Whatever You Do, Don’t Call Them Angry
Ann Althouse linked to something over at Firedoglake which is pretty astonishing. Apparently they have a new nickname for Joe Lieberman. Rape Gurney Joe. (You really, really need to read all of Althouse's post to get the full flavor of this). Here's Althouse:
Well, what can I say? The label "Rape Gurney Joe" is so ugly that ordinary citizens will feel quite put off. I support abortion rights, but I dislike the heavyhanded political use of abortion to threaten those who have some moderate position. Surely, a willingness to accommodate the religious scruples of Catholic hospitals is not something that outrages ordinary people, even ordinary abortion rights supporters. Firedoglake says that Catholics — whose religion has caused them to devote so much hard work to providing medical care over the years — need to "get out of the fucking emergency medical business" because they want to follow their religion's teaching about contraception. That's going to sound bizarre and scarily angry to a lot of people.
Not that it's a good flavor. Vitriol doesn't taste so good. But don't call them angry or hateful. It makes them mad. Ann Althouse has it exactly right. Moderates who hear this kind of bile will be put off, and rightly so.
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By TC@LeatherPenguin, Thursday, 6 July , 2006 @ 4:54 pm
As I said in an earlier post here, these lunatics better destroy Lieberman in the primary, because if he wins he is gonna be after their asses, big time. He’ll be demanding the national Democrat party repudiates them or he’ll go full tilt Zell Miller.
By Gaius, Thursday, 6 July , 2006 @ 5:14 pm
Could very well happen.
By Shawn, Thursday, 6 July , 2006 @ 9:43 pm
I suspect that the election will show how much real pull the nutroots has. If it goes badly for their chosen candidates they will probably, as LeatherPenguin intimated, face the wrath of those who got the votes.