Leave it to Politico to describe a corruption indictment as a tragedy

[kpete]

http://www.politico.com/story/2014/01/bob-mcdonnell-virginia-indictment-scandal-102460.html?hp=t1_3


From Digby:

So he was a total phony. And a corrupt greedhead. There's no hint of tragedy in all that except for the Villagers who admired him so for his well-coiffed, "well-rounded" personality and his easy going style. They didn't want to look at the reality which was a man who changed personas like he changed his ties. The only consistency in him was ambition. And in second gilded age America, it doesn't take Woodward and Bernstein to go one step beyond that and look for signs of naked greed.

McDonnell ran as a right wing zealot and then changed into a centrist corporatist, which is the most soothing of all political trajectories among the Villagers. That's the trajectory that slaps the rubes of both parties square in the kisser. How great. They liked it so much that until fairly recently he was commonly seen as presidential material. And they don't have the excuse that he was from some far away state and they didn't know what he "really" was. He was, for most of them, their own Governor. They genuinely liked him a lot. That he turned out to be little more than a gifted conman makes them feel bad. And that's the real "tragedy" here --- Villager disappointment.

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2014/01/tragedy-in-village.html

[monmouth3]

1. She was as greedy as he was. Match made in heaven..n/t

[Roselma]

2. Andrea Mitchell just called it a

tragedy on her program. I guess the framing works.

[okaawhatever]

3. The real tragedy: The Republicans using the criminal as the victim meme again nt