Why Is the GOP Slacking on Oppo Research?

Oh where have you gone, Republican “oppo” (opposition) researchers?

As dozens of Democratic presidential hopefuls begin to test the waters with their party’s primary voters, many of them are finding those waters filled with piranhas.

Amy Klobuchar is a senator from the North Star State who dipped her toe in and CHOMP. Stories about her brutalizing staffers were promptly released and did significant damage.

No more Ms. Minnesota Nice Guy for Klobuchar. She’s now the wicked witch of Minneapolis. She recently bragged to a crowd of college students that she had carried Michelle Bachmann’s congressional district and then had to prod them, “That’s when you guys are supposed to cheer.”

Reporter John McCormack likened it to hopeless Jeb Bush’s infamous “please clap” moment.

A similar thing has happened to many fellow Democrats. Joe Biden is now “Creepy Uncle Joe” for his wandering hands. Elizabeth Warren is now not just someone who played up family lore about Native American ancestry, she arguably lied about it to the Texas State Bar.