Important Electoral Advice for the Left

When you’re so completely out of intellectual ammunition that you have to resort to flinging rhetorical poo by calling your opponents “racist”, “functionally retarded”, “way deeper into crazy land”, and part of the “axis of hysteria”, you might as well give up. The fight, if it ever was a fight, is over and now you’re just burning bridges you’ll need later to maintain that majority you worked so very hard to get.

See, folks don’t seem to mind if you call John McCain and Sarah Palin racists. They don’t even mind if you call “the right wing” racists because, to the average person who has been going to these protests, you’re talking about those other people. You know, the crazy ones.

Unfortunately, you let your ego run way ahead of your common sense. When you saw the first couple town hall protests you didn’t take a couple days to observe them and try to learn anything about them. No, you cast them as AstroTurf efforts by the health insurance industry — effectively branding every protester as a liar. You called them violent brownshirts, these crowds that included a healthy supply of moms with young babies and old folks with canes. You saw the protesters and you automatically thought they couldn’t possibly be real because how in the world could actual voters oppose such well-intentioned progressive government love? You reflexively insulted and dismissed them and now, instead of backing off and trying something new, you’re turning your message machine over to the likes of Janeane Garofalo.

Yeah, that’s all kinds of smart.

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