It's always been about the "cult of personality" with them. There's always some exalted figure - pol, author, film maker, commentator, what have you - who they put on a pedestal and worship as the Destroyer Of Republicans and Savior Of The Republic. How many times have we seen, "Did you see so-and-so on (insert talking head show here)?!" or "Read so-and-so's new book! Bush is soooooo toast!", followed by a level of gushing adoration heretofore only seen from 12-year-old girls at a Backstreet Boys concert.
When the individual in question turns out to be mortal after all, and thus relatively insignificant in the grand scheme of things, they simply forget them and move on to to the next Idol-Of-The-Week and the cycle starts anew.
And they have the nerve to call us "sheep".
