Partisanship is a very, very unusual thing. Not an uncommon thing, alas, but an unusual thing. When you stop to think about it. Most people don't.
It seems like every night, Jon Stewart is railing against Fox News concerning their massive narrative shift after Obama's Inauguration. You juxtapose a few clips of Bill O'Reilly calling the Tea Party protestors patriots with a few clips of Bill O'Reilly calling anti-war protestors unpatriotic. Laughs ensue. Etc. While I may lean left, I do think it is a shame that we don't have somebody comparing quotes from insurgent Democrats in 2004 to quotes from entrenched Democrats in 2010. Perhaps they are doing that sort of thing on Fox News. I wouldn't know anything about that.
But what is one to do when one finds that same narrative switch in themselves? This is the question I hope to touch on here. I am having some trouble wrapping my head around it. I do not think I could possibly do it full justice. This is only my best, first attempt. A scratching of the surface.
I would like to do this by focusing on two senate candidates, four years apart, shunned by their respective political parties and forced to go it alone.
