Everyone knows that winning the assignment of officially responding to a State of the Union speech can be a curse, not a blessing. But it depends on which party is responding.
Last year, the media ripped apart freshman Republican Senator Katie Britt of Alabama as a ditz. PBS analyst Jonathan Capehart made a “Legally Blonde” joke: “After watching Senator Britt, I am just sitting here thinking what in the Elle Woods was that?” Actress Scarlett Johansson mocked her on “Saturday Night Live” as “auditioning for the part of Scary Mom.”
This year, the Democrats picked freshman Democrat Senator Elissa Slotkin of Michigan. NPR political analyst Domenico Montanaro gushed it was the best official rebuttal since Democrat Sen. Jim Webb in 2007. She’s “so natural” and hits “common-sense notes”! “It can resonate”!
No one in the media will take…
