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I don't think a Republican governor helping Obama's reelection campaign in 2012 would have been quietly accepted.
There would have been a vocal minority on the right wing pissing and moaning about it on fox, but I don’t think the expectation would be that this hypothetical governor would deliberately obstruct.
Yeah I was referring to the hemming and hawing from the sidelines, especially from the birther crowd in Congress and right-wing media.
Easy to ignore if you just don’t consider right wing media to be news 🤷🏻♂️
Quietly? Probably not. (Tan suit and all that.) But those are very different times. Remember when McCain defended Obama in one of his (McCain's) town halls? That's the level of decorum that's been lost.
Right, but the fact that it was noteworthy in the news cycle then that McCain had that level of decorum against his own voting base is what I was speaking to. DeWine came out with tact and decorum to handle this non-issue, too. Voters back then were hanging and burning Obama in effigy.
Freaking lunatics.