Dem/Rethuglican scandal contrast - why we can't get tracking...

[HardWorkingDem]

Has anyone noticed when it comes to scandals being drawn out, there is a very stark contrast between Dems and Rethuglicans: complexity.

Understanding an illicit BJ in the Whitehouse or supposedly getting money from a corrupt land deal is easy to understand, but more importantly, even easier to illustrate an understandable narrative.

But when it comes to frigging rethuglican scandals, on their faces, it appears they are more complex, therefore harder for the mainstream press to illustrate and for the American people to follow. Also, the more complex the scandal, the more it is unlikely to fit in a two minute electronic news piece.

Take the coin scandal in Ohio. Or all of Bush's business deals. And now Frist is involved in a 630 million dollar settlement.

The best metaphor I can use is that at first these scandals are found in a pond with clear water and then when people start examining them, those involved in the scandal get in there and stir the sediment up clouding the water and those looking give up because it just takes too much effort to find the scandal again.

[napi21]

1. It's a good analagy, but the good side is there are so many of them.

I don't think it takes a lot of thinking, understanding, or explaination for everyone to conclude that "where there's smoke, there's fire". One muddied problem can get burried in the muck and mire, but when there's 5 or 10 scandals all at the same time, most people will make the leap that there's a big problem with the whole party!

[zbdent]

2. We're better equipped to understand more complex issues

while much of the ones drawn in by Repuke mongering have the attention span which requires bumper-sticker solutions . . .

[HardWorkingDem]

3. Sadly.....

that crowd is the crowd who keeps voting at better clips than Dem supporters and thus, part of our problem.