"It is considered good moral and rational practice to hold your own team to the same standards of behavior (or maybe even higher standards) that you would demand from the other team."
I really, really wish this was true. Our politics would be so much healthier if people believed this. But they don't, and haven't for at least the last decade. Partisans will hold their own team accountable only when forced to do so, and only when it's obvious that it's a lost cause. If there's a chance that their candidate can still win, they'll overlook anything short of murder. (And maybe even that.)
It's very frustrating because there is little value in dumping on your own candidate. But I would like to see a little bit more self-awareness that they feel ashamed about it. I'd like to see them say "you know what, I'm just going to shut up over this one. It's too embarrassing to make a positive case for it."
Yes, we know that MattY has been on the record that outright lying is just fine for The Cause(TM).
My question is: do they think anybody really believes them, who didn't already fall in with the "Democrat = Good" equation.
One wonders who they are performing this bullshit for.
I also wonder why Maine Democrats didn't have anybody better to run.
I'm a NY Republican, so I understand how we ended up with George Santos. We were trying to get candidates for every race in NY, and Repubs are a bit thin on the ground in NY in certain areas. We don't have great vetting. But that was just a House seat. Not the Senate. Usually, we get relatively boring-ish people to run for that.
I am unfamiliar with Maine politics, but this is the best they could do for a Senate seat? Really?
"It is considered good moral and rational practice to hold your own team to the same standards of behavior (or maybe even higher standards) that you would demand from the other team."
I really, really wish this was true. Our politics would be so much healthier if people believed this. But they don't, and haven't for at least the last decade. Partisans will hold their own team accountable only when forced to do so, and only when it's obvious that it's a lost cause. If there's a chance that their candidate can still win, they'll overlook anything short of murder. (And maybe even that.)
It's very frustrating because there is little value in dumping on your own candidate. But I would like to see a little bit more self-awareness that they feel ashamed about it. I'd like to see them say "you know what, I'm just going to shut up over this one. It's too embarrassing to make a positive case for it."
Yes, we know that MattY has been on the record that outright lying is just fine for The Cause(TM).
My question is: do they think anybody really believes them, who didn't already fall in with the "Democrat = Good" equation.
One wonders who they are performing this bullshit for.
I also wonder why Maine Democrats didn't have anybody better to run.
I'm a NY Republican, so I understand how we ended up with George Santos. We were trying to get candidates for every race in NY, and Repubs are a bit thin on the ground in NY in certain areas. We don't have great vetting. But that was just a House seat. Not the Senate. Usually, we get relatively boring-ish people to run for that.
I am unfamiliar with Maine politics, but this is the best they could do for a Senate seat? Really?