One of the easiest ways to tell that many in the mainstream media are consummate bubble dwellers is their steadfast inability to “read the room” when it comes to Republican voters. In their eyes, anyone with an “R” behind their name has automatically earned the unquestioning allegiance of right-leaning voters. Perhaps that’s how it works for Democrats and left-leaning voters, but conservatives can be a stubborn lot with a solid independent streak, and most on the right broke up with the GOP’s establishment wing a long time ago. CNN’s Dana Bash appears not to have gotten that memo, however.
Bash had Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) as a guest on Sunday morning’s “State of the Union” and laid out the case for why former Vice President Dick Cheney’s recently announced endorsement of Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris ought turn some heads on the right. Cotton…