In a recent comment by fellow Kossac, kovie, there is the suggestion that the GOP has begun to take up a new angle of rhetoric, in trying to create, to fabricate a broad and disfavoring story to damage President Obama's hopes for reelection - apparently, that's where it's headed.
I've seen it before. It's dirty politics - and, in regards to the social mechanism of it: Some "Privileged People" have been known to attempt that kind of self-serving and character-damaging nonsense, all the time. In however much that people may not check the facts, in making popular discourse, perhaps it would ever seem as if it was to "succeed," such character-damaging fabrications. If that, then, is what one would be said to "turn the other cheek" from, that's well enough by me. Facts of matters are generally not so open for dispute.
What it amounts to, speaking more objectively: It is a matter of the clever art of story-telling. To that, I can offer no further comment - except, perhaps, that the Kindle store has all sorts of books of fables and other stories (and reference materials, too) if one should be looking for a happy story to read, in regards to any symbolism of the political climate of the times.
I'm afraid that the symbol of a "wolf in sheep's clothing" may seem a little tired, these days. It comes to mind, but I am sure there are more original metaphors around, to appropriately characterize the political-strategic tactics of the GOP, hm?