re: #204 Targetpractice

Leaning towards “just stupid.” The woman’s foreign policy experience could fit on a business card.

It’s not stupid. Kelly Ayotte represents a New Hampshire, and she’s voted repeatedly to raise the debt ceiling and to end the shutdown, and I believe she voted for the repeal of DADT. But that being so, she still needs to take potshots at Obama to maintain her street cred with a state party base that is not rabid but still passionately dislikes Barack Obama. The potshots don’t have to hit, she just has to take them.

Many here will call that dysfunctional, and it is, but its also fairly normal in politics. As long as it does not exceed a certain threshold, that kind of ritual cursing of the other side isn’t problematic; Kelly Ayotte is well within the bounds of that threshold.