WP editorial: "Paul Ryan's breathtakingly dishonest speech"

[Cosmocat]

10. a couple reasons

1) first, there was something about the sophomoric nature of Bush II that got the media wet in its britches. They so liked how he had pet names for them, and it was just big fun getting up on stage at the press corespondents dinner doing rap dancing with Karl Rove. Seriously, though, they got off in some way with Bush II that they just merrily got in line with the "he may be wrong, but he is believes in what he is doing" BS.

2) Even despite that, things were turning VERY quickly on him prior to 9-11. His popularity was falling fast, and he had made a number of gaffes that he was on track to be a one term president. But, then, 9-11, and the republican party rode THAT horse until it was dead and dead. Just enough to get him past 2004, and everyone know it, but it was such a good card the media could not allow it to not be played out.

3) As bad as Bush was, Romney has just totally give up even having the pretense of any consistency or even trying to pretend they care about lying. When it comes to republicans, they have to be bad, REAL BAD, for the media to call them out on stuff and this crew is THAT bad. Even at that, they get away with far more than they get called on, because the volume of their bullshit is so great, but that actually is part of their math. Go all in, get dinged every couple of times, but let the stuff that goes unchecked and even the stuff that gets called out have the negative effect they are looking for.