Not all Republicans are on board. Conservative Ann Coulter wrote on Substack: “the idea that a crack-fueled roll in the hay entitles the mother to be treated like an honored member of the family is absurd.”
Focus group guru Frank Luntz, a Republican, cast the criticism as a personalization of politics with which he couldn’t get on board. He’s heard nothing from voters in his focus groups about the criticism facing the president over the issue of his grandchild.
“No one cares,” he said.
And a piece on The New Republic, a liberal publication, castigated the press, arguing Republicans would never be held to the same standard: “That is today’s real media bias. It’s a bias of expectations, and it always mitigates in favor of the people of whom nothing is expected in the first place.”
“Republicans have lost many of their core attacks against Biden as president. So it means that they need politically to develop more attacks on him as a person, as a father, or grandfather, because the attacks on him as president are becoming less effective,” longtime Democratic operative Simon Rosenberg said. “I’m not surprised to see greater investment or some of this ongoing obsessive investment of the Republicans trying to take him down as a man and as a dad and as a grandfather because it’s basically all they have.”
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/joe-biden/republicans-personal-attacks-biden-family-granddaughter-grandkid-rcna95667
Maureen Dowd is the matron D of republican boooolsheeeeeeiiiit. The righteous bitch of “conservatism.”
That said, I believe the circumstances of how the girl was conceived cannot zero out the fact she is a granddaughter, no matter who the mother is, so Joe must eventually find a way for her too. How this happens is the million dollar question, but it is inevitable. The pressure applied, though, is not helpful, but they don’t give a shit about her anyway. Joe is their target.
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