My Republican relative from western Kentucky posted this on facebook. Here's my response

[JHB]

22. This is what happens when you can't distinguish reality from fiction

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The manly man wore a white hat, rode a beautiful horse, and rode to the rescue BECAUSE THE SCRIPT SAID SO. Reality was ALWAYS messier than fiction. Storybook endings mostly happen in storybooks.

That doesn't mean you don't draw inspiration from stories, but you have to be able to recognize when the story teller is trying to make you go "boo-hiss".

There are perfectly regular reasons to not like Hillary Clinton (or Bill), but conservatives have spent 20 years throwing turdballs at them in hopes that some fleck will stick and they'll be able to use it to bring them down. and when they can't get it, when all the turdballs just slough off into an ever-larger mound at their feet, they point with alarm at the fogbank of steam rising off it and fret "Y'know, where there's smoke...".

But lazy "a pox on both sides" cynicism is the mark of, well, laziness.