When they want to damage their opposition, they float a word or phrase that starts in the farthest reaches of the blogoshpere which then works its way into the mouths of activists, media allies, debate moderators and politicians.
It works like magic. Just ask any Obama voter where they first heard the term “war on women” and watch them struggle to answer. Hmm… was it the Huffington Post? The Daily Kos? ABC News? Obama?
The new whisper campaign aims to re-write history and paint conservatives as “Confederates” or “members of the confederacy.”...
I think the point is well-taken. The teabaggers DO represent all of the hatred of social programs, racism and ignorance of the old Confederacy... They've been playing dog-whistle politics ever since Obama took office, and STILL lay awake at night stewing over "Why is that black man in my White House?"
Whisper?...He11 no... I think it should be shouted at every teabagger meeting. Sort of a "Truth in Advertising" campaign for the 53% that still think the 47% are nothing but "lazy" "takers"...
Wouldn't it be better to compare them to the Democrats of the 1960's who would have voted down LBJ's civil rights legislation if it hadn't been for the GOP rescuing it?
Dixie-crats? Strom Thurmond, George Wallace, Robert Byrd, Al Gore Sr.
The Confederates were against tariffs that protected northern manufacturing but raised prices on American consumers.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
Still trying to sell that "Conservative Revisionist History of Civil Rights"?...
Why would it be "better to compare" 50-year-old history to what is the current state of affairs today? Can't deal with the reality of today's teabaggers, so when it suits you, you want to go back and try to sell that revisionist garbage from 50 years ago?
I think the point is well-taken. The teabaggers DO represent all of the hatred of social programs, racism and ignorance of the old Confederacy... They've been playing dog-whistle politics ever since Obama took office, and STILL lay awake at night stewing over "Why is that black man in my White House?"
Whisper?...He11 no... I think it should be shouted at every teabagger meeting. Sort of a "Truth in Advertising" campaign for the 53% that still think the 47% are nothing but "lazy" "takers"...