Zimmerman should write a book on how to become a right wing idol.
1. Shoot a black kid.
2. Beat your girlfriends and wives.
3. Try to become a cop and fail.
4. Sexually assault your younger cousin.
It's kinda easy.
Idol may be too strong a word.
It's sort of the whole Sandra Fluke thing; both are someone who we'll [likely] never meet, never meet anyone who knows them, only know them from the utterly few words and utterly brief appearances in public and we draw these monsterous conclusions about them based on political ideology.
You can throw Trayvon Martin into that mix as well. "Just as every cop is a criminal and all those sinners are saints" as the song goes.
I don't know Ms. Fluke and would likely find her annoying if I knew her personally. Feminist activists don't seem to have an "off" switch and too much of anything is maddening no matter what personality you like in moderation. But I put her as my avatar to draw the reaction that has come in spades... The right wing seems to be given to extremes in support based on the smallest nuggets of evidence and it's fun to watch...and bewildering at the same time....who they embrace instantly or castigate instantly due to what a talking head says on their radio program or writes in their blog.
I heard one time that if you were to get Army Ants to march in a circle, they would do so until they die from exhaustion since the ant in front of them doesn't stop...I wonder what would happen if we could get the right wing to march in that circle wearing a sign on their back that says "Rush says don't stop".
Hmmm....