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I've said it ad nauseum, so tune me out if the nausea wins, but Tweety was raised in a Rethug family, reinforced by Catholic school regimen, of the sort that there are "nun's pets" and "the smart one in the class" label. He was prime for kissing ass.
And in the hothouse of D.C., flunkies (which he was) gain their own power and prestige by the success rate of their bosses. He was flying high when CARTER and O'NEILL were on top. When RAYGUN beat the pants off of those two, Tweety the Flunky regrouped and figured out that RAYGUN had been SUCCESSFUL against his old bosses. The last time Tweety was identifiably a Dem was circa 1988 when Hardball (the book) was published.
After that, his flunky worship of RAYGUN grew. He slid into G.E.RUSSETT's orbit, who had paved the way for reconstruction of "Liberal bleeding heart" and who reached out to LIMBOsevic. He mentored Tweety, weaning him away from Dem partisanship, ostensibly for media "objectivity".
Tweety began doing episodes with him walking arm in arm with Nancy RAYGUN, yapping praise for RAYGUN.
Years ago he said he had stopped being a Dem, said to a guest, "Oh. You're STILL a Dem, more of a Dem than I am." Yeah, he voted for KERRY after voting against GORE. His one vote is nothing compared to the daily damage he does to all Dems five days per week. But the upside is that he has a tiny audience, and, actually, we Dem junkies here are probably the largest part of his audience.
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