He’d be attacked here to if the GOP wing on FR wasn’t sure they’d rife lightning.
He was attacked over the (Obama-Reid) shutdown and the all night speech by some freepers.
There is a logic to voting against the person you don’t want by voting for the opposition candidate in a two party system. That way, the median trend goes away from the hated candidate and gives more credibility to those that hold views that oppose those of the more evil candidate.
Democracy is really only functional for throwing out rotten people (sometimes). There’s not much evidence that many uniquely qualified leaders have ever been elected.