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In reply to the discussion: How did a group dedicated to discussion regarding a Democratic POTUS, on an ostensibly ... [View all]JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)... with the fact that their efforts to get a primary challenge of President Obama failed miserably, and then he won re-election.
Before the 2012 election, they had to dial it back some ... DU TOS and all. But now that the President can't run again ... they're free to turn the outrage meter up to 11, and beyond.
The last straw for some of them was Syria ... see, they'd whipped themselves into a frenzy because they were sure we'd be invading Syria at any moment, and THEN ... THEN ... everyone would realize that their calls for a primary were RIGHT. Obama, with no threat of a future election, would show his true PNAC colors.
It would be the proof they'd needed for so long. The invasion of Syria was going to be the vindication they'd been waiting for. Everyone would wish we had a primary challenge of Obama.
And then ... the Syria invasion didn't happen.
Now, they are upset because it had been Obama supporters (aka. the BOG to them) who had told them that their hair was on fire about an invasion that was never going to happen. That the President was not about to start another Iraq style war in Syria.
But they had doubled and tripled down. They'd reached an anger level equal to what it would have been if he HAD actually invaded Syria.
That anger and frustration had to go somewhere.