Lott story alive when the media was busy with other things, it's not Marshall that brought Lott down. If Josh Marshall could sink Republican leaders, Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz, not to mention Bush, would have been gone long ago.
What did Trent Lott in was when National Review types and other conservative/libertarian commentators, including the right-leaning blogosphere, piled on. Having the opposition mad at you can be tedious. It's when your base is embarrassed enough by you to send you packing that you're truly finished.
Republicans embarrass much more easily than Democrats. Dick Durbin could accuse our soldiers of making the Guantanamo prisoners play Barbies in an effort to destroy their manhood and half his party would go, "Dude, those Republicans really are evil!" The other half would know it was over the top but consider it all right as long as it hurt Bush. That's why Durbin will stay in the Democratic leadership.
It's also why his party will stay in the minority.
posted by gbarto at 11:12 PM
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