Republicans spent much of the year portraying Barack Obama as a socialist and weak-kneed appeaser who would kowtow to America’s enemies.
Not anymore.
It’s been Republicans who’ve been heaping praise on Obama’s national security and economic teams — at times gushing more than even some Democrats. The GOP is finding little to criticize in Obama’s choices, defanged, in part, because their earlier charges of radicalism have been rendered inoperative by the individuals Obama has appointed…
This extreme role-reversal for the GOP also speaks to that party’s beleaguered fortunes — where its own economic and foreign policy ideology has been sharply rejected by voters. Republicans also say they must tread lightly for now in dealing with Obama, or risk looking like sore losers to an election-weary public.
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