I think it was first created during the Clinton administration.
May well have been. It’s so old, I don’t remember the first time I heard it.
Remember the string of Republican adulterers who were on the Clinton impeachment train? I’m pretty sure that was when the phrase was first spread.
I’ve never added anything to UrbanDictionary, but this might be sufficient motivation. Maybe the OED could pick it up.
It’s
OK
When
A
Republican
Does
It
I pronounce it “awkwardy”.
Heh. Yes, for that reason I like the “W” version. (Also for comments on the W Administration.) But apparently it’s less popular than the “I” version.
I have to assume there’s a corresponding IOWADDI out there.
Seriously? Democrats getting an automatic pass?
Not in this mediasphere, so far as I’ve ever seen.
On truth social, certainly. I’ve heard the basic argument, that we ignore bad stuff on our side. Which I don’t think is usually true, but sometimes true.
It would have to be something like:
NMWDDINO
No Matter What Democrats Do, It’s Never Okay
Well, yes, Truth Social users (all 59 of them) might well use some form of that accusation against Democrats. But they’d have to make stuff up, I suspect.
I mean, Democrats nearly always agree that when Dems do bad stuff they should pay the price. I didn’t hear anyone defending Robert Menendez, for example (the NJ Senator convicted of bribery etc.).
The Maine candidate with the Nazi tattoo IS still getting a defense, but of course there’s no question of it being a defense against indictment—there’s no crime involved. People just want to win that Senate seat, and they think they’ve got to have a straight white guy, no matter how iffy his past.
Sound about right (wing).
Al Franken was shitcanned for pretending to grope a sleeping woman.
It was more than that. Not enormously a lot more, but more. Franken was touchy-feely and crossed modern boundaries. Accusations of a few unwanted kisses or attempts at pressing kisses on others, boobs and butts lightly touched, a waist squeezed. He doesn’t seem to have been a slavering sleazebag. But he does seem to have been too handsy and familiar in a way that in these days would get you called down to HR and at least disciplined. Probably fired.
Franken now regrets resigning and said some of the accusations were false and some he remembers as happening differently. Which, sure, okay - it was never fully investigated. But there were more than just a couple of accusations and I’m not necessarily inclined to take Franken’s word. In the end I don’t think it was a bad thing he was pressured into falling on his sword. In the atmosphere of the day it probably set the right political message for the party, if not him personally.