THIS is so typical of the repiglicans and tea-baggers, always the victims, always being attacked, always getting the short end of the stick, always being unfairly picked on, persecuted, prosecuted, and maligned. Quick, somebody call them a waaambulance!!! Poor things! I gladly pass this on from HuffPost, joining in the "abuse" of mitt robme, lyin' paul ryan and their cabal.....
Predictably, the Romney campaign and its apparatchiks at Fox News accused the Democrats of lacking "civility" during the first day of their convention. RNC chairman Reince Priebus called the Democrats "classless" for showing a 1994 video of Ted Kennedy debating (and embarrassing) a decidedly more liberal Mitt Romney.
Boo-hoo.
You know who shouldn't be lecturing the Democrats about civility? The
people who gave us swift-boating, the Southern Strategy, the outing of
Valerie Plame, Birthers, Reverend Wright videos around the clock, "Obama
pals around with domestic terrorists," the exploitation of 9/11,
comparing a triple amputee Vietnam veteran to Saddam Hussein, the booing of a gay soldier, and the party that sported Purple Heart band-aids
at the 2004 convention to mock another decorated Vietnam veteran, John
Kerry, who was wounded in combat. And no one on the floor of the
Democratic convention hurled peanuts at an African American camerawomen, shouting, "This is how we feed the animals."
Yes, the Democratic speakers unapologetically jabbed Romney for
having a Swiss bank account and for being a shameless prevaricator. They
criticized his policy proposals for being the usual Reaganomics
claptrap we've heard during every election and, accurately enough, how
the same policies caused the recession. There's a difference between
taking fair shots at an opponent and the reprehensible tactics routinely
exercised by the Republicans.
I totally get it: since the dawn of history, politics has always been
about rigorous debate, passionate arguments, salient framing and
rhetorical aggression. That's not incivility. That's politics. But the
Republicans always appear shocked whenever the Democrats bring their
A-game to political contest, and then they hilariously lean on this
well-worn "civility" crutch with full knowledge that the party's PR
wing, AM talk radio and Fox News Channel, has made a fortune in cash and
ratings by calling the president a communist, a traitor and a "little black man child."
The Democratic Party finally and thankfully stood up for its values
and, most noticeably, its position on social issues. The party was
unafraid to feature leaders from NARAL and Planned Parenthood on the
stage. Various speakers talked repeatedly about reproductive rights,
civil rights, LGBT rights and the role of government and how "we the
people" ought to lend a hand to those who have nowhere else to turn.
Core liberal values. Likewise, the party made it clear that Mitt Romney
and the Republicans are the enemy of these values. And they are. They've
pledged to repeal all of the advances in these areas upon arriving at
the White House. Last night, an actual undocumented worker named Benita
Veliz -- an illegal immigrant, the latest brand of "evildoer" -- spoke
at the convention. On top of that, right-wing lightning rod Sandra Fluke
spoke during prime time and thanked the Democrats for "amplifying" her
voice in spite of brutal attacks from Rush Limbaugh and others who not
only lied about her testimony to Congress but publicly and relentlessly
slandered her reputation for weeks, calling her a "slut."
Tell me again about civility, Republicans.
Frankly, I think this notion of taking a firm stand on core values
hit really close to home for the Republicans who've nominated a
candidate whose positions change by the day, interspersed with
universally debunked lies. Simply put: Romney and Ryan don't seem to
stand for anything -- you know, other than doing the exact opposite of
President Obama.
On the same day when American voters were talking about powerful speeches from the First Lady and Julian Castro, The Nation reported
that the increasingly shaky and awkward Paul Ryan actively lobbied the
Obama administration for money from Obamacare, specifically for a
community healthcare center in Racine. The Affordable Care Act provides
$9.5 billion for health centers and $1.5 billion for a series of brand
new centers, and Paul Ryan wanted a piece of the action while demonizing
Obamacare's "reckless spending" and how it's a "government takeover."
We've heard this before. Ryan also requested money from the dreaded
stimulus while voting against it and while using it as a cudgel to
utterly skull-bash the president's agenda.
But I suppose I'm not being civil by pointing out Ryan's obvious lack
of integrity, say nothing of the top of the ticket whose home planet
eradicated integrity centuries ago while purging itself of emotions and
authenticity during the final epoch of the Alpha Centauri Interstellar
Conundrum.
So the contrast between a strong Democratic Party and a flaky,
unstable, flip-floppy Republican Party has prompted the GOP to spend the
week whining and pooping its big boy pants about how the Democrats are
being so mean. For a Republican Party dependent upon lies and intellectual dishonesty, the truth really hurts.
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