That is how the partisan mind works, BB. It uses a completely different set of mental/emotional filters according to whom it is reacting to. It judges things first by who is doing them and saying them...not nearly so much by what is being done and said.

That happens on this forum a lot too, on a personal level as well as on a partisan level. That is, people carry personal grudges here...so they will jump on something said by one of their favorite "enemies" and immediately take offense at it by interpreting it in the worst way possible...but if one of their friends had said it, then they'd have interpreted it from a far more positive angle...probably even applauded.

And the truth? Well, the truth may lie somewhere between the extremes of reaction and counter-reaction to the habitual trigger points that most people seem to rely upon most of the time.