Brian's Summer of Disillusionment:

Brian’s Summer of Disillusionment

Y’know, for a hard bitten two fisted city beat columnist, Brian McGrory is surprisingly naïve.
And not in a good way either.
Take today’s column for example after months of outright gubernatorial neglect, cupidity, and ineptitude, Brian finally timorously takes Romney to task for spending most of the summer in pursuit of higher office.
Brian kinda shuffles his feet and mumbles in a frightened tone to the effect that maybe his pal Mitt ought to take care of something in Massachusetts before becoming Senator, Homeland Secretary, or President.
This is the second time in three months that McGrory has been forced to own up to the shortcomings of a so called GOP “centrist”.
Frankly, Brian has no one to blame but himself, time after time he was warned that Messr’s Bush and Romney were fanatics and ideologues of the first rank. McGrory would have nothing of it, preferring to accept on face value all their bullshit about moderation and “governing from the center”.
I don’t doubt that McGrory isn’t a neocon of some type (Which I define as someone with a vast and poorly articulated rage against a chimera called monolithic liberalism)…he is heartily welcome to his own opinion.

It is his lack of journalistic skepticism that appalls me.

Time after time Brian is unwilling or incapable of second guessing anyone he identifies as a “GOP moderate”…ergo someone who “liberal” on civil liberties and tight with a buck.
Generally the punditariat tends to mark out hard for politicians like that…it is McGrory’s downfall that he consistently takes these charlatans at face value.
Why?
I don’t know…frankly I think the whole two-fisted city beat columnist thing is a cliché’ that was old back in the days of Mickey Spillane.
I think Brian needs to go back to the bullpen and lay off the op-ed stuff for awhile. He is just too damn credulous for comfort.