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(45,251 posts)On Demand showed Along Came Jones a while back, an old Western with Gary Cooper (Melody Jones) and Loretta Young in the leads and Dan Duryea(?) as the villain with whom Loretta Young is in love---until (spoiler alert!)
she, of course, falls for Cooper. (alert: more spoilers follow).
At one point, Cooper shoots in the direction of the villain, but the villain lives. Loretta Young concocts this convoluted story in her mind how Cooper tried to kill the villain, but missed. Later, she tells it to Jones (Cooper). Jones then picks up a gun and does some very fancy, very accurate shooting. He says something like, "That's just to show you, when I am at something; I hit it and, when I hit something, it's because I aimed at it."
I don't remember why Cooper's character pretended to be trying to kill the villain. In fact, I don't remember much from that movie beyond the above. It was a sweet enough movie from another era, not a great one or a very memorable one. Nonetheless, the scene described above taught me a valuable life lesson.
Anyway, faithful Democratic voters sometimes seem to me like Loretta Young in this movie, concocting all kinds of reasons and rationalizations for why their elected officials behave as they do However, sometimes, Democratic politicians, like Melody Jones, are hitting exactly what they aim at.
But, for one reason or another, they make it seem as though they are trying to kill the villain, but somehow missing. Again. And again. And again. At this point, they don't even have to try all that hard. Todays Loretta Youngs mop up after the fact.