Stopped clocks
by digby
This is another example of Republicans having no capacity for empathy unless they've experienced something personally. Pirro is rightly upset that a prosecutor would flout the normal rules and inject himself into an election just days before voters cast their ballots. But clearly the only reason she's able to see the unfairness of this is because it literally happened to her.
To give her some credit, there are people like her who would find a way to defend Comey's actions even if it had happened to them, rationalizing that it's completely different because they didn't deserve it and Clinton does. But there is very little evidence that Pirro had her eyes opened generally about abuse of power. It's just that this very specific incident reminds her of her own experience.
It's very much like the Republicans who change their minds on gay rights when one of their kids comes out or who work for government funding for a particular disease once one of their own family members contracts it. They often cling to their ideology when the concerns of other people seem like mere abstractions to them. They can't even summon up the empathy for their constituents. It's only when they are literally personally affected that they can feel any empathy.
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