American History

The media just loves it when republicans make of crap and accuse democrats of... whatever. They just love to put democrats on the defensive and make them answer wild accusations instead of talking about actual issues.

Republicans pretty much have a freeroll in this. They can't lose. They either successfully smear an opponent or derail Democratic momentum, or it's a draw that accomplishes little to nothing, but costs them nothing either.

They pretty much never pay a price for making accusations, even when they're blatantly lying or grossly exaggerating.

I'm beating a dead horse by this point with Hillary's emails, but the real scandal there was always the Republican abuse of congressional investigative powers to smear a political opponent based on an obvious non-crime. They had no probable cause of any wrongdoing.

But in the end, it worked. Hillary was kept out of the White House and her career was over; and her corrupt, partisan accusers are just continuing on their merry way.

Somehow the media wasn't interested in the story right in front of them, and chose to completely buy into the Republican frame, even though an indictment against Hillary was a fantasy while the misconduct of republicans was obvious.

Tan suit.

How many republicans paid any price at all for wasting everyone's time and effort whining about such nonsense?