I just don’t remember the press campaigning or slandering sitting Senators in the past (pre-Obama). Am I wrong?
You mean like ones who murdered their secretary by drowning or others who were recruiters for the Ku Klux Klan or the Keating Five? No, they won’t touch those.
They hated Jesse Helms but they never really campaigned to get rid of him. Just always insinuated that he was racist, homophobe, etc, et al, etc, et al.....