Wednesday, December 5, 2018

NY Post - Michael Goodwin: Democrats really do love Republicans — when they’re dead - "They discover virtues in men they never supported only to use them as a cudgel against Trump"



John McCain and George H.W. Bush
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He was a patriot, a hero, a ­genial gentleman and a great American. You can’t pick up a newspaper or go near a television without hearing leftists gush with praise for the late President George H.W. Bush. Who knew they felt this way?
And you are not mistaken if the outpouring of previously unknown affection for the first President Bush sounds familiar. That’s because it is almost identical to the loving send-off the same suspects gave Sen. John McCain after he died in August.
It all just goes to prove that Democrats and their media handmaidens really do love Republicans — when they’re dead. All the more so if, when they were alive, they ­opposed President Trump. ...