Does the Weiner distraction help Dems?

Mickey Kaus Columnist
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Is Weinergate such a crippling distraction for the Democrats? Sure, it gets in the way of their winning Medicare message. But why the need to hammer home that message now? The election’s a year and a half away.  If Democrats were smart, they’d want to lie low and give Paul Ryan encouragement, coaxing him out further on his limb before they saw it off next year, no? (That’s assuming they can keep Ryanesque anti-Medicare provisions out of the deficit deal, which should certainly be possible.) …

Mickey Kaus