Kos Spins Mass. Senate Campaign: ‘Teabaggers’ Doom Scott Brown?
Posted on | January 13, 2010 | 19 Comments
Jumping in Pools gives this spin a thorough fisking, but here’s just a taste of Kos in whistle-past-the-graveyard mode:
Brown has been caught in a vice. His support from teabaggers was critical to becoming competitive . . .
On the other hand, that conservative support has come at a cost. . . . The teabaggers demand ideological purity, and he’s had to deliver. . . .
That interpretation is nonsense, of course. I hashed this out yesterday: It’s Massachusetts, and Brown’s conservative supporters understand that. Nobody expects Scott Brown to vote like Jim DeMint or Tom Coburn.
Acceptance of the Kos spin requires a false perception of “teabaggers” and other conservatives as rigid, irrational, ill-informed fanatics. It also requires a severe misunderestimation of how broad-based the anti-Obama backlash really is, as Ed Morrissey says: “Democrats in Massachusetts appear demoralized, independents are fleeing, and it’s the GOP that has the energy at the moment.”
At least none of those dangerous “teabaggers” have started shoving around reporters, eh, Kos?

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