yet we are happy to present them as facts and run with them
And this is different from normal politics - how?
nor have we forgotten how Clinton was treated by the liberal leaders too. We WON'T forget that either.
The conservatives were hypercritical of Hillary because she was a career woman and mother. Wanted to force her to take her man's name and admit she really wanted to be in the kitchen. And now conservatives want us to believe they're all about 'women's choices' and anyone who doesn't support their candidate is a 'hypocrite'?
Er, yeah.
at least we agree there is irony here.
Oh, plenty of it and from both sides. I get to read how Obama 'posed in front of his Caesar classical pillars and curtain' yet they don't mention Dubya doing the same thing years earlier. I get to read about how liberals are now 'hypocritical' because they're condemning a woman 'who made a choice' while completely ignoring the fact that the reason liberals condemn her is because she is ANTI-choice, not because of *her* particular choice. This was from my neo-conservative friends and they didn't see the difference. Liberals get to hear - yet again - that because they don't support a POW, they're unpatriotic. A 'family/traditional/abstinence only' candidate has an OOPS in the family with a knocked up 16 year old daughter which shows all too clearly the failure of her way of doing things, but she, her party and Obama all say her family is 'off-limits' to discussion. What they mean is 'off limits to criticism'. So they can parade their family on stage and in front of cameras to be flashed around the world - but, "uh uh uh, you can only say GOOD things about them".
You don't want bad things said about their family in public/in blogs? Get them off the stage. Sheesh.
Yep, plenty of irony and hypocrisy and special treatment to go around.