Outright character assassination. The same sort of abuse the Sarah Palin has been subjected to since the summer of 2008 when she was named as McCain’s VP pick.
I’m not talking about attacks on her experience or lack thereof or even her political views.
Calling her a C***, B****, saying her baby should have been aborted, saying her daughter is a slut while championing the no count gay porno mag posing dude who knocked her up. It’s the same as BDS (Bush Derangement Syndrome).
There is no rationalizing with an irrational mind. The same liberal elites who decried the HCUAA investigations as “hysteria” and a “witchhunt” now engage in a hysteria driven witchhunt of “teabaggers”. The madness of crowds has been well researched. The DUmasses are being manipulated. Tell them they are the “cool kids” and that it is okay to make fund of the “retards”. Obama, Kerry, and Clinton all were street protesting agitators yet now they decry anyone who would stand up to their agendas.
I don’t know where Sarah Palin or GW Bush found the strength to endure the attacks. I expect it as a Christian, the history of that goes back 2000 years. But this level of partisan smear via DNC/Media collusion is a recent turn of events. They seek to intimidate the voters who might oppose them at the polls.
Someone needs to ask Bill Clinton why he has returned to his tactic of the Politics of Personal Destruction.
I agree with much of what you wrote with one exception. They are not “irrational.”
They are behaving quite logically. They want power and will resort to any means to get it.
They should also ask Bill Clinton where his words of caution were when Bush was being excoriated and when Palin was being hung in effigy ETC.
Excellent post. These points need making again and again. Nicely put.