James Taranto at The Wall Street Journal assembled another example in the "Two Columnists in One!" on Friday, this one on a complete partisan double-standard by New York Times columnist Gail Collins, who spent six years (2001-2007) in charge of the Times editorial page, the first woman to have the gig.
It seems that experience and advanced age are good qualities this year...but not in 2008, when Barack Obama was the inexperienced youth in the race.
“Remember how we used to joke about John McCain looking like an old guy yelling at kids to get off his lawn? It’s only in retrospect that we can see that the keep-off-the-grass period was the McCain campaign’s golden era.”—Gail Collins, New York Times, October 10, 2008.
“The Republican field is packed with people like first-term senators Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, both 44. Or Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin, a 47-year-old who has bragged that he could put off running for another 20 years ‘and still be about the same age as the former secretary of state.’ The obvious response to that is: good idea. . . . Would you rather have a president with a lot of experience or one with new ideas? . . . We’re electing a new leader to pilot our ship. Do we care more about quick reflexes or a seasoned response to crises?”—Gail Collins, New York Times, June 4, 2015.
To some of us, Collins is best remembered as the Romney-dog-story obsessive.
Don't miss the majority of Taranto's daily Best of the Web roundup, as he makes some insightful points about how Democrats always play the "gender gap" one way...and ignore when Republicans have a broad advantage among men (as they do in early Hillary polling).
