Interesting. I think I only ever heard the term in context with politicians that that were elected "too many times" by someone's standard. There, it certainly i

Interesting. I think I only ever heard the term in context with politicians that that were elected "too many times" by someone's standard. There, it certainly isn't meant positively -- the funny thing is that this goes rather well with the phrase mentioning Angela Merkel at the beginning of the article. There are more and more voices now that would prefer someone new taking her post.